# John Wycliff, last of the schoolmen and first of the English reformers/Chronology of Events connected with Wyclif

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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| 1301 to 1353 | | Edward I. | Winchelsey | Boniface VIII. | Philip IV. | Increaing power of English Parliament. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1302. Bull Unam Santcum |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1303. Benedict XI. [At Avignon.] | | 1303. Arrest of Boniface. $\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,$ Dante Petrach Boccaccio |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1305. Clement V. | | 1305. Popes at Avignon. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | 1307. Edward II. | | | | 1307. Statute of Provisors (1). |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1311. Council of Vienne: Olivi condemned. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | 1313. Reynolds. | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | 1314. Louis X. | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | 1315. John I. | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1316. John XXII. | 1316. Philip V. | |
| 1301 to 1353 | 1320. Born (at Wycliff or Speswell?) Son of Roger and Catherine Wyclif. | | | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1322. Franciscan Congregation at Perugia (for evangelical poverty). |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | 1323. Charles IV. | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1324. Defensor Pacis written. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | 1327. Edward III. | 1327. Simon Meopham | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | 1328. Philip VI. | 1328. Lewis of Bavaria at Rome. Antipope Peter. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1333. English tribute to Rome suspended. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1334. Benedict XII. | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | 1335. At a grammar school in Oxford? | | | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1338. Scots and French Wars. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1340. John of Gaunt and Chaucer born? First lay Chancellor. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1342. Clement VI. | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1343. Parliament petitions King against Papal provisions. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1346. Crécy. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1347. Rienzi's Revolution. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | 1348. John Ufford. | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | 1349. Thomas Bradwine. | | | |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | 1349. Simon Islip. | | | 1349. Worst visitation of the Plague. Flagellants come to the front. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | 1350. John II. | 1350. Papal Jubilee: lavish gifts to the Church. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1351. Statute of Provisors. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | 1352. Innocent VI. | | 1352. Statutes of Labourers. |
| 1301 to 1353 | | | | | | 1353. Statute of Præmunire (1). |
| 1301 to 1353 | Probably heard Ockham, Bradwardine, and Fitzralph; and read Marsiglio and Cesena. Wyclif specially owns his obligations to Augustine and Grosteste. According to James he was a Doctor of Divinity soon after 1355?? Beneficed in Oxford?(James). | | | | | |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| | | Edward III | Simon Islip | Innocent VI. | John II. | 1354. Turks cross the Hellespont. |
| 1354 to 1360 | 1356. Fellow of Merton Fellow of Balliol (date unrecorded) Master of Balliol (date unrecorded) Lord of the Manor of Wycliffe (a kinght's fee) | | | | | 1356. Poitiers. |
| 1354 to 1360 | | | | | | 1357. Edward refuses tribute to the Pope. Fitzralph attacks Franciscans at Rome. Ockham dies. |
| 1354 to 1360 | | | | | | 1358. Papal envoys executed in England. |
| 1354 to 1360 | | | | | | 1360. Treaty of Brétigny. |
| 1361 to 1363. | 1361. Maintains authority of University against the Friars? Rector of Fillingham (college living). | Edward III. | | | | |
| 1361 to 1363. | | | | 1362. Urban V. | | 1362. Jubilee of Edward's life. English language adopted in the courts. |
| 1361 to 1363. | 1363. In residence at Queen's. Presents W. Wycliffe to family living of Wycliffe? | | | | | |
| 1361 to 1363. | | | | | 1364. Charles V. | |
| 1361 to 1363. | 1365. King's Chaplain. Probably begins to preach in London. Lectures on Divinity at Oxford. Writes scholastic works—De Esse, De Compositions Hominie, etc. | | | | | 1365. Suits in Papal court forbidden again. |
| 1366 to 1370. | 1366. Called upon by Parliament to show cause against paying tribute to Rome: Determinatio quædam de Dominio. | Edward III. | 1366. S.Langham | | | 1366. Parliament refuses tribute to Pope. Wykeham Bishop of Winchester. |
| 1366 to 1370. | | | | | | 1367. Wykeham Chancellor of England. |
| 1366 to 1370. | 1368. In Oxford again. | | 1368. W. Whittle-sea. | | | |
| 1366 to 1370. | 1369. Presents H. Hugate of Balliol to Wycliffe rectory? Exchanges Fillingham for the poorer living of Ludgarshall. | | | | | 1369. Portsmouth burnt by the French. |
| 1366 to 1370. | 1370. Doctor of Divinity. | | | | | 1370. Sack of Limoges. |
| 1371. | Personal influence of Wyclif at Court, over Princess of Wales, Lancaster, Lord Latimer, Alice Perrers, etc. Also over Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Berkeley and many others. | Edward III. | | 1371. Gregory XI. | | 1371. Removal of ecclesiastics from offices of state on petition of Commons. Heavier taxation of the Church. Reverses in French and Spanish Wars. |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Contemporary Events |
| 1372 to 1375 | | Edward III. | W. Whittlesea. | Gregory XI. | 1372. English navy destroyed. |
| 1372 to 1375 | | | | | 1373. Mission to Avignon about provisions, etc. Courtenay in Convocation demands relief for the Church. Commission on alien incumbents. |
| 1372 to 1375 | 1374. Appointed by Crown to living of Lutterworth. Appointed on Commission to to confer with Papal legates at Bruges. | | | | 1374. Peace with France: mediation of Pope. |
| 1372 to 1375 | 1375. Resides at Bruges as Commissioner, fifty days. Refuses the prebend of Aust. | | 1375. S.Sudbury. | | 1375. Conferences at Bruges, political and ecclesiastical. Compromises effected in both cases. Senility of the King. Great influence of Alice Perrers. Parliament not summoned this year. Courtenay Bishop of London. |
| 1376 to 1377 | 1376. Complaints of Wyclif made by the friars to the English bishops, and then to Rome. | | | | 1376. Good Parliament. Ecclesiastics recalled. Prince of Wales dies. Parliament overruled. Wykeham disgraced and Speaker imprisoned. Pope excommunicates the Florentines. Attacks on foreigners in England. |
| 1376 to 1377 | 1377. Summoned to St. Paul's by Courtenay; attended by Lancaster and Percy. Citizens break up the meeting. | 1377. Richard II. | | | 1377. Courtenay demands the restoration of Wykeham. Commons packed by John of Gaunt. Attempt to curtail the privileges of the City. Riots in London and Westminster. First poll-tax. Death of Edward III. War renewed with France. In residence at Black Hall, Oxford. Five Papal bulls against Wyclif, who makes his defence at Oxford and in Parliament. Wyclif, consulted by Parliament as to payment of Peter's Pence, refutes the claim, but declines to advise non-payment. |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| 1378 to 1380 | 1378. Cited to Lambeth; re-asserts his conclusions. Princess of Wales protects him. Londoners again interrupt. He withdraws to Lutterworth or Oxford. | Richard II. | | SCHISM. 1378 $\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$ R. Urban VI. A. Clement VII. | | 1378. England acknowledges Pope Urban. Courtenay excommunicates Lancaster's friends. Parliament sits at Gloucester. John of Gaunt reconciled to the Church. |
| 1378 to 1380 | 1379. Serious illness at Oxford. Friars call upon him for retraction. He defies them. Sends his defence and challenge to Rome. Great literary activity: writes De Veritate Sanctæ Scripiuræ. | | | | | 1379. Sudbury appointed Chancellor. |
| 1378 to 1380 | | | | | 1380. Charles VI. | 1380. New and more stringent poll-tax imposed. John of Gaunt Envoy to Scotland and Lieutenant of the Marches. |
| 1381 to 1382 | 1381. Begins to lecture at Oxford against transubstantiation, and carries many with him. Inquiry by Chancellor Berton and a Council of twelve. Wyclif's doctrine condemned, and he is forbidden to lecture. Appeals to the King; John of Gaunt asks him to desist. Writes his Confession or Apologia, claiming the authority of the earlier Church. Many replies from monks and others. Proceedings against the Poor Priests. | Richard II. | 1381. W. Courtenay. | | | 1381. Ruthless exaction of second poll-tax. Peasants' Revolt; the march on London; terms granted. Cruel suppression, and repudiation of the terms by Parliament; 7,000 executed. Serfdom virtually ended. Courtenay Archbishop and Chancellor. |
| 1381 to 1382 | 1382. Accused of complicity in the Peasants' Revolt. Cited by Courtenay before a Synod at the priory of the Black Friars in London. He does not attend (through illness or otherwise), but twenty-four of his conclusions are condemned, for heresy or error. (The Earthquake Synod.) His chief supporters condemned at subsequent meetings. He re-asserts his conclusions at Oxford. | | | | | 1382. Richard II. marries Anne of Bohemia. Parliament calls on Courtenay to proceed against Wyclif and others. He assembles a Synod, sends Stokys to Oxford, reduces Rygge and others to submission. Processional Litany in London, Whitsunday. Convocation of St. Frideswide's, Oxford. |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| a.d. | Facts in Wyclif's Life and relating to him | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| 1382 to 1384 | 1382. (Cont.) Greater literary activity. Collects his sermons; writes a number of English tracts, in which he denounces the Papal crusade, the conduct of the Friars, etc. Engaged on English translation of the Bible. First stroke of paralysis. | Richard II. | W. Courtenay. | | Charles VI. | 1382. (Cont.J Bishop Despencer's expedition(papal crusade) to Flanders ordered by Urban. Bulls and plenary indulgence proclaimed in England. Active assistance of the Friars. |
| 1382 to 1384 | 1383. Persecution of his friends. Some fall away. Continued literary activity. Writes the Trialogus. Cited to Rome. Excuses himself on the ground of inability to travel. | | | | | 1383. Crusade from May to September; disastrous result. The Scots raid Northumberland. John of Gaunt retaliates. Chaucer assisted by Lancaster. Inclines to Church reform and ecclesiastical poverty. Gower in his Latin and English poems attacks the peasants, Lollardism, and the policy of Richard II. (1381-97). |
| 1382 to 1384 | 1384. Has a second stroke at Lutterworth, Dec. 28th, and dies Dec. 31st. | | | | | |
| 1385 to 1401 | 1385. Buried in the church at Lutterworth. Second text of his Bible prepared by Purvey. (The Pleshy Bible, copied for Thomas Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, murdered 1397, was valued amongst his effects at 40s. It is now in the British Museum.) | Richard II. | | | | 1385. Commons demand secularisation of Church property. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | | | 1388. Courtenay (under parliamentary powers) proceeds against heretics and seizes books. Lays Leicester under interdict, '89. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | 1389. R.Boniface IX. | | 1388. Courtenay (under parliamentary powers) proceeds against heretics and seizes books. Lays Leicester under interdict, '89. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | | | 1390. Statute of Provisors enlarged. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | | | 1391. Statute of Mortmain confirmed. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | | | 1393. Second and more stringent Statute of Præmunire. Peace between England and France. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | 1394. A. Benedict XIII. | | |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | | | | 1395. Parliament petitions against alien clerics. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | | 1396. T.Arundel. | | | 1396. Archbishop Arundel opens severely against the Lollards. Accused of intrigues and banished, '97. |
| 1385 to 1401 | 1397. Arundel presides over a Synod which condemns eighteen conclusions of Wyclif. | | | | | 1396. Archbishop Arundel opens severely against the Lollards. Accused of intrigues and banished, '97. |
| 1385 to 1401 | | 1399. Henry IV. | | | | 1399. Duke of Lancaster dies. Richard II. deposed. |
| 1385 to 1401 | 1401. Jerome of Prague and others carry many works of Wyclif to Bohemia. | | | | | 1401. Statute De Hcerelico Comburendo. Sawtre burned. |
CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS CONNECTED WITH WYCLIFF :
| A.D | Facts Relating to Wycliff | Kings of England | Archbishops of Canterbury | Popes | Kings of France | Contemporary Events |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1403. Huss protests against condemnation of Wycliffism. | Henry IV. | T Arundel | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | 1404. R. Innocent VII, | | 1404 and 1410. The Commons renew their demand for secularisation. The Lollards take sides against Henry IV. at Shrewsbury and elsewhere. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | 1406. R. Gregory XII. | | 1404 and 1410. The Commons renew their demand for secularisation. The Lollards take sides against Henry IV. at Shrewsbury and elsewhere. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1407. Arundel's Council at Oxford. | | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1409. Two hundred and sixty-seven errors gathered by an Oxford committee from Wyclif's works. The books burned at Carfax. | | | 1409. Alexander V. | | 1409. Council of Pisa. Gregory and Benedict deposed. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1410. Papal bull against Wycliffism in Bohemia. Seventeen works condemned. Huss and others protest; two hundred copies publicly burned. | | | 1410. John XXIII. | | 1410. Badby of Evesham burned. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1411. Huss excommunicated. | | | | | 1411. Arundel asserts his right to visit Oxford. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1413. Wyclif's books burned by order of the Council of Rome. | 1413. Henry V. | | | | 1413. Henry IV. d. Sir John Oldcastle (Lord Cobham) condemned as a heretic. Council at Rome. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | 1414. H. Chicheley. | | | 1414. Abp. Arundel d. One hundred alien priories dissolved in England. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | | | 1414-18. Council of Constance. John XXIII. deposed. End of Schism, |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1415. The Council of Constance confirms the condemnation of the Council of Rome, and orders Wyclif 's bones to be exhumed and cast forth. | | | (Interregnum: May 29, 1415-Nov. 11,1417.) | | 1415. Huss burned at Constance. Battle of Agincourt. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1416. Chicheley's Inquisition. | | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | 1417. Martin V. | | 1417. Cobham burned in England; afterwards Claydon and Taillour. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | | | 1418 Beaufort, son of John of Gaunt, made Cardinal; afterwards Kemp and Bourchier. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | 1422. Henry VI. | | | 1422. Charles VII. | |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1423. Condemnation of Wyclif by the Council of Pavia. | | | | | 1423 Council of Pavia. |
| 1402 to 1455 | 1428. Bishop Flemmyng exhumes and burns Wyclif's bones at Lutterworth. | | | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | | | 1431 Council of Basle. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | 1443. J. Stafford. | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | | | 1450. Rising in Kent. |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | 1452. J. Kemp. | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | 1454 T. Bourchier | | | |
| 1402 to 1455 | | | | | | 1455. Civil war breaks out in England. Indications of Lollard or anti-ecclesiastical leanings on the Yorkist side. |