Robert King (bishop)
Robert King | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Oxford | |
 | |
| Church | Church of England/Roman Catholic |
| Installed | 1546 |
| Term ended | 1558 |
| Predecessor | Diocese established |
| Successor | Thomas Goldwell |
| Personal details | |
| Died | c. 1558 |
Robert King(died 1558) was an English churchman who became the firstBishop of Oxford.
Biography
[edit]Robert King was aCistercianmonk, ofThame Park Abbey,and the last Abbot there, a position he obtained perhaps[1]through the influence of theBishop of Lincoln,John Longland,as whoseprebendaryandsuffragan bishophe had acted from 1535:[2]he was appointed suffragan bishop in Lincoln on 7 January 1527,[3]and ordained and consecrated to thetitularSee of Rheon, Greece (Reonesis) on 13 May.[4]This was a move from the position of abbot atBruerne Abbey.[5]Previously he had been vicar atCharlbury.[6]
King became abbot atOseney Abbeyin 1537. Both Thame Park and Oseney were dissolved in 1539, as part of theDissolution of the MonasteriesunderHenry VIII.In 1541 King was made Bishop of Thame and Oseney. The next year his diocese was changed, into theDiocese of Oxford.In further changes the cathedral in Oxford was the previousSt Frideswide's Priory,[7]and became instead part ofChrist Church, Oxford.King is commemorated there by a window made byBernard van Linge.[8]
The buildings of the oldGloucester College, Oxford,which had become in 1542 the bishop's palace,[9]were underEdward VItaken back by the Crown. King lived in what is now called the Old Palace (rebuilt in the seventeenth century), and Littlemore Hall.
UnderMary,he returned toCatholicism.He was a judge at the trial ofCranmer.[10]
References
[edit]- ^Others sayJohn Williams (1500-1559),later,John Williams, 1st Baron Williams of Thame,a family connection (Will, His; March, dated 8th."RBH Biography: John Williams, Baron Williams of Thame (1500-1559)".Royal County of Berkshire History Home Page.Retrieved4 October2018.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)). - ^Concise Dictionary of National Biography.
- ^"King, Robert".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15592.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^Knowles, David & David M. Smith (ed.)The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540p. 339
- ^David Knowles,The Religious Orders in England,vol. III p.72.
- ^Commemorated on a plaque in the parish church there
- ^Taken over byCardinal Wolseyfor his projected Cardinal College 1522, taken back by Henry VIII 1529.
- ^View it online:"Image Details".ViewFinder.Retrieved4 October2018..Some sayAbraham van Linge.The window was commissioned by collateral descendants of Robert King's brother William ("support.gale".AML.Retrieved4 October2018.); one of them beingHenry King(1592-1669),bishop of Chichesterand poet.
- ^Chisholm, Hugh,ed. (1911)..Encyclopædia Britannica.Vol. 20 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 412.—mentions the palace and his monument;King, Richard John."Christ Church, Oxford • King's Handbook to the Cathedrals of England".Sir Thomas Browne.Retrieved4 October2018.:for an illustration.
- ^"Foundation and Mission-The Old Palace".Archived fromthe originalon 4 February 2007.Retrieved23 January2007.
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