Henry de Loundres

Arms displayed by Henry de Loundres as Archbishop of Dublin, at the signing of Magna Charta

Henry de Loundres[1] (died 1228) was an Anglo-Norman churchman who was Archbishop of Dublin from 1213 to 1228.[2] He was an influential figure in the reign of John of England, an administrator and loyalist to the king. He is mentioned in the text of Magna Carta, the terms of which he helped to negotiate.[3]

He was dean of Stafford in 1207[4] and commissioned a church in Penkridge.[5] He had continuing interests in Staffordshire.[6]

He was justiciar in Ireland from 1213, his deputy Geoffery de Marisco executing the responsibilities during the bishop's absence in Rome.[7][8] He unsuccessfully attempted to have one of his clerks appointed Bishop of Cork in 1214.[9] He was resisted by Donnchad Ua Longargain, Archbishop of Cashel, in his attempts to make the church hierarchy in Ireland more Anglo-Norman.[10]

He organized his archdiocese and made his cathedral see at the enlarged St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.[11] He was a major figure in the completion of Dublin Castle by 1230,[12] and had a hostel for pilgrims built in Dublin.[13] In 1220 he ordered the extinction of the flame that kept burning in Kildare Abbey,[14] as a remaining pagan association. He claimed to be Primate of Ireland, in opposition to the rival claim of the Archbishop of Armagh: the struggle for supremacy between the Sees of Dublin and Armagh was to last for centuries.

  1. ^ Henri de Diveline, Henry of London, Henry le Blund, Henry le Blount.
  2. ^ "Dublin Diocesan Jubilee Website: Primary School Resources". Archived from the original on 9 November 2004. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
  3. ^ J. C. Holt, Magna Carta (second edition 1992), pp. 366-7, 449.
  4. ^ Colleges - Stafford, St Mary | British History Online
  5. ^ Religion in Penkridge[permanent dead link‍]
  6. ^ Colleges - Penkridge, St Michael | British History Online
  7. ^ One period 1210 to 1215 [1]; in 1213 according to A. L. Poole, Domesday Book to Magna Carta p. 315.
  8. ^ O'Mahony, Charles (1912). The Viceroys of Ireland. p. 21.
  9. ^ Warren – Church and state in Angevin Ireland
  10. ^ Maurice Powicke, The Thirteenth Century (1962 edition), p. 568 note.
  11. ^ [2], [3][permanent dead link‍]
  12. ^ "Dublin Castle – History Chapter 3". Archived from the original on 15 December 2007. Retrieved 18 January 2008.
  13. ^ PDF, p. 125.
  14. ^ [4], [5] Archived 27 April 2006 at the Wayback Machine