{{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | name = Henry of Sandwich | image = | religion = Roman Catholic | title = Bishop of London | elected = 13 November 1262 | consecration = 27 May 1263 | ended = 15 September 1273 | predecessor = Richard Talbot | successor = John Chishull | death_date = 15 September 1273 | previous_post = Prebendary of Weldland }}

'''Henry of Sandwich''' (died 1273) was a medieval Bishop of London.

==Life==

Henry was the son of Henry of Sandwich, a knight from Sandwich, Kent. He held the prebend of Weldland in the diocese of London.<ref name=BHOLondon>Greenway ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops]''</ref>

Henry was Archdeacon of Oxford from 1259 to 1262.<ref>Greenway ''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol3/pp35-39 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 3: Lincoln: Archdeacons of Oxford]''</ref> He was elected Bishop of London on 13 November 1262, confirmed 21 December and consecrated on 27 May 1263. He was suspended from office on 1 December 1265 but was reinstated by Pope Gregory X on 31 May 1272. He returned to England from exile on 31 January 1273.<ref name=BHOLondon/>

Henry died on 15 September 1273.<ref name=Handbook258>Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258</ref> After his death, his nephew Sir Ralph de Sandwich was made administrator of the See of London, having already acted as their administrator during Henry's exile in Rome.

==Citations== {{reflist}}

==References== * {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }} * {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Bishops |title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300|volume=1, St. Paul's, London|section-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol1/pp1-4 |access-date= 29 October 2007|publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1968}} * {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Archdeacons of Oxford |title= Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300|volume=3: Lincoln|section-url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1066-1300/vol3/pp35-39 |access-date= 14 January 2012 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1977}}

==External links== * {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=John |title=Men of Kent and Kentishmen |date=1892 |publisher=Cross & Jackman |location=Canterbury |pages=70–71 |edition=Subscription |chapter=Henry of Sandwich}}

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