This is the first part of a long article on the fifteenth-century Archbishop of York, Thomas Rotherham, which I recently wrote for Blanc Sangliers, the quarterly journal of the Richard III Society Yorkshire Branch. jon rosling
Thomas Rotherham (1423-1500), Bishop of Lincoln (1471-1500), Second Founder of Lincoln College; Lincoln College, University of Oxford
Hanging above the high table of Lincoln College Hall in Oxford is a portrait of a man regarded as the second founder of the college[i], Thomas Rotherham, one-time Bishop of Lincoln and at the end of his life, Archbishop of York.
With its pious gaze and prayerful hands, the portrait has looked down on generations of Lincoln College students, overseeing their daily affairs in much the same way the Archbishop himself oversaw the running of England during his time as Lord Chancellor and confidante to the kings and queens of the late fifteenth century.
Amidst the steep, tree lined hills hills and chalky paths around Grindleford in Derbyshire lay the ruins of Padley Hall. 
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