This is a list of

papal legate 300px, A woodcut showing Henry II of England greeting the pope's legate. A papal legate or apostolic legate (from the ancient Roman title ''legatus'') is a personal representative of the pope to foreign nations, or to some part of the Catholic ...

s sent by the Holy See to England. The legature was suppressed under

Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...

, and restored under his daughter Mary I (reigned from 1553 to 1558).

Legates, 1066–1558

*1070 - Hubert, signatory of the Accord of Winchester *1095 - Walter of AlbanoBarlow ''Feudal Kingdom of England'' p. 159 *1101- Guy, Archbishop of Vienna (Later

Pope Callixtus II Pope Callixtus II or Callistus II ( – 13 December 1124), born Guy of Burgundy, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1 February 1119 to his death in 1124. His pontificate was shaped by the Investiture Controversy, ...

) *1115–1120? - Anselm of St Saba‘Papal legates to medieval Britain and Ireland in the Oxford DNB’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press
accessed 4 July 2016
/ref> *1125 - John of CremaBartlett ''England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings'' p. 555 *1126–1130 - William de CorbeilKeats-Rohan ''Domesday Descendants'' p. 149 *1132–1136 - William of Corbeil *1138–1139 -

Alberic of Ostia Alberic of Ostia (1080–1148) was a Benedictine monk, and Cardinal Bishop of Ostia from 1138 to 1148. He was born at Beauvais in France. He entered the monastery of Cluny and became its sub-prior and, later, prior of Saint-Martin-des-Champs, b ...

*1139–1143 -

Henry of Blois Henry of Blois ( c. 1096 8 August 1171), often known as Henry of Winchester, was Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey from 1126, and Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to his death. He was a younger son of Stephen Henry, Count of Blois by Adela of Normandy, da ...

Bishop of Winchester The Bishop of Winchester is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Winchester in the Church of England. The bishop's seat (''cathedra'') is at Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire. The Bishop of Winchester has always held ''ex officio'' (except dur ...

*1149-1159 - Theobald of Bec,

Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...

*1190 - William Longchamp *1213 - Niccolò de Romanis,

Bishop of Tusculum The Diocese of Frascati (Lat.: ''Tusculana'') is a suburbicarian see of the Diocese of Rome, Holy Roman Church and a diocese of the Catholic Church in Italy, based at Frascati, near Rome. The bishop of Frascati is a Cardinal Bishop; from the Lati ...

*1213–1216 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich (as ''legatus missus''/''nuncio'') *1216–1218 - Guala Bicchieri *1218–1221 - Pandulf Verraccio, later Bishop of Norwich *1237/1240 - Otto of Tonengo *1265–1268 - Ottobuono Fieschi, later Pope Adrian V *1518–1530 - Thomas Wolsey *1536–1557 - Reginald Pole *1557–1558 - William Petow

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