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STOKESLEY, JOHN (c. 1475-1539)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 953 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: STE-SUS
STOKESLEY, JOHN (c. 1475-1539) , English prelate, was born at Colly Weston in
Northamptonshire
 , and became a fellow of Magdalen College, serving also as a lecturer. In 1498 he was made principal of Magdalen
Hall
 , and in 1505 vice-president of Magdalen College. Soon after 1509 he was appointed a member of the royal council and chaplain to
Henry
  VIII. In 1520 he was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold; in 1529 and 1530 he went to France and Italy as
ambassador
  to Francis I. and to gain opinions from foreign universities in favour of the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. In 153o he became bishop of London. In 1533 he christened the princess Elizabeth, and his later years were troubled by disputes with Archbishop Cranmer. Stokesley opposed all changes in the doctrines of the Church and was very active in persecuting heretics. He was a man of learning, writing in favour of
Henry
 's divorce, and with Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of Durham, a treatise against Cardinal Pole. He died on the 8th of September, 1539.


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