Bishop John Carpenter, "the elder"

Abt 1399 - 1476  (77 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	John Carpenter
  Prefix	Bishop
  Suffix	"the elder"
  Birth	Abt 1399	Westbury on Tryn, Bristol, Somersetshire, England
  Christening	London, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1476	Worcester, Worcestershire, England
  Burial	1476	Westbury on Tryn, Bristol, Somersetshire, England
  Siblings	2 Siblings
  1. Bishop John Carpenter, "the elder",   b. Abt 1399, Westbury on Tryn, Bristol, Somersetshire, England d. 1476, Worcester, Worcestershire, England  (Age 77 years)   2. Margery Carpenter,   b. Abt 1402, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown + 3. John Carpenter, "the younger",   b. 1410, Homme, co Herefordshire, England d. Abt 1476-1480, Homme, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 70 years) ▻ NN
  Person ID	I176665	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	27 Aug 2009

  
  

  Father	John Carpenter, " the elder",   b. Abt 1362, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	NN,   b. 1376, London, Middlesex, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Bef 1399	London, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F71210	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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• Notes

  This JOHN born about 1399 is listed in the AF as a second JOHN in this family and is known as JOHN the Senior or Elder. Raymond Carpenter, the genealogist, indicates that it was this John who was the "Elder Bishop of Worcester who died in 1476. He is the JOHN CARPENTER that was appointed Chancellor of Oxford University in 1437 and made a Bishop of Worcester in 1444. This fits with his death in Worcester. See page 2 of the Carpenter Memorial which gives pacticulars regarding his life and where he was buried. IE "in his native village of Westbury upon Tryn near Bristol, where a plain altar-monument was erected to his memory, with a skeleton lying on the top." His will does not mention a wife or children. John Carpenter, who was Bishop of Worcester, was was also tutor of Prince Henry, afterwards King Henry V, of England. He died in 1476 and was buried at Westbury on Trim, Gloucester, and his arms as used by the Hereford family were emblazoned on a glass window of the college and church as early as 1443, as he rebuilt the College and was a great benefactor to it. "THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL" By A. E. Douglas-Smith, 2nd Edition, 1965, Oxford. The City of London School for the Poor was endowed by this John's Uncle, who was the noted Town Clerk of London. On page two it reads "The third John Carpenter was Warden of St. Anthony's Hospital, Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, and later Bishop of Worcester. Our John Carpenter (the noted Town Clerk of London) evidently knew him well, and bequeathed to him 'that book on architecture which Master William Cleve gave me.' (Cleve was King's Chaplain and clerk of the works, and carried out building at the Palace of Westminister and the Tower.) !A Coat of Arms is a common way of tracing lineage. The arms granted to Lord George Carpenter in 1719, as published in the account of his life (The Life and Times of Lord George . . .) were Pally of six, argent and gules on a chevron, azure, three cross crosslets, or. CREST, on a wreath a globe in a frame all or. Supporters, two horses, party-perfess, embattled argent and gules. MOTTO: "Per Actua Belli" (Through the Asperities of War). The same arms, less the supporters and motto, were used by the Herefordshire Carpenter family and were emblazoned in a glass window of the college and church at Westbury upon Tryn as early as 1443. They were placed there permanently by Bishop John Carpenter of Worcester, who was a native of Westbury and a great benefactor of the college, having rebuilt and refounded it. Bishop John Carpenter died in 1476 and was buried in the church, where a plain altar monument was errected to his memory. This church (in 1890) is the Holy Trinity of Bristol, and is described in Willi's Survey of Cathedrals, published in 1742. And in Atykn's and Rudder's History of Gloucester where there is a very interesting sketch of Bishop John Carpenter who was also known as "Master John Carpenter" mentioned in the will of the town clerk of London, John Carpenter, the younger.