1. William Waynflete founded Magdalen College, Oxford, and three subsidiary schools, namely Magdalen College School in Oxford, Magdalen College School, Brackley in Northamptonshire and Wainfleet All Saints in Lincolnshire.
17 Facts About William Waynflete
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William Waynflete was born in Wainfleet in Lincolnshire in about 1398.
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William Waynflete was the eldest son of Richard Patten, a merchant.
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William Waynflete's mother was Margery, daughter of Sir William Brereton of Brereton, Cheshire.
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William Waynflete had a younger brother named John, who later became the dean of Chichester.
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In 1429, William Waynflete became headmaster of Winchester College, a position which he held until 1441.
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William Waynflete was assigned as the principal executor of his will for that purpose, and if there was any variance between the executors, he was to determine it.
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When Jack Cade's rebellion broke out in 1450 William Waynflete was employed with Archbishop Stafford, the Chancellor, to negotiate with the rebels at St Margaret's Church, Southwark, close to Winchester House.
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That year William Waynflete acquired the reversion of the manor of Stanswick, Berks, from Lady Danvers for Magdalen Hall.
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Commissioners, headed by William Waynflete, were therefore sent to Henry to ask the king to name a new Chancellor, apparently intending that William Waynflete should be named.
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Whether, as alleged by some, William Waynflete fled and hid himself during the period covered by the battle of Wakefield and Edward's first parliament in 1461 is very doubtful.
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In 1474 William Waynflete, being the principal executor of Sir John Fastolf, who died in 1459 leaving a much-contested will, procured the conversion of his bequest for a collegiate church of seven priests and seven almsmen at Caistor, Norfolk, into one for seven fellows and seven poor scholars at Magdalen.
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In 1484 William Waynflete founded another Magdalen College School in his birth town of Wainfleet All Saints, Lincolnshire as a satellite feeder school for Magdalen College, Oxford.
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William Waynflete gave the same pecuniary bequests to Winchester and New Colleges as to his own college of Magdalen, but the latter he made residuary devisee of all his lands.
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William Waynflete was buried in the Magdalen Chapel at Winchester Cathedral.
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An annual memorial service, known as the William Waynflete Obit, is held in Winchester Cathedral on the anniversary of his death.
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William Waynflete projects are research projects undertaken by sixth formers at Magdalen College School, Oxford.