Cuthbert Tunstall
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Cuthbert Tunstall was an English humanist, bishop, diplomat, administrator and royal adviser. He served as Bishop of Durham during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I. He has
Cuthbert Tunstall
Arms of Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, Durham Castle. See of Durham impaling Tunstall (Sable, three combs argent), "which arose from the first of the name and family in England, being barber to William the Conqueror"
Bishop Tunstall burning a translation of the Bible in London, 1870 illustration
William Tyndale
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William Tyndale was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He translated much of the Bible into En
Cuthbert Tunstall
…1525, he negotiated with the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V after the Battle of Pavia, and he helped to arrange the Peace of Cambrai in 1529. Tunstall met William Tyndale in 1523 seeking patronage to translate the Bible (into contemporaneous Early Modern English) which Tunstall declined, saying he already funded several…
16th-century engraving of Tyndale
Portrait of William Tyndale (1836)
Cuthbert Tunstall (1474–1559), Bishop of Durham
The beginning of the Gospel of John, from Tyndale's 1525 translation of the New Testament.