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Walter Hart
Bishop of Norwich
Appointed	24 January 1446
Term ended	24 May 1472
Predecessor	Thomas Brunce
Successor	James Goldwell
Orders
Consecration	27 February 1446
Personal details
Died	24 May 1472
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Walter Hart (or Walter Lyhert; died 24 May 1472) was a medieval Bishop of Norwich. He was Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1435 to 1446. He was nominated as bishop on 24 January 1446 and was consecrated on 27 February 1446. He died on 24 May 1472.

The executors of his will are named as William Pykenham, archdeacon of Suffolk, John Bulman, Robert Hober, Henry Smyth, and another (illegible).

He features in the Paston Letters, especially their correspondence in 1469, when he was drawn into the efforts by her mother and brothers to prevent Margery Paston from marrying their bailiff Richard Calle.

Citations

‘Oxford College Histories: Oriel College’ Ranie, D.W. p58: London; F.E. Robinson & Co;1900
Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 262
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References

Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

Academic offices
Preceded byJohn Carpenter	Provost of Oriel College, Oxford 1435–1446	Succeeded byJohn Hals
Catholic Church titles
Preceded byThomas Brunce	Bishop of Norwich 1446–1472	Succeeded byJames Goldwell

v t e Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford
Predecessors	Adam de Brome William de Leverton William de Hawkesworth William de Daventre John de Colyntre John de Middleton John de Maldon John Possell John Rote William Corffe Thomas Leyntwardyn Henry Kayle Nicholas Herry John Carpenter Walter Lyhert John Hals Henry Sampson Thomas Hawkyns John Taylor Thomas Cornysh Edmund Wylsford James More Thomas Ware Henry Mynne William Haynes John Smyth Roger Marbeck John Belly Antony Blencowe William Lewis John Tolson John Saunders Robert Say George Royse George Carter Walter Hodges Chardin Musgrave John Clarke John Eveleigh Edward Copleston Edward Hawkins David Monro Charles Shadwell Lancelot Phelps David Ross George Clark Kenneth Turpin Michael Swann Zelman Cowen Ernest Nicholson Derek Morris Moira Wallace Neil Mendoza

Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford

Predecessors

v t e Bishops of Norwich
Bishops of Elmham	Bedwinus Northbertus Headulacus Æthelfrith Eanfrith Æthelwulf Alherdus Sybba Hunferthus Humbertus See interrupted Aethelweald Eadwulf Ælfric I Theodred I Theodred II Æthelstan Ælfgar Ælfwine Ælfric II Ælfric III Stigand Grimketel Stigand (again) Æthelmær Herfast see removed to Thetford
Bishops of Thetford	Herfast William de Beaufeu Herbert de Losinga see removed to Norwich
High Medieval	Herbert de Losinga Everard of Calne William de Turbeville John of Oxford John de Gray Pandulf Verraccio Thomas Blunville Simon of Elmham William de Raley Walter Suffield Simon Walton Roger Skerning William Middleton Ralph Walpole
Late Medieval	John Salmon Robert Baldock William Ayermin Thomas Hemenhale Antony Bek William Bateman Thomas Percy Henry le Despenser Alexander Tottington Richard Courtenay John Wakering William Alnwick Thomas Brunce Walter Hart James Goldwell Thomas Jane
Early modern	Richard Nykke William Rugg Thomas Thirlby John Hopton John Parkhurst Edmund Freke Edmund Scambler William Redman John Jegon John Overall Samuel Harsnett Francis White Richard Corbet Matthew Wren Richard Montagu Joseph Hall Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) Edward Reynolds Anthony Sparrow William Lloyd John Moore Charles Trimnell Thomas Green John Leng William Baker Robert Butts Thomas Gooch Samuel Lisle Thomas Hayter Philip Yonge Lewis Bagot George Horne Charles Manners-Sutton
Late modern	Henry Bathurst Edward Stanley Samuel Hinds John Pelham John Sheepshanks Bertram Pollock Percy Herbert Launcelot Fleming Maurice Wood Peter Nott Graham James Alan Winton (acting) Graham Usher

15th-century Bishop of Norwich

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