Richard Talbot (archbishop of Dublin)

Richard Talbot (c. 1390 – 15 August 1449) was an English-born statesman and cleric in fifteenth-century Ireland. He was a younger brother of John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury. He held the offices of Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland. He was one of the leading political figures in Ireland for more than thirty years, but his career was marked by controversy and frequent quarrels with other statesmen. In particular his quarrel with the powerful Earl of Ormonde was one of the main causes of the Butler–Talbot feud, which dominated Irish politics for decades, and seriously weakened the power of the English Crown in Ireland.

He was the third son of Richard Talbot, 4th Baron Talbot, and his wife Ankaret le Strange. He seems to have entered the Church while he was still in his early teens. He became prebendary of Hereford Cathedral and York Cathedral, and Dean of Chichester in 1415. In 1416 he was elected Archbishop of Armagh but failed to secure Papal confirmation of his election in time. The following year he was consecrated Archbishop of Dublin.

He was an active and reforming Archbishop, who established a new corporation in St. Patrick's Cathedral and founded chantries in St. Michael's Church and St. Audoen's Church. His rule as Archbishop was marked by a long-running conflict with John Swayne, who had become Archbishop of Armagh in 1418, two years after Talbot failed to obtain confirmation of his election to that see. Talbot revived an old dispute about primacy between the sees of Dublin and Armagh, and refused to accept the right of Swayne to call himself Primate of Ireland. Swayne was equally intransigent: in 1429 he refused to attend a session of the Irish Parliament in Leinster if his primacy was not acknowledged there.

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