Henry Cotton
Bornc.1545
Died7 May 1615
NationalityEnglish
OccupationBishop
Years active1598-1615
Known forBishop of Salisbury

Henry Cotton (c.1545–7 May 1615) was an English bishop.

Life

He was the son of Sir Richard Cotton of Warblington, Hampshire, and his wife Jane Onley.

He was a godson to Elizabeth I of England, and one of her chaplains.[1] He was rector of Havant in 1567.[2][3]

He was elected Bishop of Salisbury on 28 September 1598. He gained Royal Assent on 24 October, was confirmed on 11 November, and consecrated at Lambeth the next day, and had the temporalities restored to him on 23 December 1598.[4] In his time as bishop, a long-running struggle by the city of Salisbury for its charter was resolved, in 1612.[5]

He died in 1615 and was buried "in his own church"[6] beside his wife, as he had requested in his Will.

Notes

  1. ^ Gleeson White, The cathedral church of Salisbury; a description of its fabric and a brief history of the see of Sarum (1901), p. 110.
  2. ^ "Rectors of St. Faith's Church in Havant, Hampshire". Archived from the original on 1 February 2009. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
  3. ^ The Church of St Faith Havant Archived 2008-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Bishops | Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857: volume 6 (pp. 1-5)
  5. ^ Salisbury - Relations with the bishops, to 1612 | A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 6 (pp. 101-103)
  6. ^ Britton, John (1814). "The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (pp. 48)". Google Books. Retrieved 3 January 2022.
Church of England titles Preceded byJohn Coldwell Bishop of Salisbury 1598–1615 Succeeded byRobert Abbot


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