Robert Chichele

Sir Robert Chichele (sometimes shown as Chichley[1] or other variations) was a 15th-century English merchant and Lord Mayor of London.

[2] He was the son of Thomas Chichele of Higham Ferrers and Agnes Pyncheon, and the brother of Henry Chichele, the Archbishop of Canterbury and founder of All Souls College, Oxford.

He received letters patent ordering him (along with then-mayor Richard Whittington) to seek out and imprison any Lollards within the city.

[5] Robert was buried in the church of St Mary Bothaw.

[6] Through his daughter, Phillippa, he was an ancestor of Sir Andrew Judde, a later Lord Mayor of London.