Richard de Billingford (died 1432)[1] wasChancellor of theUniversity of Cambridge,[2] holding the position three times, from 1400–1402, 1406-1413 and in 1432.[3]
From 1398 to 1432 he was also Master ofCorpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he endowed a loan chest in which college members could deposit valuable objects as security for loans taken from the chest which would be sold if the loan was not repaid.[2] The extant chest is kept in theParker Library, Corpus Christi College.[4] He was buried inSt Bene't's Church, which was formerly used as the college chapel.[2]
In 1413 as Chancellor he was sent byHenry V to Rome during theWestern Schism as part of a delegation to tell the two Popes that unless one would step down, the King would recognise neither.[5]
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