Edmund Bonner
1500–1569
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- Catholic priest
Edmund Bonner (also Boner; c.
Incarceration history
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Biography
Edmund Bonner (also Boner; c. 1500 – 5 September 1569) was Bishop of London from 1539 to 1549 and again from 1553 to 1559. Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he was antagonised by the Protestant reforms introduced by the Duke of Somerset and reconciled himself to Catholicism. He became notorious as "Bloody Bonner" for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England, and ended his life as a prisoner under Queen Elizabeth I.