Richard Elvet was an English priest in the early 15th century.[1]
Elvet was born in Durham and was in the service of John of Gaunt.[2] He succeeded his brother John as Archdeacon of Leicester in 1404. In 1424 he exchanged the Archdeaconry with John Legbourne for the benefice of Sedgefield.
Notes
- ↑ Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst, John; Hardy, Sir Thomas Duffus (1854). . Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. – via Wikisource.
- ↑ University of Leicester
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