Richard Elvet

{{Short description|English priest}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Richard Elvet''' was an [[England|English]] [[priest]] in the early [[15th-century|15th century]].<ref>{{cite wikisource |last1=Le NeveRoger de Saxenhurst |first1=John |last2=Hardy |first2=Sir Thomas Duffus |author1-link=John Le Neve |author2-link=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Archdeacons of Leicester |wslink=Page:Fasti_ecclesiae_Anglicanae_Vol.2_body_of_work_part_1.djvu/73 |series=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2 |year=1854 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=59–63 |wspages=65–69 }}</ref>

Elvet was born in [[County Durham|Durham]] and was in the service of [[John of Gaunt]].<ref>[https://www.le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/CocksvolumeLXVII-5sm.pdf University of Leicester]</ref> He succeeded his brother [[John Elvet|John]] as [[Archdeacon of Leicester]] in 1404. In 1424 he exchanged the Archdeaconry with [[John Legbourne]] for the [[benefice]] of [[Sedgefield]].

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==See also== * [[Diocese of Lincoln]] * [[Anglican Diocese of Peterborough|Diocese of Peterborough]] * [[Diocese of Leicester]] * [[Archdeacon of Leicester]]

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