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George Cotes

George Cotes

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George Cotes (or Cotys, Coates) (died 1556) was an English academic and Catholic Bishop of Chester during the English Reformation.

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Arms: Argent, fretty Azure, on a canton Or a lion rampant Sable.[1]

He had been a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford in 1522,[2] and then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1527.[3] He was Junior Proctor of Oxford University in 1531.[4] It was some years before he was elected Master of Balliol College, in which post he served in the years 1539–1545.[3]

With the accession of Queen Mary, he was chosen to succeed the former Carmelite John Bird, who had been deprived because he was married, as Bishop of Chester.[5] Cotes was consecrated on 1 April 1554 by bishops Stephen Gardiner of Winchester, Edmund Bonner of London, and Cuthbert Tunstall of Durham, and received papal provision on 6 July 1554.[5] However, he held the post for only a short period of time before he died in c. January 1556.[5]

During the Marian Persecutions he had Protestant George Marsh burnt at the stake as a heretic.[6]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  2. [2]
    Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Colericke-Coverley
  3. [3]
    Masters of Balliol. Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts . Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
  4. [4]
    Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Colericke-Coverley
  5. [5]
    Bishops of Chester. British History Online. Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
  6. [6]
    John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Retrieved on 10 July 2016.

References

  • F. Sanders, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries 1894 series 8-V (1894) 48–49.
  • F. Huskisson & E. Marshall, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in Notes and Queries series 8-V (1894) 153.
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