Robert Holgate
The Most Reverend Robert Holgate | |
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Archbishop of York | |
Installed | 1545 |
Term ended | 1554 |
Predecessor | Edward Lee |
Successor | Nicholas Heath |
Personal details | |
Born | 1481/1482 |
Died | 1555 |
Robert Holgate (1481/1482 – 1555) was Bishop of Llandaff from 1537 and then Archbishop of York (from 1545 to 1554). He recognised Henry VIII as head of the Church of England.
Holgate was a canon of the Gilbertine Order, and was probably educated at the Gilbertine house (St Edmund's Priory) at Cambridge. He was university preacher at Cambridge in 1524, and was created D.D. in 1537.[1]
Although a protege of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, Holgate had a distinguished monastic career. He was Prior of St. Catherine's Priory, Lincoln, Master of the Gilbertine Order, and also briefly Prior of Watton Priory until its dissolution in 1539. Most of the Gilbertine houses were lesser establishments which should have been dissolved under the Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535 (only four out of twenty-six houses had revenues over £200 a year). However, Holgate is credited with using his influence to save them for a few years. For example, Malton Priory, one of the lesser Gilbertine houses, was the last of them to surrender in December 1539,[2] whereas Sempringham Priory, worth more than £200 a year, surrendered in 1538.[3]
Holgate was consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff on 25 March 1537. He translated to York on 16 January 1545. At York in 1546, he founded a school, now called Archbishop Holgate's School.
He was President of the Council of the North from 1538.[4]
In 1550 Holgate, aged 68, married Barbara Wentworth, who was about 25 at the time. This might, however have been a second wedding to make it fully legal, and Holgate and Wentworth might have first married in late 1547 with Roger Tongue officiating.[5] In 1551 Anthony Norman claimed that he was already married to Barbara Wentworth, but the courts decided that their marriage when she was about seven had not been a binding legal transaction. Robert and Barbara remained married until 1553, when shortly after Mary I of England came to the throne. She imprisoned Holgate on various charges, with his being a married cleric being central to these. In 1554 Holgate renounced his marriage claiming he had only entered it to avoid suspicion as a papist. In January 1555 Holgate was released from prison, but he was not restored to priestly office. He died later that year.[6]
In 1558 a Robert Holgate from Yorkshire entered Christ's College, Cambridge.[7] He may have been a son of Holgate, since there are some claims he had two children by Barbara, but there is no conclusive evidence on the matter.
References
- This article contains public domain text from William Page's Houses of the Gilbertine order: The priory of Sempringham, A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2 (1906)
- ^ "Holgate, Robert (HLGT537R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Gilbertine houses: Priory of Malton. A History of the County of York: Volume 3 (1974), pp. 253-254 (Public domain text), accessed via British History Online.
- ^ Page, William, 'Houses of the Gilbertine order: The priory of Sempringham', A History of the County of Lincoln: Volume 2 (1906), pp. 179–187, (Public domain text), accessed via British History online
- ^ After the dissolution
- ^ Dickens, A. G. (January 1947). "Robert Parkyn's Narrative of the Reformation". English Historical Review. 62 (242): 71–72.
- ^ Dickens, A. G. (July 1937). "The Marriage and Character of Archbishop Holgate". English Historical Review. 52 (207): 428–442.
- ^ "Holgate, Robert (HLGT557R)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
External links
- Archbishop Holgate's School
- H.L. Parish, ‘Holgate, Robert (1481/2–1555)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 June 2007
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Preceded by | Bishop of Llandaff 1537–1545 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Archbishop of York 1545–1554 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Master of the Gilbertine Order –1539 | Vacant Title next held by None |
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