Richard Bancroft

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Richard Bancroft

Richard Bancroft (* 1544 in Farnworth , Lancashire , † November 2, 1610 in London ) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1604 to 1610 .

Life

Bancroft studied first at Christ's College , Cambridge , and then at Jesus College . He completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1567 and his Master of Arts in 1570 . Around this time he was ordained a priest and appointed chaplain to Richard Cox , Bishop of Ely , and in 1575 proposed as rector of "Teversham" in Cambridgeshire . The following year he was one of the preachers at the university.

In 1580 he graduated with a "Bachelor of Divinity" (BD) and five years later with a "Doctor of Divinity" (DD). In 1584 he was rector of St Andrew's Church in Holborn , in 1585 Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral in London and from 1586 was a member of the ecclesiastical commission. On February 9, 1589, he held a sermon in Paul's Cross with a passionate attack on the Puritans , on their language and activities, he caricatured their motives and denounced their rights of free expression ( right of private judgment ). He set forth the “divine right of the bishops” in such strong language that one of Queen Elizabeth I's advisers saw this as an attack on the primacy of the crown.

In the following years he became benefactor of St. Paul's, from 1587 canon of Westminster and chaplain of "Lord Chancellor Hatton" and Archbishop Whitgift . In June 1597 he was ordained Bishop of London . Since that time, particularly because of Archbishop John Whitgift's age and incapacity , he was practically endowed with the power of ecclesiastical primacy and supreme responsibility in ecclesiastical affairs. It was around this time that the Marprelate controversy fell . In 1600 he was sent to Emden with others as an ambassador to resolve certain disputes between the English and the Danes. This mission ended in failure.

He was present at the death of Queen Elizabeth I. After the death of Archbishop Whitgift, he was appointed as his successor as Archbishop of Canterbury in March 1604 and in 1608 was also appointed Chancellor of Oxford University. He died on November 2, 1610 in the London residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace .

In 2010 the Lambeth Palace hosted an exhibition entitled Treasures of Lambeth Palace Library , which also featured the private collection that Bancroft had left with the library.

literature

  • Alan Foster: A History of Farnworth Church, its Parish and Village . 1981.
  • Stuart B. Babbage: Puritanism and Richard Bancroft . Allenson-Breckinridge Books, 1962
  • Bancroft, Richard . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 309 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

Commons : Richard Bancroft  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Powicke & Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Second Edition, London, 1961, p. 212
  2. ↑ Rare books are only rare when they are rare . In: FAZ , June 25, 2010, p. 36
predecessor Office successor
Richard Fletcher Bishop of London
1597–1604 		Richard Vaugham
John Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury
1604–1610 		George Abbot
personal data
SURNAME Bancroft, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English clergyman, Archbishop of Canterbury
DATE OF BIRTH 1544
PLACE OF BIRTH Farnworth , Lancashire
DATE OF DEATH November 2, 1610
Place of death London