CHAPTER XIII
Reign of Henry VI A.D. 1422 to A.D. 1460.
Henry VI., being but nine months old, was proclaimed king, on the
death of his father. John Mulgan, bishop of Leighlin, died in 1431,
having governed the see nine years. He was buried in his own church,
near the tomb of Gurmund, the Dane.
Thomas Fleming, bachelor of divinity, and a Franciscan friar, was
advanced to the see, by a bull from the pope, on the 18th of April,
1432. Dowling states, that he was an Augustin canon of St. John the
Evangelist at Kilkenny, and that he died at Leighlin. His body was
conveyed to Kilkenny, as he had ordered by his will, and interred there
in a monastery of his own order. Soon after he was raised to the
bishopric, the ancient priory of St. Stephen, at Old Leighlin, was
dissolved, by authority of Pope Eugene IV., at the desire of Nicholas
Cloal, dean of Leighlin, and the lands of it annexed to the deanery.
Bishop Fleming governed this see till the year I458.
In 1449, Richard, duke of York, was appointed lord lieutenant of
Ireland, and in 1450, he held a parliament at Dublin. The Bishop of
Leighlin was fined for not attending it. A.D. 1458. Milo Roch, or de
Rupe, descended of a noble family, obtained the rank of bishop of the
diocese of Leighlin, by a provision from the pope. We learn that this
prelate was more attached to the study of music and poetry than accorded
with his station. Many contests arose between him and the clergy of his
diocese; in which, however, the latter triumphed. Henry VI. was deposed
in 1460.
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