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Biography of Thomas Cranmer
Name: Thomas Cranmer
Birth Date: July 2, 1489
Death Date: March 21, 1556
Place of Birth: Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: archbishop
Thomas Cranmer
The English ecclesiastic Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) was the first Protestant archbishop of Canterbury.Thomas Cranmer was born in Aslacton, Nottinghamshire, on July 2, 1489, the son of a village squire. He went to Cambridge University at the age of 14; though of indifferent scholarship, he received a bachelor's degree in 1511 and a master's degree in 1514. He also received a fellowship at Jesus College and seemed well on the way to an ecclesiastical career when, at 25, he abandoned his fellowship and married Black Joan of the Dolphin Inn at Cambridge. Very little is known of this girl, who died, as did his child by her, within a year of their marriage. Cranmer then returned to his former way of life. His fellowship was restored, and by 1520 he had been ordained a priest and become a university preacher. Five years later he received the degree of doctor of divinity.A chance meeting in August 1529 with two …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…the famous Thirty-nine Articles established in Queen Elizabeth's reign.With the accession of Queen Mary, there remained for Cranmer, who had so injured her and her mother and had been so prominent in promoting the destruction of the Catholic Church, only imprisonment and death for heresy. Despite his recantations of his heretical views he vigorously affirmed his Protestantism as he was burned at the stake on March 21, 1556. Further Reading A thorough biography is Jasper Ridley, Thomas Cranmer (1962). See also Francis E. Hutchinson, Cranmer and the English Reformation (1951), and Theodore Maynard, The Life of Thomas Cranmer (1956). For background material A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation (1964; rev. ed. 1967), and J. J. Scarisbrick, Henry VIII (1968), are useful.Gilpin, William, The life of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, London: Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1784. MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer: a life, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. Thomas Cranmer: churchman and scholar, New York: Boydell Press, 1993.
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