List of papal legates to England
This is a list of papal legates sent by the Holy See to England. The legature was suppressed under Henry VIII, and restored under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1553 to 1558).
Legates, 1066–1558
- 1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester
- 1095 - Walter of Albano[1]
- 1101- Guy, Archbishop of Vienna (Later Pope Callixtus II)[2]
- 1115–1120? - Anselm of St Saba[3]
- 1125 - John of Crema[4]
- 1126–1130 - William de Corbeil[5]
- 1132–1136 - William of Corbeil[5]
- 1138–1139 - Alberic of Ostia
- 1139–1143 - Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
- 1149-1159 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1190 - William Longchamp
- 1213 - Niccolò de Romanis, Bishop of Tusculum
- 1213–1216 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich (as legatus missus/nuncio)
- 1216–1218 - Guala Bicchieri
- 1218–1221 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich
- 1237/1240 - Otto of Tonengo
- 1265–1268 - Ottobuono Fieschi, later Pope Adrian V
- 1518–1530 - Thomas Wolsey
- 1536–1557 - Reginald Pole
- 1557–1558 - William Petow
Notes
- ^ Barlow Feudal Kingdom of England p. 159
- ^ Eadmer. Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964. 131
- ^ ‘Papal legates to medieval Britain and Ireland in the Oxford DNB’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. accessed 4 July 2016
- ^ Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 555
- ^ a b Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149
References
- Barlow, Frank (1988). The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216 (Fourth ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49504-0.
- Bartlett, Robert C. (2000). England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822741-8.
- Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (2002). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.