William Barlow (bishop of Chichester)
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William Barlow (also spelled Barlowe; c. 1498 – 13 August 1568) was an English Augustinian
Life
William Barlow was born in
An Augustinian
Already by 1526 he was in contact with the literature of the Protestant reformers, and he may have been the courier who brought a work of JohannesCourt circles
There is little factual evidence to suggest that Barlow played a major role in the Court of Henry VIII. The main reference linking him with a courtly position is contained in one of Henry's letters to James V of Scotland. This letter of October 1535 introduces "our trusty and right welbeloved Counsaillour Mr Barlowe, Clerke, Pryour of the Monastery of Bisham, being sufficiently instructed in the specialities of certain grete and weighty causes."[14] Much has been made of his supposed involvement with the king's 'great matter'; his desire to rid himself of Queen Catherine by getting his marriage to her annulled. However, a careful study of all the available communications and other documents suggests that it was William's brother John Barlow who played the major role. It was certainly he who was closely associated with the Bullen (Boleyn) family, not William.
What is apparent is that William Barlow was appointed as prior of
William experienced hostile opposition to his reformist ideas and teaching and, with the support of
Missions to Scotland
William Barlow, then Prior of the Monastery of Bisham, was sent to Scotland in October 1534. He went again to James V of Scotland with William Howard in February 1536. Barlow wrote to Cromwell discussing the miseries of the English border people who were not well served by the judiciary, and compared their situation to the rule of a corrupt Abbot whose officers live in luxury and support his power whilst the brothers live in grievous wretchedness. In Edinburgh, Barlow encountered the suspicions of the King's Catholic advisors, who feared he had come to preach or take away Henry VIII's sister Margaret Tudor. Howard in his letter of 25 April 1536 referred to Barlow as 'My Lord of Saint David,' and regretted that Barlow could not advise him during his meeting with James V at Stirling Castle on Good Friday.[20]
Howard and Barlow were in Edinburgh in May 1536, and learnt of a plan for James V to marry his mistress
Bishop in Wales
In 1536, he was successively
He was involved in quarrels with his chapter, who sent up a series of articles addressed to the President of the
In despair of the western district around
Barlow also took part in general ecclesiastical politics. He signed the articles drawn up in 1536. He shared in composing the
Bath and Wells
Early in the reign of
He was now married to Agatha Wellesbourne. This marriage or relationship apparently anticipated the formal lifting of the requirement of clerical celibacy; the subsequent tradition around the large family of the Barlows has been attributed to compensatory apologetics.[36]
Later life
When
Under Elizabeth I he was bishop of Chichester. Almost immediately she compelled him by Act of Parliament to give up manors, including Selsey.[1][41]
Works
It has been argued that pamphlets by Friar Jerome Barlow (or Barlowe) were by William Barlow.[9][42][43] Scholars remain divided on the issue. It may be that the independent work of both men has been compounded as that of a single author[44]
A work A dialogue describing the originall ground of these Lutheran faccions, and many of their abuses from 1531, printed by William Rastell, was reissued in 1553. It takes Martin Luther to be a heretic, and in it Barlow explains that contact with Lutherans had led into a temporary apostasy.[45] George Joye accused Thomas More of being the real author.[46]
Family
His five daughters each married clergymen who were to become bishops:
- Anne to Herbert Westfaling, Bishop of Hereford;
- Elizabeth to William Day, Bishop of Winchester;
- Margaret to William Overton, Bishop of Lichfield;
- Frances, after her first husband Parker's death, to Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York; and
- Antonia to William Wickham, Bishop of Winchester.[47]
Two sons lived to maturity:
- William Barlow (1544–1625), writer on magnetism was his eldest son;[48]
- John Barlow (1549–1634), a gentleman of Petersfield, Hampshire. He was employed as a surveyor of woodland by the Dean and Chapter of Winchester Cathedral.[49]
His wife Agatha died in 1595; there is a memorial to her in Easton, Hampshire.[50][51]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Chamber's Biographical Dictionary (1912).
- ^ Heather Dalton Merchants & Explorers, Roger Barlow, Sebastian Cabot & Networks of Atlantic Exchange 1500–1560 Oxford University Press (2016)
- ^ Victoria County Histories : "A History of the County of Norfolk Vol.2" (1906)
- ^ Glanmor Williams : entry for William Barlow in New Dictionary of National Biography (2015)
- ^ "Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Bromehill". A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1906. 374-375. British History Online Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ The Works of John Bramhall, Vol.3, Page227 (1844)
- ^ E.G.Rupp : "Studies in the Making of the English Protestant Tradition" (1947)
- ^ a b c "Barlow, William (1499?-1568), Bishop.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Bromehill". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Letters & Papers of Henry VIII, Volume 4, page 1864
- ^ Alistair Fox, Thomas More: History and Providence (1982), note p. 129.
- ^ Andrew Mclean : A noughtye and false lyeng boke : William Barlow and the Lutheran Factions : Renaissance Quarterly 31, No.2 (1978)
- ^ State Papers of Henry VIII, vol.7
- ^ a b "History of Pembrokeshire". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Letters & Papers of Henry VIII, Volume 8, page 160 and page 181
- ^ "Houses of Austin canons: The priory of Bisham". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Skelton, R. A. (1979) [1966]. "Cabot, Sebastian". In Brown, George Williams (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. I (1000–1700) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
- ^ "Slebech Estate Records". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 5, part IV part 2 (1836) 7, 17–20, 36–38, 42
- ^ State Papers Henry VIII, vol. 5 part IV part 2, (1836), 46–49, Howard and Barlow to Henry VIII and Cromwell, 13 May 1536; 52, 23 May 1536.
- ^ Samuel Kinns, "Six hundred years"; or, Historical sketches of eminent men and women who have more or less come into contact with the abbey and church of Holy Trinity, Minories, from 1293 to 1893 (1898), pp. 196–9; PDF.
- ^ F.O. White, "Lives of the Elizabethan Bishops of the Anglican Church" (1898), p.8.
- ^ The Apostolical Succession of the English Clergy Traced from the Earliest Times, And, in the Four Dioceses of Canterbury, London, Norwich, and Ely, Continued to the Year M.DCCC.LXII. p. 8 (Google Books)
- ^ Duffy, p. 404.
- ^ http://www.shrinesofourlady.com/_eng/shrines/ceredigion.asp?cid=3&ccode=wal[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://www.welshabbey.org.uk/english/dissolution/[permanent dead link]
- ^ Robert Hutchinson, Thomas Cromwell (2007), p. 161.
- ^ "Friends of Carmarthen Museum". Archived from the original on 14 August 2013. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Sir Henry Vaughans Company: Reenacting the Great Civil War at Carmarthenshire County Museum". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Maria Dowling, Humanism in the Age of Henry VIII (1986), p. 131.
- ^ Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996), p. 294.
- ^ Duffy, p. 449.
- ^ Rambridge, Kate (2013). The Bishop's Palace. A guide to the palace and gardens. The Palace Trust. p. 10.
- ^ "Colleges: The cathedral of Wells." A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1911. 162-169. British History Online website Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ Peter Sherlock, Monuments, Reputation and Clerical Marriage in Reformation England: Bishop Barlow's Daughters, Gender & History, Volume 16 Issue 1, Pages 57 – 82; Published Online: 12 May 2004.
- ^ "A brief discourse of the Troubles begun at Frankfort"
- ^ "Lambeth Palace Library :MS 2523 f.1"
- ^ "A Narrative of the Pursuit of English Refugees in Germany"
- ^ "Christina Garrett : The Marian Exiles"
- ^ "Selsey". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ A. Koszul, Was Bishop William Barlow Friar Jerome Barlow? (1928).
- ^ Listed in the DNB article as: 1. 'The Treatyse of the Burial of the Masse.' 2. ' A Dialogue between the Gentyllman and the Husbandman.' 3. 'The Clymynge up of Fryers and Religious Persones.' 4. 'A Description of Godes Words compared to the Lyght.' 5. 'A Convicyous Dialoge against Saynt. Thomas of Canterberye. (unpublished).
- ^ "Jerome Barlowe". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ Peter Marshall, Religious Identities in Henry VIII's England (2006), p. 39.
- ^ Rainer Pineas, George Joy's Controversy with Thomas More, Moreana No. 38 (June 1973), p. 31; PDF, p. 3.
- ^ Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ "William Barlow, Mathematician". www.barlowgenealogy.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- ^ Document 21M58/T123 at Hampshire Record Office, Winchester
- ^ Peter Sherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England (2008), p. 121.
- ^ "Southern Life – Latest News Around the World". Retrieved 2 April 2016.
References
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. (October 2014) |
- Retha M. Warnicke(1991) The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIII
- Eamon Duffy (1992), The Stripping of the Altars
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Barlow, William (d.1568)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
Further reading
- John Robert Lunn (1897), Bishop Barlowe's Dialogue
- Arthur Stapylton Barnes (1922), Bishop Barlow and Anglican Orders: A Study of the Original Documents
- Andrew M. McLean, "Detestynge Thabomynacyon" : William Barlow, Thomas More and the Anglican Episcopacy, Moreana, XLIX, 1976, 67–77
- Andrew M. McLean (editor) (1981), The work of William Barlowe: including Bishop Barlowe's "Dialogue on the Lutheran factions"