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Born c.1005 • Pavia • Italy
Died May 28, 1089 • Canterbury • England
Durham Cathedral
William Of Saint Carilef
English bishop
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Saint Dunstan of Canterbury
English archbishop
John Leslie, detail of an engraving
John Leslie
Scottish bishop
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Wulfstan
English archbishop
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Ealdred
Anglo-Saxon archbishop
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Roger of Pont l’Évêque
English archbishop
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Robert of Jumièges
archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of London
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Sir Francis Englefield
advisor to Mary I
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David Riccio
Italian royal secretary
St. Gregory the Great
St. Gregory the Great
pope
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Roberto Ridolfi
Italian conspirator
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Hugh Le Despenser
English noble, the younger [died 1326]
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer
archbishop of Canterbury
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
English statesman
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Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon
English statesman
Portrait painting by Hans Holbein the Younger of Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, seated at a desk holding a paper, wearing dark robes and a black cap.
Thomas Cromwell
English statesman
William Laud
William Laud
archbishop of Canterbury
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Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford
English noble
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William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke
English regent
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian monk