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Lionel Woodville (1447 – 23 June 1484) was a Bishop of Salisbury in England. Life. Woodville was a fourth son of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg; his siblings included Elizabeth Woodville, Queen Consort from 1464 to 1483.
In late July, Richard III set off on a royal progress, visiting Oxford’s Magdalen College on July 24 and 25, 1483. The college register records that the new king was greeted by the university’s chancellor—who, of course, was Lionel Woodville.
He was Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1479–1483. After a number of more minor clerical positions, Woodville was elected Dean of Exeter in November of 1478, and held the position until 1482, when he became Bishop of Salisbury. He was nominated to Salisbury on 7 January 1482 and consecrated on 21 April 1482.
9 de oct. de 2015 · European universities began granting degrees “for the sake of the honor” (honoris causa) in the 15th century, and the first such degree was awarded at Oxford University in 1478 or 1479 to Lionel Woodville, Dean of Exeter, the brother-in-law of Edward IV and the future Bishop of Salisbury.
9 de nov. de 2016 · La historia de los Doctorados Honoris Causa se remonta a la Edad Media; posiblemente al episodio cuando la Universidad de Oxford en 1470 exime de algunos requisitos legales para que Lionel...
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The earliest honorary degree (in the sense which we would understand it today) appears to have been offered to Lionel Woodville in 1478 or 1479.
