David Pole (bishop)
Roman Catholic | |
|---|---|
| Diocese | Peterborough |
| Appointed | 24 Mar 1557 |
| Term ended | 1559 |
| Predecessor | John Chambers |
| Successor | Edmund Scambler |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | 15 August 1557 by Nicholas Heath |
| Personal details | |
| Died | May 1568 |
David Pole (or Poole) (died May 1568) was an English Roman Catholic churchman and jurist; he was
Queen Elizabeth I
.
Life
He was a fellow of
archdeacon of Derby
on 8 January 1543.
He received the appointment of
heretics
, and to proceed against them.
On the death of John Chambers, the first bishop of the newly formed diocese of Peterborough, the queen sent letters commendatory to Pope Paul IV in Pole's favour. He was consecrated at Chiswick on 15 August 1557 by Nicholas Heath, archbishop of York. He shortly sanctioned the execution of John Kurde, a Protestant shoemaker, who was burnt at Northampton on 20 September 1557.[2]
On the accession of Elizabeth, he was on the first abortive commission for the consecration of
act of supremacy
was followed by his deprivation; but he was treated leniently by the queen. Allowed to live on parole in London or its suburbs, he died on one of his farms in May or June 1568. His property he left to his friends, and his books on law and theology to his college, All Souls'.
Footnotes
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Peach-Peyton
- ^ Foxe, in the 1570 edition of Acts and Monuments (p. 2257) says "His name was Iohn kurde a Shomaker, late of the Parish of Syrsam, in Northampton shiere" (apparently modern Syresham near Brackley.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Pole, David". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
