Bishop Of Emly

2 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. William de Clifford 1288
   • 1288-02-16 — Cancelled on payment. William de Clifford, bishop of Emly (Jmelacens ), acknowledges owes to Thomas de Novo Castro-super-Tinam, chaplain, 111 marks; levied, in …
2. Thomas Cantok 1308–1313 ×3
   • 1308-05-27 — Appointment, during pleasure, of Thomas Cantok, bishop of Emly, to the office of chancellor for Ireland, to hold the office in the same manner as he had held it…
   • 1308-06-04 — Appointment, during pleasure, of Thomas Cantok, bishop of Emly, to the office of chancellor for Ireland, to hold the office in the same manner as he had held it…

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