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Richard Foxe was an English churchman, the founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, and became also Lord Privy Seal.
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Richard Foxe, portrait after Johannes Corvus, late 16th century, National Portrait Gallery, London. At left are the arms of the See of Exeter impaling Foxe (Azure, a pelican in her piety or) at right are the arms of the See of Winchester impaling Foxe, the whole circumscribed by the Garter.
The crosier of Bishop Foxe, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bishop Foxe at the deathbed of Henry VII at Richmond, 1509.
The Bishop stands 1st. at Henry's left-hand, his armourials above. From a contemporary drawing by Sir Thomas Wriothesley.
BL Add.MS 45131, f.54
Foxe's tomb in Winchester CathedralPoliticians born in the 1440s 6
About this person
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1447 to 1528 · aged 81
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