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Kemp, John (1380/1 - 1453/4)

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Birth Date: 1381
Death Date: 1454-03-22

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Fellow, Merton College, Oxford University 1395--1407 (Senior Bursar 1403-4). Ordained subdeacon 14 April 1403; priested 21 May 1407. Doctor of civil law by 1413. On embassy to treat with Aragon 8 Sept. 1415--13 June 1416. Appointed to exercise the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury in France 20 July 1417

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Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Bishop, -2 -28 (date translated by Papal provision) -11 -17 Temporalities restored 21 Aug. 1421
Rector, Kent
Rector, London 1407 -5 -21
Examiner-general, Court of Arches, Province of Canterbury 1412/13 -1 -30 1414 -06
Dean, Court of Arches, Province of Canterbury 1413/14 -2 -21
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Court of Admiralty, Kent 1414 1416 Also appointed 4 more times before 1425
Vicar-general to Archbishop Chichele, Province of Canterbury 1415
Archdeacon, Durham Diocese 1417 -10 -13 (date collated)
Chancellor, France 1417 1422 -09
Keeper of the Privy Seal, England 1418 -10 -3 1421 -10 -25
Bishop, Rochester Diocese 1419 -6 -26 (date provided to the diocese by the Pope) 1420/1 -02 -28 Temporalities restored 27 July 1419; consecrated (at Rouen) 3 Dec. 1419
Bishop, London Diocese 1421 -11 -17 (date translated) 1425 -07 -20 Spiritualities received 22 May 1422; temporalities restored 20 June 1422; enthroned 26 Oct. 1422
King's Councillor, England 1422 1453/4 -03 -22
Archbishop, Province of York 1425 -7 -20 (date translated) 1452 -07 -21 Temporalities restored 22 April 1426; enthroned 1 Sept. 1426
Chancellor of England, England 1425/6 -3 -18 1431/2 -02 -25
JP, Kent 1436 1453/4
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1436/7 1451
JP, Gloucestershire 1437 1439
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1437 1451
Cardinal, England 1439 -12 -18 1453/4 -03 -22 Cardinal-Priest of St Balbina; appointed Cardinal-Bishop of St Ruffina 21 July 1452
JP, Nottinghamshire 1439 1451
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1441/2 1452
JP, Middlesex 1445 1449
Chancellor of England, England 1449/50 -1 -31 1453/4 -03 -22
Commissioner of Oyer & Terminer, Kent 1450
Archbishop, Province of Canterbury 1452 -6 -28 (date elected) 1453/4 -03 -22 Translated 21 July 1452; temporalities restored 6 Sept. 1462; enthroned 11 Dec. 1452
JP, Sussex 1453

Details of Properties

Residence

  • York Place, (city) in Middlesex
    Acquired: 1425
    Divested: 1452
    Residence of the Archbishop of York; later known as Whitehall
  • Archbishop's Palace, Kent
    Acquired: 1452
    Divested: 1453/4
  • Lambeth Palace, Surrey
    Acquired: 1452
    Divested: 1453/4
    Residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Minstrel
Performance - New Romney (Unknown), New Romney, Kent Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Minstrel/s
Performance - Chartham Manor, near Canterbury, Kent Lord Cardinal's Harper
Performance - Chartham Manor, near Canterbury, Kent Lord Cardinal's Harper
Performance - Eastry Manor, near Sandwich, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel
Performance - Eastry Manor, near Sandwich, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Cardinal's Minstrels
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex Lord Chancellor's Minstrel

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Chancellor's Minstrel Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 2
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Minstrels Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Cardinal's Harper Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Musicians 2
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Minstrel Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury's Minstrel/s Kemp, John (1381 - 1454) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300--1541. 1716. 12 vols. London: Athlone Press, 1962--7
  • Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541--1857. 12 vols. London: U of London Institute for Historical Research, 1969--
  • Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, 1983
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.