Bishop Of Carlisle

Carlisle. 5 recorded holders. religious office ← 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. Ralph de Ireton 1280
   • 1280-07-08 — Ralph de Irton, bishop of Carlisle, has made fine in 400 marks to have the king's good will.
2. Robert de Chaury 1290 ×2
   • 1290-06-21 — Grant to the prior and convent of St. Mary, Carlisle, that they may retain the yearly pension of 9 marks payable to them of old from the church of Rothebiry, co…
3. John de Kirkeby 1340 ×3
   • 1340-01-28 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance of 59. Os. 14d. to be made to John de Kirkeby, bishop of Carlisle in his account, if they…
   • 1340-01-28 — To the treasurer and barons of the exchequer. Order to cause allowance of 59. Os. 14d. to be made to John de Kirkeby, bishop of Carlisle in his account, if they…
4. William de Stirkeland 1400
   • 1400-08-06 — Licence for the king's kinsman Henry de Percy, earl of Northumberland, constable of England, to grant the castle and manor of Werkeworth, co. Northumberland, an…
5. Marmaduke de Lumley 1443
   • 1443-06-21 — Licence for Marmaduke Lumley, bishop of Carlisle, to appropriate in mortmain the church of Caldebek, co. Cumberland, worth not more than 40 marks yearly, and th…

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: “bishop of Carlisle”, Reading the Rolls, https://readingtherolls.com/office/bishop-of-carlisle, accessed 2026-07-25. Derived from the printed calendars of the medieval English royal records.