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Born April 23, 1559?
Died December 9, 1603 • Winchester • England
Role In Bye Plot
Murder of St. Thomas Becket
St. Thomas Becket
archbishop of Canterbury
Godfrey Kneller: painting of James II
James II
king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Mary I
Mary I
queen of England
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey
English cardinal and statesman
Saint Wilfrid
English saint
Reginald Pole, detail of a portrait attributed to Fra Sebastiano del Piombo; in a private collection
Reginald Pole
archbishop of Canterbury
Stephen Gardiner
English bishop and statesman
Stephen Langton
archbishop of Canterbury
Saint John Fisher
English priest
Hubert Walter
archbishop of Canterbury
George Jeffreys, detail of an oil painting attributed to H. Claret; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
English judge
George Calvert, 1st Baron of Baltimore, engraving
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
British statesman
Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
English archbishop
St. Edmund Campion
St. Edmund Campion
English saint
Walter Reynolds
archbishop of Canterbury
John Morton
archbishop of Canterbury
William Warham, engraving from Edmund Lodge's Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain (1814–34).
William Warham
archbishop of Canterbury
Wulfstan
English archbishop
St. Thomas de Cantelupe, cast of his seal; in the collection of the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral, England
Saint Thomas de Cantelupe
English saint
Arundel, Thomas
Thomas Arundel
archbishop of Canterbury