Archbishop Chichele

Henry Chichele
Archbishop of Canterbury Primate of All England
Appointed	28 April 1414
Installed	unknown
Term ended	12 April 1443
Predecessor	Thomas Arundel
Successor	John Stafford
Other posts	Bishop of St David's
Orders
Consecration	17 June 1408
Personal details
Born	1363 or 1364
Died	12 April 1443
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Henry Chichele (/ˈtʃɪtʃəliː/ CHICH-ə-lee; also Checheley) (c. 1364 – 12 April 1443), was an English archbishop and founder of All Souls College, Oxford.

Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chicheley told Pope Eugene IV, in 1443, in asking leave to retire from the archbishopric, that he was in his eightieth year. He was the third and youngest son of Thomas Chicheley, who appears in 1368 in still extant town records of Higham Ferrers, as a suitor in the mayor's court, and in 1381–1382, and again in 1384–1385, was mayor: in fact, for a dozen years he and Henry Barton, schoolmaster of Higham Ferrers grammar school, and one Richard Brabazon, filled the mayoralty in turns.

Chichele's occupation does not appear but his eldest son, William, is on the earliest extant list (1383) of the Grocers' Company, London. On 9 June 1405 Chichele was admitted, in succession to his father, to a burgage in Higham Ferrers. His mother, Agnes Pincheon, is said to have been of gentle birth. There is therefore no foundation in fact for the account (copied into the Dictionary of National Biography from a local historian, John Cole, Wellingborough, 1838) that Henry Chichele, as a poor ploughboy "eating his scanty meal off his mother's lap", was picked up by William of Wykeham. This story was unknown to Arthur Duck, Fellow of All Souls, who wrote Chichele's life in 1617.

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