8 September 1539 A.D. John Stokesley Dies—93rd Bishop of London; Formerly Archdeacon of Dorset; Appointed 28 Mar 1530, Received the Temporalities 14 Jul 1530, & Consecrated 27 Nov 1530; Died in Office 8 Sept 1539
8 September 1539 A.D. John Stokesley Dies—93rd Bishop of London;
Formerly Archdeacon of Dorset; Appointed 28 Mar 1530, Received the
Temporalities 14 Jul 1530, & Consecrated 27 Nov 1539; Died in Office 8 Sept
1530
John Stokesley
Works
Stokesley was a man of learning, writing in favour of
Henry's divorce, and with Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, a
treatise against Henry VIII's kinsman Cardinal Pole.
References
Sources
John Stokesley
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c. 1530
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8 September 1539
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John Stokesley (c. 1475 – 8 September
1539) was an English church leader who was Catholic Bishop of London during the reign of Henry VIII.
Contents
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1 Life
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2 Works
Life
Stokesley was born at Collyweston in Northamptonshire,
and became a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in
1495, serving also as a lecturer. In 1498 he was made principal of Magdalen
Hall, and in 1505 vice-president of Magdalen College. Soon after 1509 he was
appointed a member of the royal council, and chaplain and almoner to Henry
VIII; he attended Henry as his chaplain at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in
1520. He succeeded his brother Richard as rector of North Luffenham in 1527.
In 1529 and 1530 he went to France and Italy as ambassador to Francis I and to gain opinions from
foreign universities in favour of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon.
He became Bishop of London in 1530, and in September 1533 he christened the future Queen Elizabeth. His later years
were troubled by disputes with Archbishop Cranmer; Stokesley opposed all changes in the doctrines of the church, remaining
hostile to the English Bible and
clerical marriage. Stokesley was a staunch opponent of Lutheranism and very
active in persecuting heretics.
In May 1538, the King's attorney took out a writ of Praemunire against Stokesley and, as accessories with him, against the Abbess Agnes
Jordan and the Confessor-General of Syon Abbey. Stokesley acknowledged his guilt, implored Thomas Cromwell's intercession, and threw himself on the King's mercy. He obtained the
King's pardon, for it was not the Bishop but Syon that Cromwell aimed at.
Works
Stokesley was a man of learning, writing in favour of
Henry's divorce, and with Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, a
treatise against Henry VIII's kinsman Cardinal Pole.
References
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This article incorporates text from a
publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia
Britannica (11th ed.).
Cambridge University Press.
Sources
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Henry VIII's Conservative
Scholar: Bishop John Stokesley and the Divorce, Royal Supremacy, and Doctrinal
Reform by Andrew A. Chibi; Published by Peter Lang Pub Inc (Jun
1997), ISBN
978-0-8204-3403-2
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8 September 1539 A.D. John Stokesley Dies—93rd Bishop of London;
Formerly Archdeacon of Dorset; Appointed 28 Mar 1530, Received the
Temporalities 14 Jul 1530, & Consecrated 27 Nov 1530; Died in Office 8 Sept
1530
Editors.
“John STOKESLEY.” Tudor Place. N.d. http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/JohnStokesley.htm. Accessed 10 Feb
2015.
John
STOKESLEY
(Bishop
of London)
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Born:
ABT 1475
Died:
8 Sep 1539
English
prelate, was born at Colly Weston in Northamptonshire, and became a fellow of
Magdalen College, serving also as a lecturer. In 1498 he was made principal of
Magdalen Hall, and in 1505 vice-president of Magdalen. College. Soon after 1509
he was appointed a member of the royal council and chaplain to Henry
VIII.
In 1520 he was at the Field
of the Cloth of Gold; in 1529 and 1530 he went to France and Italy as ambassador to Francois
I, accompanied by George
Boleyn, Lord Rochford. and to gain opinions from foreign
universities in favor of the kings divorce from Catalina
of Aragon.
In 1530 he became Bishop
of London.
In 1533 he christened the princess
Elizabeth,
and his later years were troubled by disputes with Archbishop
Cranmer.
Stokesley opposed all changes in the doctrines of the Church and was
very active in persecuting heretics.
The
clash between John Stokesley and Thomas
Cromwell,
Henry
VIII's
leading councillor, mirrored the larger clash between church and state. Stokesley,
a staunch opponent of Lutheranism, differed with Cromwell, who urged Henry to look to Germany's
Lutheran principalities for an ally.
In
1539 all Catholic monastic orders were suppressed due to their resistance to Henry
VIII's
religious policy. Of all the English monasteries only Syon
Abbey
refused to surrender. So Cromwell devised another method
to suppress the monastery and gain possession of its property. In May 1538, the
King's attorney took out a
writ of Praemunire against John Stokesley, Bishop of London, and, as
accessories with him, against the Abbess Agnes Jordan and the Confessor-General
of Syon, accusing the Bishop of having officiated on three occasions, in
1537 and 1538, at the profession of Brethren at Syon; that on these
occasions he had executed a bull of Pope Martin (A.D. 1418) attributing
authority to the See of Rome and to the present Bishop of Rome, and that
thereby those taking part had made themselves liable to the penalty of
praemunire. The punishment for praemunire was: "They should be out of
the King's Protection, attached by their Bodies and lose their Lands,
Tenements, Goods and Chattets". Stokesley, taken into custody,
acknowledged his guilt, implored Cromwell's intercession, and
threw himself on the King's mercy. He obtained
the King's pardon in JuI, for
it was not the Bishop but Syon that Cromwell aimed at.
Stokesley was a man of learning,
writing in favor of Henrys divorce, and with Cuthbert
Tunstall, Bishop of Durham, a treatise against Cardinal
Pole.
He
died on the 8 Sep 1539.
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