Famous English Pilgrims
William Wey
William Wey was born in 1407, in Devonshire (England). He was a student in Exeter College, Oxford and in a foundation made by the king Henry VI. He obtained the license of “his king and founder” to make the pilgrimage to Saint James’s shrine. He sailed on 17 May 1456 from Plymouth to A Coruña. He arrived in A Coruña on 21 May, and he was in our city for four days.
On his travels he made a diary. In that diary William told things like the number of English ships he could count in the harbour in A Coruña or the name of the boat in which he travelled.
William Wey died in 1476 – 20 years after his pilgrimage to Santiago. - At Edington priory where a chapel housed his treasures from his travels.
William Wey was an important pilgrim from England. sit
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Medieval Pilgrimage in A Coruña