Sir Robert Chichele (sometimes shown as Chichley or other variations) was a 15th-century English merchant and

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. He was the son of Thomas Chichele of Higham Ferrers and Agnes Pyncheon, and the brother of

Henry Chichele Henry Chichele ( ; also Checheley; – 12 April 1443) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1414–1443) and founded All Souls College, Oxford. Early life Chichele was born at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, in 1363 or 1364; Chichele told Pope Eu ...

, the

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and founder of

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. Another brother, William, also served as

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in 1409. Robert served as an alderman for Aldgate Ward from 1402, when he also served as

before being elected twice as Lord Mayor of London, in 1411 and again in 1421. He received letters patent ordering him (along with then-mayor

Richard Whittington Richard Whittington ( March 1423) of the parish of St Michael Paternoster Royal,Will of Richard Whittington: " I leave to my executors named below the entire tenement in which I live in the parish of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, Londo/ ...

) to seek out and imprison any

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within the city. In 1414 and 1415 he was Member of Parliament for the

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as one of the two aldermanic representatives. Robert was buried in the church of

St Mary Bothaw St Mary Bothaw (or Saint Mary Boatehaw by the Erber) was a parish church in the Walbrook ward of the City of London. It was destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666 and not rebuilt. However, some of its materials were used in the rebuildin ...

. Through his daughter, Phillippa, he was an ancestor of Sir

Andrew Judde Sir Andrew Judde or Judd ( – 4 September 1558) was a 16th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London. He was knighted on 15 February 1551. Biography He was born before February, 1492, in Tonbridge, Kent, the third son of John ...

, a later Lord Mayor of London. Cox, John Edmundbr> "The Annals of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, London"
pg. 247

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Chichele, Robert Sheriffs of the City of London 14th-century births 15th-century deaths Members of the Parliament of England for the City of London 15th-century lord mayors of London

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