Oxford
A Fellow of Queen's
Nothing is known of Nicholas Hereford's birth or family. He first appears as a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford, around 1370, a college where John Wycliffe himself rented rooms. By 1382 he was a doctor of theology and one of the boldest of Wycliffe's disciples in the university.
In the spring of 1382, as Archbishop William Courtenay prepared his council at Blackfriars, Hereford preached at Oxford in defense of Wycliffe's teaching and against the friars and the bishops. He was summoned before the council, refused to submit to its condemnations, and that summer was excommunicated with his fellow disciple Philip Repington.
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