George Cromer
The Most Reverend George Cromer | |
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Archbishop of Armagh Primate of All Ireland | |
Church | Roman Catholic |
Archdiocese | Armagh |
Appointed | 2 October 1521 |
In office | 1521-1543 |
Predecessor | John Kite |
Successor | George Dowdall |
Orders | |
Consecration | April 1522 |
Personal details | |
Died | 16 March 1542 |
Nationality | English |
George Cromer (died 16 March 1542) was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII of England, from 1521/2.[1]
He was English by birth, a descendant of the Cromer (also spelt Crowemer) family of Tunstall, Kent and Cromer, Norfolk. Caught up in Henry's Reformation of the Church of England, he was deprived of his See of Armagh.[2] He continued in place as Archbishop of Armagh, despite suspicions from Henry about his true beliefs and despite being suspended by the Pope on a charge of heresy.[3][4]
He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1532-4, as a placeman of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, whose family dominated Irish politics from the 1470s until the late 1530s, and wielded such power that they were known as "the uncrowned Kings of Ireland".[5][6]
References[]
- Chapter in A.J. Hughes, William Nolan (eds.) (2001), Armagh: Interdisciplinary essays on the History of an Irish County
Notes[]
- ^ The Succession of the Bishops of Armagh [ Succession list ] : Free Genealogy Pages from Ulster Ancestry
- ^ George Cromer
- ^ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ MacCaffrey, James. "History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution, Volume 2". Archived from the original on 26 August 2005. Retrieved 31 October 2020. dating this at 1539.
- ^ Garrett, Ninth Earl of Kildare (1513–1534)
- ^ [1], [2]. Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
External links[]
- Roman Catholic archbishops of Armagh
- Lord Chancellors of Ireland
- 16th-century English bishops
- 16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Ireland
- 1542 deaths
- Anglican archbishops of Armagh
- British expatriate archbishops