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Sep
15 SEPTEMBER 1500
Death of John Morton, a politician and cleric, at Knole House, Kent, and was buried at Canterbury Cathedral.
He was born in c. 1420 in Dorset. He was appointed Bishop of Ely by Edward IV on 8 August 1479. He was a scheming adversary to Richard III and supporter of Henry Tudor. After Tudor came to power, he made him Archbishop of Canterbury on 6 October 1486.
Reference:
Christopher Harper-Bill, ‘Morton, John (d. 1500)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. [accessed online: 30 April 2011]
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