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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1483 in Bury, Lancashire, England.
• Hij is overleden op 12 november 1555 in Whitehall, Southwark, Surrey, England, hij was toen 72 jaar oud.
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 5 april 2023.

Gezin van Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Margaret Grey.

Kind(eren):

1. George Gardiner  ± 1510-< 1548 

Notities over Stephen Gardiner Bishop of Winchester

Name Suffix: Bishop of Winchester
Ancestral File Number: 1RH5-ZLK
Stephen Gardiner
(1493-1555)
Born: 1493 at Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk
Bishopof Winchester
Died: 12th November 1555 at Whitehall Palace, Westminster, Middlesex
Stephen Gardiner, the famous malleus haereticorum, is said, though doub
tfully, to have been the illegitimate son of Lionel Woodville, Bishop of
Salisb ury and brother of Edward IV's queen. [Burke states that this was
not true and that he was the grandson of Jasper Tudor and an unmarried
Welsh woman]. He was born in 1483 at Bury St. Edmunds, öne of the best
airs in England,"says Fulle r, "the sharpness of which he retained in
his wit and quick apprehension." Afte r his education at Cambridge, he
passed from the family of theDuke of Norfolk into that of Wolsey, by
whom he was greatly favoured. Gardiner's services in th e cause of the
Cardinal, and in that of King Henry VIII, were rewarded on the d eath of
the former by the Bishopric of Winchester, Gardiner having been appoint
ed Archdeacon of Norwich in 1529.
In his book, de Vera Obedientia, Gardiner supported the Royal supremacy
claimed by King Henryand remained in tolerable f avour at court during
the remainder of that reign, not, however, without encoun tering sundry
perilous storms. His 'sanguinarytemper' is said to have been fir st
shown in his attack on Lambert and, moredecidedly, in the statute of the
si x articles. Usually known as the 'bloodystatute,' this famous law, on
which so many deniers of the 'real presence' were executed, was framed
and projected by Gardiner. For the greater part of the reign of Edward
VI, Gardiner was kept a close prisoner in the Tower and has, at least,
the merit of remaining firm to t he 'old religion'. This was instrong
contrast to the numerous company of "cham aelion statesmen" who changed
their creed as often as it became necessary.
I n 1550, Gardiner was deprived of his bishopric, to which, however, he
was resto red on the accession ofMary Tudor in 1553. In September of
that same year, the great seal was delivered to him and, on 1st October,
he placed the crown on th e head of Queen Mary. His share in the Marian
persecutions need here only be al luded to. Although it is probable that
the number of victims has been greatly e xaggerated and that the personal
cruelty of Gardiner and Bonner was less feroci ous than is usually the
fashion to represent it, there can be little doubt but that theformer,
at least, deserves much of the odium which popular hatred has cast upon
his name. "His malice," says Fuller, "was like what is commonly said of
white powder, which surely discharged the bullet, yet made no report,
beingsecret in all his acts of cruelty. This made him often chide
Bonner, callinghi m äss," though not so much for killing poor people, as
for not doing it more c unningly."
Great ill-will existed between Gardiner and Cardinal Pole, towhi ch it
is said that Cranmer owed the preservation of his life for some months. H
is execution did not, at all events, take place until after Gardiner's
death, w hich occurred at Westminster in 1555. "I have sinned with
Peter,"he is said to have exclaimed on his deathbed, " but I have not
wept with him." The story tol d by Fox, that Gardiner refused to dine on
the day of the burning of Ridley and Latimer, until he heard from his
servants posted along the road, that the fagg ots were kindled about
them, and that whilst at table he was seized with mortal illness, has
been effectively disproved. After lyingin state at Southwark, he was
conveyed to Winchester in a cart, hung with black and having his effigy
in episcopal robes placed without it. His chantry chapel may still be
seen on the north side of the altar at Winchester Cathedral
Trinity Hall was founded in 1 350 by William Bateman, Bishop of Norwich.
It is the fifth oldest college in Ca mbridge. Bisi

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