On 24th January 1287 Bishop Richard de Bury was born.
Around 1322 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 34] was appointed tutor to the future King Edward III of England [aged 9].
In 1327 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 39] was appointed Cofferer of the Household.
In 1327 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 39] was appointed Treasurer of the Wardrobe.
In 1327 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 39] was appointed Lord Privy Seal.
In 1330 and 1333 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 42] was sent as ambassador to the papal court in exile at Avignon.
In February 1333 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 46] was appointed Dean of Wells.
In September 1333 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 46] was appointed Bishop of Durham.
Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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After 1345. Chapel of the Nine Altars, Durham Cathedral [Map]. Memorial to Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 57].
Adam Murimuth Continuation. In this year, on the 14th day of May, in the year of the Lord 1345, and in the nineteenth year of the reign of King Edward III after the Conquest, Richard de Bury [aged 58], bishop of Durham, died. He had acquired that bishopric and all his previous benefices through the influence of great men and the vice of ambition, and therefore throughout his whole life he suffered from want and was prodigal in his expenses, so that he ended his days in the greatest poverty. And when the end of his life was imminent, his servants carried off all his movable goods, so that, when he was dying, he had nothing with which he could cover his body except the over-tunic of a single groom who remained in the chamber. And although the same bishop had been only moderately learned, yet wishing to be thought a great scholar, he gathered for himself an innumerable quantity of books, both by gift, by borrowing from various monasteries, and by purchase, so that five large carts were not sufficient to carry his books.
Hoc anno, XIIIJ die Maii, anno Domini MCCCXLV, regni vero dicti regis Edwardi tertii a conquæstu decimo nono, obiit Ricardus de Bury, episcopus Dunelmensis, qui ipsum episcopatum et omnia sua beneficia prius habita per preces magnatum et ambitionis vitium adquisivit, et ideo toto tempore suo inopia laboravit et prodigus exstitit in expensis, unde dies suos in gravissima paupertate finivit. Eminente vero termino vitæ suæ, sui familiares omnia bona sua mobilia rapuerunt, adeo quod moriens unde corpus suum cooperire poterat non habebat, nisi supertunicam unius garcionis in camera remanentis. Et, licet idem episcopus fuisset mediocriter literatus, volens tamen magnus clericus reputari, recollegit sibi librorum numerum infinitum, tam de dono quam ex acommodato a diversis monasteriis et ex empto, adeo quod quinque magnæ carectæ non sufficiebant pro ipsius vectura librorum.
On 14th May 1345 Bishop Richard de Bury [aged 58] died.