Archdeacon Of Meath

8 recorded holders. ← all offices

The succession the rolls themselves record for this office, earliest first — a finding aid drawn from the roll text, not an authoritative fasti. Spelling variants of one holder now fold together where the volumes' own printed indexes attest them (“Burghers” and “Burghersh” are one man when the editors say so); the opposite case — one name hiding two men — is proposed from the same indexes and from matched identities, and separates only after human confirmation. Until then a shared name lists as one holder, and the list can be checked against printed succession lists (Fasti / VCH).

1. John de Kenle 1283 ×2
   • 1283-05-03 — Licence, for three years, for Master John de Kenle, archdeacon of Meath, to bring corn into England and sell the same, excepting in Wales. or elsewhere to the k…
2. John de Kenleye 1283–1290 ×10
   • 1283-05-03 — The like for : Master John de Keneleye, archdeacon of Meath, staying in England, nominating William de Hertelebury, chaplain, and Adam de Nas, clerk, his attorn…
   • 1283-06-19 — Simple protection for : Master Henry Serle, precentor of the church of Emly, for two years. Henry le Mareschal, citizen of Dublin, for three years. Master John …
   • 1283-06-19 — Grant to Master John de Kenleye, archdeacon of Meath and keeper of the spirituality of the bishopric of Meath, that the king's recent presentation of his clerk,…
   • 1290-07-18 — Inspeximus and confirmation of a charter of Robert de Wygornia, rector of the church of Nober, granting to Thomas, bishop of Meath, and his . 379 three burgages…
3. William de Sancto Leodegario 1345 ×2
   • 1345-03-01 — To Ralph de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his Order not to molest or aggrieve Thomas de Newenham, parson of Mary's church, Drogheda, as …
   • 1345-03-01 — To Ralph de Ufford, justiciary of Ireland, or to him who supplies his Order not to molest or aggrieve Thomas de Newenham, parson of Mary's church, Drogheda, as …
4. Thomas Sprot 1391–1395 ×2
   • 1391-09-18 — Licence, at the supplication of the archbishop of Dublin, for Thomas Sprot, archdeacon of Meath, to be absent from Ireland, attend the schools (scolas erercere)…
   • 1395-02-18 — Ratification of the grant by letters patent under the Irish seal with the assent of the Council of Ireland, dated 18 June last, to Thomas Sprot, archdeacon of M…
5. Thomas Bache 1404–1408 ×2
   • 1404-05-14 — Protection with clause volumus, for one year, for Thomas Bache, archdeacon of Meath in Ireland, going on the king's service in the company of the king's son Tho…
   • 1408-02-11 — Thomas Bache, archdeacon of Meath and parson of the church of St. Columba, Kenles, in Ireland, united and annexed to the archdeaconry. By p.s.
6. Robert de Emeldon undated
   • undated — Robert de Emeldon, archdeacon of Meath, staying in England, has letters nominating William de Burton, clerk, and William Laweles as his attorneys in Ireland unt…
7. William le Yonge undated
   • undated — To the abbot and convent of St. Edmunds Bury etc., as above, f. 186. Indult to have in perpetuity, as for the last two hundred years, their appropriated parish …

Ordered by the first date each holder appears with the office — where a holder is undated they sort last. Dates are the roll entries' own, not tenure dates.
Cite: “archdeacon of Meath”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/archdeacon-of-meath, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.