Christopher Bainbridge

Christopher Bainbridge
His Eminence 
Christopher Bainbridge,
 
D.Cn., C.L.
Cardinal Archbishop of York
Province York
Diocese York
Enthroned 1508 (appointed)
Reign ended 1514
Predecessor Thomas Savage
Successor Thomas Wolsey
Orders
Consecration 12 December 1507 (Bishop)
Created Cardinal 10 March 1511
Rank Cardinal priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro (1511)
Cardinal priest of Santa Prassede (1511–1514)
Personal details
Born circa 1562/64
Hilton, near Appleby, Westmorland, England
Died 14 July 1514 (aged c. 48/50)
Buried Chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury at the English hospice, Rome
Nationality English
Denomination Roman Catholic Church

Christopher Bainbridge (1462/64 – 1514) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of York from 1508 until his death.[1]

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Early life

The cardinal came from a Westmorland family with roots in Bainbridge, North Yorkshire and was a maternal nephew of Thomas Langton, Bishop of Winchester, which may account for his charmed early life. He was granted an indult in 1479 which allowed him to hold church benefices while still unordained and under the age of 16, and another in 1482 that allowed him to hold more than one benefice concurrently. He was said to have been fifty years old at his death and must therefore have been born about 1464.[1]

He was described as a magister, or scientist, by 1486; at Bologna he was admitted D.C.L. in 1492; he was in Rome between 1492–1494. Appointed Provost of Queen's College, Oxford in 1496, and Master of the Rolls in 1504, he was incorporated at Lincoln's Inn on 20 January 1505. By 1497, he had become chaplain to Henry VII; in 1503 dean of York; in 1505 he was Dean of St. George's Chapel, Windsor. He was appointed Bishop of Durham on 27 August 1507.[1]

Archbishop of York

Bainbridge was translated to York on 22 September 1508, a sign of the favour he enjoyed at court. On 24 September 1509, King Henry VIII (whose coronation he had attended) appointed Bainbridge to be his ambassador to Pope Julius II. Just at this time Julius had taken alarm at the invasion of Italy by Louis XII of France, and the support of England was therefore of great importance.[1]

Julius left Rome to relieve Bologna, and was nearly taken prisoner in the war. A group of pro-French cardinals summoned a council in opposition to him at Pisa, which Julius opposed by calling another council at Rome[2], in the course of which he created (in March 1511) several new Cardinals, of which Bainbridge was one, with the title of "Cardinal of St. Praxed's".[1]

Bainbridge was immediately sent with an army to lay siege to Ferrara, but the creation of the Holy League relieved the papacy of some pressure by involving Spain against the French forces. Pope Julius II was succeeded on his death by Pope Leo X, who was initially willing to grant the title of Christianissimus Rex (Most Christian King) to Henry, after Francis had automatically forfeited the title by waging war on the Pope. However, Henry's making peace with France in 1514 probably ended these hopes.[1]

Bainbridge died on 14 July 1514, having been poisoned by one of his own chaplains, Rinaldo de Modena. Rinaldo was imprisoned and confessed to the crime. He also implicated Silvester de Giglis, then Bishop of Worcester, as the instigator of the plot. De Giglis was the resident English ambassador at Rome, and regarded Bainbridge as a threat to his position: he also had sufficient power and influence to make Rinaldo retract his confession and have him killed in prison.[1]

Richard Pace and John Clerk, the cardinal's executors, were eager to prosecute De Giglis, but he maintained that the priest was a madman whom he had dismissed from his own service some years before in England, and his defence was accepted as sufficient.[1]

Bainbridge was buried in the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury at the English hospice in Rome, which later became the Venerable English College.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Miranda, Salvador. "Christopher Bainbridge". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. http://www.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1511.htm#Bainbridge. Retrieved 26 March 2010. 
  2. ^ Francesco Guicciardini, Storia d'Italia, Lib.10, cap.2
  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885.

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Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Geoffrey Blithe
Dean of York
1503–1505
Succeeded by
James Harrington
Preceded by
Christopher Urswick
Dean of Windsor
1505–1507
Succeeded by
Thomas Hobbes
Preceded by
William Senhouse
Bishop of Durham
1507–1508
Succeeded by
Thomas Ruthall
Preceded by
Thomas Savage
Archbishop of York
1508–1514
Succeeded by
Thomas Wolsey

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