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 in 1536, and restored shortly under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1553 to 1558) and King James II of England (from 1686 to 1688).

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
• 1166- ? - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury ^[6]
• 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
• 1536–1553 : no relations
• 1553–1557 - Reginald Pole
• 1557–1558 - William Petow
• 1570–1686 : no relations
• 1686–1688 : Ferdinando d'Adda
• 1688–1914 : no relations

See also

• Apostolic Nunciature to Great Britain

Notes

1. Barlow Feudal Kingdom of England p. 159
2. Eadmer. Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964. 131
3. ‘Papal legates to medieval Britain and Ireland in the Oxford DNB’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. accessed 4 July 2016
4. Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 555
5. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149
6. The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Letter 71"Ex injuncto nobis" 2 May 1166, Translated by Anne Duggan, Clarendon Press, 2000.

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.