List of papal legates to England

This is a list of papal legates sent by the Holy See to England. The legature was suppressed under Henry VIII in 1536, and restored shortly under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1553 to 1558) and King James II of England (from 1686 to 1688).

Legates, 1066–1558 1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester 1095 - Walter of AlbanoBarlow Feudal Kingdom of England p. 159 1101- Guy, Archbishop of Vienna (Later Pope Callixtus II)Eadmer. Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964. 131 1115–1120? - Anselm of St Saba‘Papal legates to medieval Britain and Ireland in the Oxford DNB’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. accessed 4 July 2016 1125 - John of CremaBartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 555 1126–1130 - William de CorbeilKeats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149 1132–1136 - William of Corbeil 1138–1139 - Alberic of Ostia 1139–1143 - Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester 1149-1159 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury 1166- ? - Thomas Becket, Archbishop of CanterburyThe Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Letter 71"Ex injuncto nobis" 2 May 1166, Translated by Anne Duggan, Clarendon Press, 2000. 1190 - William Longchamp 1213 - Niccolò de Romanis, Bishop of Tusculum 1213–1216 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich (as legatus missus/nuncio) 1216–1218 - Guala Bicchieri 1218–1221 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich 1237/1240 - Otto of Tonengo 1265–1268 - Ottobuono Fieschi, later Pope Adrian V ... 1518–1530 - Thomas Wolsey 1536–1553 : no relations 1553–1557 - Reginald Pole 1557–1558 - William Petow 1570–1686 : no relations 1686–1688 : Ferdinando d'Adda 1688–1914 : no relations

See also Apostolic Nunciature to Great Britain

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