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List of papal legates to England

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This is a list of papal legates sent by the Holy See to England. The legature was suppressed under Henry VIII, and restored under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1553 to 1558).

Legates, 1066–1558

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Notes

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  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. ^ a b Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149

References

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  • 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. (1999). 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.