Cuthbert Tunstall
Roman Catholic | |
|---|---|
| Diocese | Diocese of Durham |
| Elected | 1530; 1556 |
| Term ended | 1552; 1559 (twice deprived) |
| Predecessor | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey |
| Successor | James Pilkington |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of London 1522–1530 |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 19 October 1522 by William Warham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1474 |
| Died | 18 November 1559 |
| Nationality | English |
| Parents | Thomas Tunstall |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Cuthbert Tunstall (otherwise spelt Tunstal or Tonstall; 1474 – 18 November 1559) was an
Childhood and early career
Cuthbert Tunstall was born in
Little is known of Tunstall's early life, except that he spent two years as a kitchen boy in the household of Sir Thomas Holland, perhaps at
Tunstall was made
Protestantism
Tunstall met William Tyndale in 1523 seeking patronage to translate the Bible (into contemporaneous Early Modern English,) which Tunstall declined, saying he already funded several scholars. Tunstall, who preferred burning heretical books to heretics,[9] later presided over the buying up and burning of almost all copies of the first edition of Tyndale's New Testament at Paul's Cross in October 1526. According to some scholars this helped fund Tyndale's subsequent improved edition,[2] as Thomas More had warned.[10]: 81
Bishop of Durham under Henry VIII and Edward VI
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On 22 February 1530, again by papal provision, Tunstall succeeded Cardinal Wolsey as
In the question of
Tunstall disliked the religious policy pursued by the advisers of King
Bishop of Durham under Mary I and Elizabeth I
On the accession of the Catholic Queen
When the Protestant
He was buried in the parish church of St Mary-at-Lambeth, now a deconsecrated building.[12]
The Anglican historian Albert F. Pollard wrote:[13]
Tunstall's long career of eighty-five years, for thirty-seven of which he was a bishop, is one of the most consistent and honourable in the sixteenth century. The extent of the religious revolution under Edward VI caused him to reverse his views on the royal supremacy and he refused to change them again under Elizabeth.
Works
- De arte supputandi libri quattuor(1522)
- Based on the Summa of Luca Pacioli, this was the first printed work published in England that was devoted exclusively to mathematics.
- Confutatio cavillationum quibus SS. Eucharistiae Sacramentum ab impiis Caphernaitis impeti solet (Paris, 1552)
- De veritate corporis et sanguinis domini nostri Jesu Christi in eucharistia (Paris, 1554)
- Compendium in decem libros ethicorum Aristotelis (Paris, 1554)
- Certaine godly and devout prayers made in Latin by C. Tunstall and translated into Englishe by Thomas Paynelle, Clerke (London, 1558).
- Tunstall's correspondence as president of the Council of the North is in the British Library.
See also
- James Stonnes (b. 1513; d. after 1585) Catholic priest, ordained by Tunstall in 1539
Notes
- ^ Historical Anecdotes of Heraldry and Chivalry: Tending to Shew the Origin of, By Mrs. Dobson (Susannah)[1]
- ^ a b c Newcombe, D. G. "Tunstal, Cuthbert (1474–1559)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
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- ISBN 0-393-96145-1.
- ^ a b "Bishop Tunstall: The man who survived the Tudors by calculating the odds". Durham University Library and Collections Blog. 14 March 2022. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ Project MUSE - Languages in the Lutheran Reformation: Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas. Project MUSe, Amsterdam University.
- ^ In Worms he was an early reader of Luther's On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, writing: "They say there is much more strange opinions in it near to the opinions of Bohemia (Hussites). I pray God keep that book out of England." 1. ‘Quae pestis unquam tam perniciosa invasit gregem christi?’: The Role of the Book in the Reception of Lutheranism in England[6]
- ^ a b c d e f Chisholm 1911.
- ^ "No one was ever burned in the diocese of Durham under Tunstall’s rule. " "Bishop Tunstall: The man who survived the Tudors by calculating the odds". Durham University Library and Collections Blog. 14 March 2022.
- ISSN 0044-0175.
- ^ Phillips, G. E. (1905). The Extinction of the Ancient Hierarchy. London: Sands. p. 23. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Pollard, A. E. (1899). Dictionary of National Biography. New York: Macmillan. p. 58:314. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Tunstall, Cuthbert". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 410.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Burton, Edwin (1912). "Cuthbert Tunstall". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company.- Pollard, Albert Frederick (1899). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Newcombe, D. G. "Tunstal, Cuthbert (1474–1559)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27817. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
