Thomas Cranmer (aft. 1547 - 1598)

Born after 1547 in England

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Died 1598 before age 51 in Holborn, Middlesex, England

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Biography

Thomas Cranmer was the only son of Archbishop Thomas Cranmer and his wife Margarete, who married in Nuremberg in 1532. As Cranmer was then in Holy Orders, the marriage was then illegal in England. After 1547, on the accession of the protestant King Edward VI, Margarete Cranmer came to live permanently in England, about which time their son Thomas would have been born.

Archbishop Cranmer expected for his son to inherit his lands in Yorkshire, around the Priory of Kirkstall, but he was convicted of treason and attainted when Queen Mary I came to the throne. His young son Thomas was taken for safety to the continent, probably by his uncle Edmund Cranmer, and on his return to England, he had difficulty in claiming his inheritance, engaged in profligate behavior, and died in poverty in 1598, having sold off all his property.

Some time after 1576, he married Catherine, youngest daughter of Ralph Rogers, Esq., of Kent, and widow of Hugh Vaughn. There were no children of this marriage, and Thomas Cranmer left no issue.

Sources

• Waters, Robert E C. Genealogical memoirs of the kindred families of Thomas Cranmer . . . London: Robson and Sons, 1877.

• MacCullough, Diarmaid. Thomas Cranmer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016.

• See the Stationers Company (Wills).[1]^[1] (link broken)

1. ↑ Stationers Company (Wills).