Peche was probably the son of Robert Peche who was Bishop of Lichfield from 1121 to 1128. He was definitely the son of a priest, as Ralph de Diceto wrote about him and justified the elevation of a son of a priest to the episcopacy. He was Archdeacon of Coventry, and may have been given that office by his father, although the first record of him as an archdeacon is from about 1140.[1]
Peche resigned the see in 1182, died on 6 October 1182 and was buried at St Thomas' church, Stafford.[2] After his resignation, he took the habit of an Augustiniancanon at Stafford,[6] although the story that he founded the house he retired has since been proven to be not the case.[1]
Citations
^ abcdFranklin "Peche, Richard" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
^ abFryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 253
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996). Handbook of British Chronology (Third revised ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-56350-X.
Knowles, David (1976). The Monastic Order in England: A History of its Development from the Times of St. Dunstan to the Fourth Lateran Council, 940–1216 (Second reprint ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-05479-6.