Nicholas Shaxton

Nicholas Shaxton (around 1485 ; † 1556 ) was an English theologian and Bishop of Salisbury .

Life

Shaxton was educated at Cambridge and served on the university committee that supported the divorce of Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon (1530). He later became a favorite of Thomas Cromwell and supported the act of supremacy . He then became Bishop of Salisbury (1535). A determined Protestant , he gave up his bishopric in 1539 because of his opposition to the Six Articles. In 1546 he and others were accused of heresy and imprisoned. To save himself from the pyre, he recanted and preached at the burning of some of his companions. Despite the accession to the throne Edward VI. if he did not return to his earlier views, he was reinstated in an ecclesiastical office under Maria I Tudor and took part in the oppression of the Protestants.

literature

• Shaxton, Nicholas . In: John Venn , John Archibald Venn (eds.): Alumni Cantabrigienses . A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900. Part 1: From the earliest times to 1751 , volume 4 : Hall – Zuingius . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1927, pp. 54 ( venn.lib.cam.ac.uk Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Powicke, Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. 2nd Edition. London 1961, p. 252.

predecessor	Office	successor
Lorenzo Campeggi	Bishop of Salisbury 1535–1539	John Salcot