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, and restored under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1663 to 1558).

Legates, 1066 - 1558

• 1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester
• 1095 - Walter of Albano[1]
• 1101- Guy, Archbishop of Vienna (Later Pope Callixtus II)[2]
• 1115-1120? - Anselm of St Saba[3]
• 1125 - John of Crema[4]
• 1126-1130 - William de Corbeil[5]
• 1132-1136 - William of Corbeil[5]
• 1138-1139 - Alberic of Ostia
• 1139-1143 - Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester
• 1149-1159 - Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 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
• 1536-1557 - Reginald Pole
• 1557-1558 - William Petow

Notes

1. Barlow Feudal Kingdom of England p. 159
2. Eadmer. Eadmer’s History of Recent Events in England = Historia Novorum in Anglia. Translated by Geoffrey Bosanquet. London: Cresset Press, 1964. 131
3. ‘Papal legates to medieval Britain and Ireland in the Oxford DNB’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. accessed 4 July 2016
4. Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 555
5. Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 149

References

• Barlow, Frank (1988). The Feudal Kingdom of England 1042-1216 (Fourth ed.). New York: Longman. ISBN 0-582-49504-0.
• Bartlett, Robert C. (2000). England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings: 1075-1225. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-822741-8.
• Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. (1999). Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Ipswich, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-863-3.