Bradwardine

Bradwardine, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born about 1290 at Hartfield, Sussex. Educated at Merton College, Oxford, he afterwards became chancellor of the University, and professor of divinity. As chaplain and confessor of Edward III. he accompanied that sovereign to France, and was present at Crecy and the capture of Calais. On the death of Stratford, in 1348, Bradwardine was elected archbishop of Canterbury. He was on the Continent at the time of his election, and went direct to the papal court at Avignon for consecration. In 1349 he landed in England, and a few days after his arrival died of the black death. He was named "Doctor Profundus," from his treatise De Causa Dei contra Pelagium, et de virtute causarum.