Henry Cotton (bishop) explained
Henry Cotton |
Birth Date: | c.1545 |
Death Date: | 7 May 1615 |
Nationality: | English |
Occupation: | Bishop |
Years Active: | 1598-1615 |
Known For: | Bishop of Salisbury |
Henry Cotton (c.1545–7 May 1615) was an English bishop.
Life
He was the son of Sir Richard Cotton of Warblington, Hampshire, and his wife Jane Onley.
He was a godson to Elizabeth I of England, and one of her chaplains.[1] He was rector of Havant in 1567.[2] [3]
He was elected Bishop of Salisbury on 28 September 1598. He gained Royal Assent on 24 October, was confirmed on 11 November, and consecrated at Lambeth the next day, and had the temporalities restored to him on 23 December 1598.[4] In his time as bishop, a long-running struggle by the city of Salisbury for its charter was resolved, in 1612.[5]
He died in 1615 and was buried "in his own church"[6] beside his wife, as he had requested in his Will.
Notes and References
- Gleeson White, The cathedral church of Salisbury; a description of its fabric and a brief history of the see of Sarum (1901), p. 110.
- Web site: Rectors of St. Faith's Church in Havant, Hampshire . 2009-01-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090201021952/http://www.stfaith.com/rectors%20of%20havant.htm . 2009-02-01 . dead .
- http://www.southernlife.org.uk/havantch.htm The Church of St Faith Havant
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=35081&strquery=%22Henry%20Cotton%22 Bishops | Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 6 (pp. 1-5)
- http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=41792 Salisbury - Relations with the bishops, to 1612 | A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (pp. 101-103)
- Web site: Britton . John . 1814 . The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (pp. 48) . 3 January 2022 . Google Books.