Description of arms. Gules, two lions passant guardant or, on a chief azure, the Virgin ducally crowned sitting on a throne issuant from the chief, on her dexter arm the infant Jesus, and in her sinister hand a sceptre all gold.
BISHOPS OF LINDSEY
634
Birinus
650
Agilbert
660
Aetlai
678
Eadhaed
680
Æthelwine
693
(?)Edgar
731
(?)Cyneberht
733
Alwig
750
Aldwulf
767
Ceolwulf
796
Eadwulf
839
Beorhtred
869
Burgheard
933
Ælfred
953
Leofwine
996
Sigefrith
BISHOPS OF LEICESTER
664
Wilfrid, translated from York
679
Cuthwine
691
Headda* (founder of Lichfield Cathedral 705-37)
727
Aldwine
737
Torhthelm
764
Eadberht
785
Unwona
803
Wernberht
816
Raethhun
840
Ealdred
844
Ceolred
874
[See of Leicester removed to Dorchester]
BISHOPS OF DORCHESTER (after it became a Mercian See)
c. 888
Ahlheard
900
Wigmund or Wilferth
909
Cenwulf
925
Wynsige
c. 951
Osketel
953
Leofwine
975
Ælfnoth
979
Æscwig
1002
ÆIfheln
1006
Eadnoth I
1016
Æthelric
1034
Eadnoth II
1049
Ulf
1053
Wulfwig
1067
Remigius
BISHOPS OF LINCOLN
1072
Remigius
1094
Robert Bloett
1123
Alexander
1148
Robert de Chesney
1183
Walter de Coutances
1186
Hugh of Avalon
1203
William of Blois
1209
Hugh of Wells
1235
Robert Grosseteste
1254
Henry Lexington [Sutton]
1258
Richard Gravesend
1280
Oliver Sutton [Lexington]
1300
John Dalderby
1320
Henry Burghersh
1342
Thomas Bek
1347
John Gynewell
1363
John Bokyngham [Buckingham]
1398
Henry Beaufort
1405
Philip Repingdon
1420
Richard Fleming
1431
William Gray
1436
William Alnwick
1450
Marmaduke Lumley
1452
John Chedworth
1472
Thomas Rotherham [Scott]
1480
John Russell
1495
William Smith
1514
Thomas Wolsey
1514
William Atwater
1521
John Longland
1547
Henry Holbeach [Rands]
1552
John Taylor
1554
John White
1557
Thomas Watson
1560
Nicholas Bullingham
1571
Thomas Cooper
1584
William Wickham
1595
William Chaderton
1608
William Barlow
1614
Richard Neile
1617
George Monteigne [Mountain]
1621
John Williams
1642
Thomas Winniffe
1660
Robt. Sanderson
1663
Benjamin Laney
1667
William Fuller
1675
Thomas Barlow
1692
Thomas Tenison
1695
James Gardiner
1705
William Wake
1716
Edmund Gibson
1723
Richard Reynolds
1744
John Thomas
1761
John Green
1779
Thomas Thurlow
1787
George Pretyman [Pretyman Tomline after June 1803]
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