George Cotes

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George Cotes (or Cotys) (died 1556) was an English academic and a Catholic bishop during the English Reformation.

He had been a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1522,^[2] and then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1527.^[3] He was Junior Proctor of Oxford University in 1531.^[4] It was some years before he was elected Master of Balliol College, in which post he served in the years 1539–1545.^[3]

With the accession of Queen Mary, he was chosen to succeed the former Carmelite John Bird, who had been deprived because he was married, as Bishop of Chester.^[5] Cotes was consecrated on 1 April 1554 by bishops Stephen Gardiner of Winchester, Edmund Bonner of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall of Durham, and received papal provision on 6 July 1554.^[5] However, he held the post for only a short period of time before he died in c. January 1556.^[5]

During the Marian Persecutions he had Protestant George Marsh burnt at the stake as a heretic.^[6]

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References[]

• F. Sanders, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries 1894 series 8-V (1894) 48–49.
• F. Huskisson & E. Marshall, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries series 8-V (1894) 153.

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