Bishop Of Hereford

Hereford. 7 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. Thomas de Cantilupo 1278–1282 ×2
   • 1278-05-29 — de Insula, executor of the will of John de Insula, his father, into chancery, and released to William de Monte Revelli and R. of Bath and Wells, his surety, all…
   • 1282-12-18 — Order to the sheriff of Lincoln to take into the king's hand the lands late of Thomas de Cantilupo, bishop of Hereford, deceased, tenant in chief.
2. Adam de Orleton 1325 ×2
   • 1325-07-15 — Prohibition as above with respect to the collation by the present king to de Denton, king's clerk, of the prebend of Morton, in the church of Hthelbert, Herefor…
3. Thomas Marshall 1337
4. Hugh Foliot 1348 ×2
   • 1348-07-26 — [uspeximus and confirmation to the prior and convent of Wenlok of the (1) Deed of Ysabel de Say, lady of Clun, granting to the monks there, for the weal of Sir …
   • 1348-07-26 — Inspeximus and confirmation to the prior and convent of Wenlok of the following : (1) Deed of Ysabel de Say, lady of Clun, granting to the monks there, for the …
5. John Gilbert 1385
   • 1385-11-09 — . Parr 1. 29 John Besyden of Alvethele, co. Essex, for not appearing to answer Thomas Dachet, citizen and sherman of London, touching a debt of 8 marks. London.…
6. John Trefnant 1391–1408 ×2
   • 1391-07-27 — Licence, at the supplication of John Trefnant, bishop of Hereford, and by mainprise of Edmund Fraunceys of London, grocer, Nicholas Walsyngham of London, mercer…
   • 1408-03-10 — Licence for Robert Braybrok, bishop of London, John Trefnant, bishop of Hereford, Robert, lord of Harryngton, chivaler, John Bagot, chivaler, Gerard Braybrok, c…
7. Thomas Millyng 1474
   • 1474-11-29 — Mandate to the escheator in the county of Middlesex for the restitution of the temporalities of the abbey of Westminster, immediately subject to the Roman churc…

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