Robert Stillington was Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England. It is alleged by some that it was he who presented evidence that the marriage of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville was invalid due to Edward's earlier betrothal to Lady Eleanor Talbot.
In 1478 he spent some weeks in prison, apparently as a result of some association with the disgraced George, Duke of Clarence. He was imprisoned again in 1485, shortly after Henry VII's victory at Bosworth. Some say this was due to Stillington's involvement in the matter of Edward IV's bigamy, for the new king needed to reverse the bigamy charges that made his future queen, Elizabeth of York, illegitimate.
Some years after his second release, Stillington became involved in the plot to place the impostor Lambert Simnel on the throne (1487). He was imprisoned a third time, and died in prison.
RobertStillington was Bishop of Bath and Wells and Lord Chancellor of England.
Some say this was due to Stillington's involvement in the matter of Edward IV's bigamy, for the new king needed to reverse the bigamy charges that made his future queen, Elizabeth of York, illegitimate.
Some years after his second release, Stillington became involved in the plot to place the impostor Lambert Simnel on the throne (1487).
RobertStillington, already Keeper of the Privy Seal and Bishop of Bath and Wells (1466), became Chancellor of England in 1468.
By Edward IV, he was sent on a mission, the object of which was to induce the Duke of Brittany to deliver up the Lancastrian Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, who had taken refuge with him.
For some time the University refused to deliver him, asserting that to do so would be a violation of their privileges, since he was among them, to all appearance, for the prosecution of study.
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