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KICHARD TALBOT, AECHBISHOP AND CHANCELLOR 



(141S-1449V 



By JOHN HENRY BERNARD, D.D.. D.C.L., 

 Lord Archbishop of Dublin. 



Reui Jaxi AKT 13. PaViiilie4 Makch 29, 1919. 



RiCHAKD Talbot, who became Archbishop of Dublin in 1418, was the younger 

 son of Richard, fourth Baron Talbot, by his wife Ankret le Strange. The 

 Talbot family, one of the oldest and most illustrious in England, were 

 established at Goodrich, near Hereford, in I •126, when an earlier Richard Talbot 

 married Elizabeth de Comyn, heiress of Goodrich Castle (in right of her 

 mother, daughter of Aylmer de Valence, earl of Pembroke). 



The first appearance of the future Archbishop is iu connexion with 

 ecclesiastical prefennent in the diocese of Hereford. It was the habit of the 

 age to provide for State officials and members of great families by appointing 

 them, although they might be only in minor orders or even laymen, to Church 

 l»enef5ces; and the Talbot family influence was used lo secure many Hereford- 

 shire prefenneuts for the younger son. The date of his birth is not known, 

 but he was probably a minor, as he was certainly a layman, when he was made 

 Portionist of Middleconrt in Bromyani ( hutch on 22nd October, 1399, and 

 Canon and Preljendarj- of PutJ^on Major in Hereford Cathetlral on 6th June, 

 HOI.' On 24th January, 1404, l»eing by this time also rector of l.udlow. Talbot 

 received a dispensation for absence for one year, to study ; and, six days later, 

 letters dimissory to be ordained to all orders. He did not, however, proceed 

 elsewhere to more than minor orders, for he was only ordained deacon in 

 Hereford Cathedral, on 26th March, 1407. Next month (April 26tli) he 

 became Portionist of Overhall in Ledbur)' Church. In the following July 

 he exchanged his rectory of Ludlow for the Precentorship of Hereford. As 

 Precentor he had a canonical residence house, which was probably his home 

 for some time. In 1410, being now styled liach. uiriusque Juris,T&lbot added 



' All det&ilfl aa to Richard Talbot's Herefordabire prefermenta have been most kindly 

 ■applied to me by Canon Banniater from the archivea at Hereford. 



