Richard Redman (bishop)

15th and 16th-century Bishop of Ely, Bishop of Exeter, and Bishop of St Asaph

Richard Redman (died 1505) was a medieval Premonstratensian canon and abbot of Shap Abbey,^[1] Bishop of St Asaph, Bishop of Exeter, and Bishop of Ely, as well as the commissary-general for the Abbot of Prémontré between 1459 and his death.

Redman was consecrated as Bishop of St Asaph after 13 October 1471.^[2]

Redman was translated to Exeter on 6 November 1495.^[3]

Redman was then translated to Ely on 26 May 1501. He died while Bishop of Ely on 24 August 1505.^[4]

Citations

1. Gribbin, The Premonstratensian Order in Late Mediaeval Britain p. 174ff
2. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 296
3. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 247
4. Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 245

References

• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.