Dean Of Dublin

4 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. Thomas de Chaddesworth 1295–1296 ×3
   • 1295-12-14 — Mandate to Master Richard de Abindon, king's clerk, keeper of the St. archbishopric uf Dublin, to restore the temporalities to William de Hothum, provincial pri…
2. John de Colton 1375–1380 ×4
   • 1375-06-28 — Mandate to the king's clerk, John de Colton, dean of Dublin, late treasurer of the said Exchequer, to deliver by indenture to Thomas . Part TI. 12) said office,…
   • 1378-12-12 — Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 500/., made 16 December 2 Richard II in the chancery at the manse of the friars preachers London by Master John Colton…
   • 1380-02-22 — Master William Bole bishop of Artfert in Ireland and Master John Colton dean of Dublin and prebendary of Bugthorp in York cathedral to William de Bello Campo th…
   • 1380-05-08 — during pleasure of Master John de Colton, dean of Dublin to the office of chancellor of Ireland. By K. and C. to Robert de Sutton, keeper of the seal which the …
3. John Preue undated
   • undated — To the abbot of Cumhre in the diocese of St. Davids. Mandate to collate and assign to Gruffuth ap Davit, perpetual vicar of Llannavannwe in the said diocese, th…
4. John of Stamford undated
   • undated — Mandate to J. cardinal of St. Cecilia s, papal legate, to compel the firms of Kardellini, Squarcialupi, and others, who have j- yeceived sums from the collector…

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