- John Kite
John Kite (died 1537) was successively Archbishop of Armagh, 1513–1521, and
Bishop of Carlisle , 1521–1537.Educated at
Eton College and then atKing's College, Cambridge where he was graduated Bachelor ofCanon Law , he was appointed aprebendary ofExeter Cathedral and Sub-Dean of the King's Chapel, Westminster in 1510. From 1510-1518 he wasprebendary of Stratton in thediocese of Salisbury .In 1518, as
archbishop , he accompaniedJohn Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners on an embassy to Charles I ofSpain and was present at theField of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. In 1522 he was living atRose Castle , Cumberland when he was visited by DrWilliam Burbank ,Archdeacon ofCarlisle , of whom he wrote to Cardinal Wolsey. His alliance with Wolsey may explain his quick promotion. He took theOath of Supremacy in 1534.Bibliography
*Joyce M. Horn, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: Volume 3 Salisbury Diocese, (London: Institute of Historical Research, 1962) citing Register of
Edmund Audley , Bishop of Salisbury
*James Wilson, 'The Seal of William Burbank', Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Antiquarian Society, Vol. XV
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