Robert Holgate was Bishop of Llandaff

Bishop of Llandaff

The Bishop of Llandaff is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.-Area of authority:The diocese covers most of the County of Glamorgan. The Bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul , in the village of Llandaff, just north-west of the City of...

 and then Archbishop of York

Archbishop of York

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 (from 1545 to 1554). He recognised Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

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 as leader of the Church of England

Church of England

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Holgate, chaplain to Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex, , was an English statesman who served as chief minister of King Henry VIII of England from 1532 to 1540....

, became master of the Gilbertine Order

Gilbertine Order

The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest...

 in 1536, and exerted his influence to prevent the surrender of the Gilbertine houses under the Act for the Suppression of the Smaller Monasteries in 1536 as only four out of twenty-six houses had revenues over £200 a year. In 1538, Holgate surrendered Sempringham Priory

Sempringham Priory

Sempringham Priory was a priory in Lincolnshire, England, located in the medieval hamlet of Sempringham, to the northwest of Pointon. Today, all that remains of the priory is a marking on the ground where the walls stood and a square, which are identifiable only in aerial photos of the vicinity...

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External links

• Archbishop Holgate's School
  Archbishop Holgate's School
  Archbishop Holgate's School is a voluntary aided Church of England, coeducational secondary school in York, England.-Admissions:The school has two main specialist statuses - Science College and Leading Edge. The current headmaster is Andrew Daly...
  
  
• H.L. Parish, ‘Holgate, Robert (1481/2–1555)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 5 June 2007