List of papal legates to England explained

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

• 1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester
• 1095 - Walter of Albano^[1]
• 1101- Guy, Archbishop of Vienna (Later Pope Callixtus II)^[2]
• 1115–1120? - Anselm of St Saba^[3]
• 1125 - John of Crema^[4]
• 1126–1130 - William de Corbeil^[5]
• 1132–1136 - William of Corbeil^[5]
• 1138–1139 - Alberic of Ostia
• 1139–1143 - Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
• 1149-1159 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1190 - William Longchamp
• 1213 - Niccolò de Romanis, Bishop of Tusculum
• 1213–1216 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich (as legatus missus/nuncio)
• 1216–1218 - Guala Bicchieri
• 1218–1221 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich
• 1237/1240 - Otto of Tonengo
• 1265–1268 - Ottobuono Fieschi, later Pope Adrian V
• 1518–1530 - Thomas Wolsey
• 1536–1557 - Reginald Pole
• 1557–1558 - William Petow

References

• Book: Frank Barlow (historian)

. Barlow, Frank . The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042–1216. Frank Barlow (historian). Fourth . Longman . New York . 1988 . 0-582-49504-0 .

• Book: Robert Bartlett (historian)

. Bartlett, Robert C. . Robert Bartlett (historian) . England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075–1225 . Clarendon Press . Oxford . 2000 . 0-19-822741-8 . registration .

• Book: Katharine Keats-Rohan

. Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. . Katharine Keats-Rohan . Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum . Boydell Press . Ipswich, UK . 1999 . 0-85115-863-3 .

Notes and References

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. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149