5 September 1569 A.D. Bishop Edmund “Bloody” Bonner Dies in Marshalea Prison, London
5 September 1569 A.D. Bishop Edmund “Bloody” Bonner Dies in Marshalea Prison, London
Editors. “Edmund Bonner.”
Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/73155/Edmund-Bonner. Accessed 11 Feb
2015.
Bonner
became an outstanding Oxford lawyer, and from 1532 to 1543 he served Henry
VIII on various foreign embassies, including several to Pope Clement
VII to plead for an annulment of Henry’s marriage to
Catherine of Aragon. Having supported Henry when the king took control of the
English church, Bonner was made bishop of London in 1540. But upon the
accession of Edward VI, Bonner, with Stephen
Gardiner, felt he could no longer accept royal supremacy in
religious matters. As a result he was deprived of his London bishopric and
imprisoned from 1549 to 1553. Restored to his see on Aug. 5, 1553, after the
accession of Mary Tudor, he was rebuked by Mary’s government for his reluctance
to intensify the prosecution of Protestants in London, but subsequently he
became actively involved. At the beginning of Elizabeth’s reign he was again
deprived of his bishopric because he refused to acknowledge her supremacy over
the English church, and he spent the last 10 years of his life in the Marshalsea Prison in London.
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