John Bird (bishop)
John Bird (died 1558) was an English
He was Warden of the Carmelite house in Coventry, and twice Provincial of his order.
Life
He was one of the divines sent in 1531 to confer and argue with Thomas Bilney, the reformer, in prison; and in 1535 he was sent by Henry VIII along with Richard Foxe, the royal almoner, and Thomas Bedyll, a clerk of the council, to Catherine of Aragon, now divorced by Henry, to try to persuade her not to use the title queen.[5]
He was
After the accession of the Catholic Queen Mary he was deprived of his bishopric on 16 March 1554 since he had married.[8] He at once repudiated his wife, and soon afterwards Edmund Bonner, Bishop of London, appointed him as his suffragan, and on 6 November 1554 presented him to the vicarage of Great Dunmow in Essex.[9]
Near the end of 1558, he died in an obscure condition and was buried in Chester Cathedral.[5]
Notes
- ^ "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ^ "Friaries: Carmelite friars of Coventry | British History Online".
- ^ Fr. Richard Copsey, O.Carm. "THE MEDIEVAL CARMELITE PRIORY AT YORK". carmelite.org. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020.
- ^ "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Ancient Diocese of Chester".
- ^ a b Cooper 1896.
- ^ Parish of Penrhudd in Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments of Wales and Monmouthshire: VII – County of Pembroke (Google Books)
- ^ Christopher Haigh, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (1975), pp. 7-10.
- ^ John Gough Nichols (ed.), The Diary of Henry Machyn, London, 1848, p. 58.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bird, John (d.1558)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cooper, Thompson (1886). "Bird, John (d.1558)". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 5. London: Smith, Elder & Co.