George Cromer
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George Cromer (died 1543) was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland in the reign of Henry VIII of England, from 1521/2.[1]
He was English by birth, a descendant of the Cromer (aka Crowemer) family of Tunstall, Kent. Caught up in Henry's Reformation of the Church of England, he was deprived of his see of Armagh.[2] He continued in place as Archbishop of Armagh, despite suspicions from Henry about his true beliefs and also despite being suspended by the Pope on a charge of heresy.[3][4]
He was Lord Chancellor of Ireland 1532-4, as a placeman of Garrett, 9th Earl of Kildare, whose family dominated Irish politics almost entirely from the 1470s to the late 1530s.[5][6]
References
- Chapter in A.J. Hughes, William Nolan (eds.) (2001), Armagh: Interdisciplinary essays on the History of an Irish County
Notes
- ↑ The Succession of the Bishops of Armagh [ Succession list ] : Free Genealogy Pages from Ulster Ancestry
- ↑ George Cromer
- ↑ Concise Dictionary of National Biography
- ↑ [1], dating this at 1539.
- ↑ Garrett, Ninth Earl of Kildare (1513–1534)
- ↑ [2], [3]. Archived September 26, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
