Archdeacon of Berkshire


The Archdeacon of Berkshire is a senior ecclesiastical officer in the Church of England Diocese of Oxford. The archdeacon is the head of the archdeaconry of Berkshire, a post historically found within the diocese of Salisbury, and then, from 7 October 1836, within Oxford diocese.

List of archdeacons

High Medieval

  • –aft. 1156: Roger
  • bef. 1173–bef. 1205: Geoffrey de Vernun
  • bef. 1206–aft. 1215: Alberic
  • aft. 1204–aft. 1222: Geoffrey
  • bef. 1224–aft. 1236: William of Merton
  • : Clement
  • : William de Raley
  • bef. 1237–aft. 1255: Giles of Bridport
  • : William
  • bef. 1266–aft. 1268: Walter Scammel
  • bef. 1275–bef. May 1284: Stephen of Newbury
  • aft. June 1284–bef. 1313: William de Berges

Late Medieval

  • 10 March 1313–bef. December 1313: Richard de Bello
  • bef. December 1313–bef. August 1331 : Tydo de Varesio
  • 14 September 1317: Gilbert de Stapleton
  • 21 August 1331–aft. 1333: Robert de Ayleston
  • bef. 1334–aft. 1359: Edmund de la Beche
  • aft. 1359–bef. 1365 : Thomas Paxton
  • 10 December 1365 – 1366 : John Harewell
  • bef. 1371–aft. 1384: Guillaume Cardinal d'Aigrefeuille

  • 26 October 1389–aft. 1392: Thomas Yokflete
  • papal grants:
  • *?–1390: Andrea Cardinal Bontempi Martini

  • *1390–22 April 1395 : Christopher Cardinal Marini

  • *22 April 1395 – 25 November 1397 : Walter Cook
  • royal grants:
  • *22 September 1395: John Southam
  • *28 September 1395: Walter Cook
  • *20 October 1395: Ralph Repyngton
  • *: John Wynwyk
  • 9 February 1397 – 30 January 1404 : John Southam
  • 30 January–15 March 1404 : Thomas Southam
  • bef. 10 June 1404–?: John Fraunceys
  • aft. 10 June–26 December 1404 : Simon Sydenham
  • 26 December 1404– : Walter Medford
  • –bef. 31 May 1427: Peter de Alcobasso
  • 25 June 1427 – 1431 : Thomas Brunce
  • 15 September 1431–bef. 1432: John Castell '
  • 24 September 1432 – 1433 : Alexander Sparrow
  • 18 October 1433 – 1462 : John Norton '
  • 15 February 1462 – 1464 : Richard Ewen
  • 9 March 1464 – 1465 : Robert Stillington
  • 28 February 1466 – 1476 : John Russell
  • 6 November 1476 – 1478 : John Morton
  • 31 December 1478 – 1482 : Richard Martyn
  • bef. 1 December 1488 – 1492 : Oliver King
  • 15 January 1493 – 1507 : Stephen Bereworth
  • 5 February 1507 – 1509 : Christopher Twineho
  • 20 December 1509 – 24 December 1510 : Stephen Bereworth
  • 24 December 1510 – 1522 : William Grey
  • 14 February 1522 – 1545 : Robert Audley

Early modern

Late modern