Kempe, John

Kempe, John

▪ English statesman and archbishop
born c. 1380, , near Ashford, Kent, Eng.
died March 22, 1454, London

      English ecclesiastical statesman who was prominent in the party struggles of the reign of King Henry VI (1422–61, 1470–71).

      Kempe began his career as an ecclesiastical lawyer and was soon employed on diplomatic missions for Henry V (reigned 1413–22). Upon the accession of the infant Henry VI, Kempe played a leading role in the Council of Regency as a supporter of Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester, who was engaged in a power struggle with Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Gloucester, Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of). In 1426 Kempe was appointed archbishop of York and chancellor of England. During Beaufort's prolonged absences from England, he kept Gloucester in check until, in 1432, Gloucester gained the upper hand and forced Kempe to resign.

      Created a cardinal in 1439, Kempe again became chancellor in 1450. He quickly suppressed Jack Cade's Kentish rebellion, and, as a leader of the Lancastrian party of Henry VI, he maintained the king's authority against powerful Yorkist rivals. The Lancastrians obtained his appointment as archbishop of Canterbury and cardinal bishop of Santa Rufina in 1452, but he died shortly before the Lancastrian-Yorkist rivalry erupted in civil war.

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