Michael Tregury

Michael Tregury, in French Michel Trégore or Trégorre (died 1471), was Archbishop of Dublin from 1450 to 1471.

Life Michael Tregury was born in the parish of St Wenn in Cornwall. He was educated at the University of Oxford, and was at some time a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He is said to have been an outstanding scholar.

He was chaplain to Henry VI of England and a distinguished scholar. He became the first rector of the University of Caen in 1439. He was Archdeacon of Barnstaple from 1445 to 1449. He was consecrated in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin and was Archbishop of Dublin from 1450 to 1471. On the journey to Ireland he was shipwrecked and lost most of his valuables.

Like his predecessor Archbishop Talbot, he evidently had something of a temper: in 1465 he was accused in Parliament of assaulting Stephen Fitzwilliam, with whom he had a long-standing quarrel, but acquitted. He was a noted music lover, and owned a pair of organs, which he bequeathed to St Patrick's Cathedral.

Having presided over his see for twenty years, he died on 21 December 1471, at a very advanced age, in the manor-house of Tallaght, which he had previously repaired. His remains were conveyed to Dublin attended by the clergy and citizens, and were buried in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

Burial He was buried in Dublin and his epitaph reads:

Preasul Metropolis Michael hic Dublinenus Marmore tumbatus, pro me Christum flagitetis which translates as Here's Michael the Prelate of Dublin See, In Marble intomb'd, invoke Christ for me.