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.
- 1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester
- 1095 - Walter of Albano[1]
- 1115-1120? - Anselm of St Saba[2]
- 1125 - John of Crema[3]
- 1126-1130 - William of Corbeil[4]
- 1132-1136 - William of Corbeil[4]
- 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 da 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
- ‘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
- 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. (1999). 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.
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