Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameSimon Montacute Bishop of Ely 
[54, His co-article]
[54, His co-article]Death20 Jun 1345
GeneralBishop of Ely
FatherSir William Montacute Lord Montacute (-1319)
MotherElizabeth de Montfort (-1354)
DNB Main notes for Simon Montacute Bishop of Ely
Co-subject: Montacute, Simon de
Dates: d. 1345
Active Date: 1325
Gender: Male
Article
His second son, Simon de Montacute, studied at Oxford, and was on 29 Nov. 1318 recommended by Edward II to the pope's favour on the plea of poverty through being a younger son (ib. ii. 380); he became successively archdeacon of Canterbury, bishop of Worcester in 1334, and bishop of Ely in 1337, and died on 20 June 1345 (Rolls of Parl.; Murimuth, passim; Godwin, De Pr‘sulibus Angli‘, pp. 261, 443; Leland, Collectanea, i. 606, iii. 24; Le Neve, iii. 56, i. 334).
Dates: d. 1345
Active Date: 1325
Gender: Male
Article
His second son, Simon de Montacute, studied at Oxford, and was on 29 Nov. 1318 recommended by Edward II to the pope's favour on the plea of poverty through being a younger son (ib. ii. 380); he became successively archdeacon of Canterbury, bishop of Worcester in 1334, and bishop of Ely in 1337, and died on 20 June 1345 (Rolls of Parl.; Murimuth, passim; Godwin, De Pr‘sulibus Angli‘, pp. 261, 443; Leland, Collectanea, i. 606, iii. 24; Le Neve, iii. 56, i. 334).