| LC control no. | n 85086623 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575 |
| Variant(s) | Parker, Matthaeus, 1504-1575 Matthew, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 1504-1575 Parker, Archbishop (Matthew), 1504-1575 Parker, Matthew, Abp. of Canterbury, 1504-1575 Parker, Matth. (Matthaeus), 1504-1575 Parcker, Matth. (Matthaeus), 1504-1575 |
| See also | Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1559-1575 : Parker) Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603 Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547 Chief executive of: Church of England. Province of Canterbury Officer of: Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) Graduate of: Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge) |
| Associated country | England England and Wales |
| Associated place | Cambridge (England) Stoke by Clare (Suffolk) |
| Located | London (England) Lambeth (London, England) |
| Birth date | 1504-08-06 |
| Death date | 1575-05-17 |
| Place of birth | Norwich (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) Lambeth (London, England) Lambeth Palace (London, England) |
| Field of activity | Church polity Church management Church history Reformation Theology Book collecting Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting Learning and scholarship |
| Affiliation | Church of England. Province of Canterbury Parker Library (Corpus Christi College) |
| Profession or occupation | Priests Bishops Domestic chaplains--Church of England Church of England--Clergy Catholic Church--Clergy Theologians Book collectors Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting Benefactors University of Cambridge--Benefactors |
| Special note | Data partly provided by the ESTC/BL |
| Found in | Browne, T. Concio ad clerum habita ... 1688: t.p. (Matth. Parker) InU/Wing STC files (usage: Matthaeus Parker; Father Matthew, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; Archbishop Parker) DNB (Parker, Matthew, 1504-1575; Archbishop of Canterbury) LC data base, 8/14/85 (hdg.: Parker, Matthew, Abp. of Canterbury, 1504-1575) Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Archbishop (1559-1575 : Parker). Articles to be enquired of within the dioces of Winchester, in the Metropoliticall visitation of the most reuerend father in Christ, Matthew by the providence of God, Archbyshop of Canterbury, Primate of all England, and Metropolitan, 1575? Parker, Matthew. De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae, et nominatim de priuilegiis Ecclesiae Cantuariensis, atque de archiepiscopis eiusdem LXX historia, 1605: page 39 (In provincia Cant.: Matth. Parcker; Th. D.; academia: Cantabr.; diocaesis: Cantuar.; ordo.: presb. secul.; patria: Noruicen; aetis: 51; consecratio & confirmatio: 1559.Decembr.17) ACAD, A Cambridge alumni database, 2 January 2019 (Matthew Parker; son of William, of Norwich, born 6 Aug. 1504; admitted at Corpus Christi, 1521; B.A. 1523/4, M.A. 1528, B.D. 1535, D.D. 1538; fellow, 1527; Master of Corpus Christi 1544-1553; vice-chancellor 1545, 1548; ordained priest 15 June 1527; chaplain to Queen Anne Boleyn, 1535; Dean of Stoke-by-Clare (Suffolk), 1535-1547; prebendary of Ely (Cambridgeshire), 1541-1554; rector of: Ashen, Essex (1543-1544), Burlingham St Andrew's, Norfolk (1544), Landbeach, Cambridgeshire (1545-1553); prebendary and dean of Lincoln (Lincolnshire), 1552; lived in retirement under Queen Mary; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1559-1575; occupied in publishing the Bishops' Bible, 1563-1568; author, ecclesiastical; died 17 May, 1575; buried in his own chapel at Lambeth (London); great benefactor to the University and to Corpus Christi, also to Caius and to Trinity Hall; unique entry identifier: PRKR521M) Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 2 January 2019 (Parker, Matthew (1504-1575), archbishop of Canterbury and patron of scholarship; born Norwich 6 August 1504; graduated BA from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1525; DTh in July 1538; in 1535, appointed one of the chaplains of Queen Anne Boleyn, who presented him to the deanery of the Suffolk college of Stoke by Clare and commended Princess Elizabeth to his spiritual care; one of King Henry VIII's chaplains, 1537 until probably 1547; administrative and financial reforms at Stoke by Clare and Cambridge, as master of Corpus and vice-chancellor; accumulated ecclesiastical preferments through 1540s; is not known whether Parker resided at any of his benefices; from 1549, came under the influence of Strasbourg reformer Martin Bucer; preached his English funeral sermon, later published; 1552, presented by the crown to deanery of Lincoln and prebend of Corringham in Lincoln Cathedral; suffered under Queen Mary: December 1553, resigned the mastership of Corpus, in 1554, deprived of prebend of Ely, deanery of Lincoln; literary endeavours in Latin and English; Archbishop of Canterbury: confirmed to the primacy on 9 December 1559 and consecrated on the 17th; is usually hailed as one of the chief architects of the Elizabethan religious settlement; controversies, campaigns against nonconformity; doubtless supported John Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae, the first systematic defence of Church of England, and probably instrumental in organizing its English translation (1564); general editor of second Book of Homilies in 1563-1564; gave particular attention to the so-called Bishops' Bible, an English translation that has been called his brainchild; undertook the lion's share of the work, probably late 1565 to 1568; before northern rising of 1569, sought to advance the cause of religious reform; thereafter his ambitions were limited to protection of an imperfect status quo against attacks from resurgent Catholicism and radical protestantism alike; in declining years, increasingly retreated into antiquarian studies, in part motivated by need to find evidence for existence of protestantism in remote British past; collector of printed books and manuscripts, including patristic and humanistic texts; bequeathed over 800 volumes to Corpus; more than 500 manuscripts owned by Parker have been identified; filled his household with scholars and skilled artisans who worked on his behalf; patronized John Foxe and John Stow; supported publication of books including editions of Anglo-Saxon and medieval chroniclers; oversaw the production of De antiquitate Britannicae ecclesiae (1572, ESTC 19202), tracing the fortunes of the church in Britain from the time of Joseph of Arimathea, over 500 years before the arrival of St. Augustine; diocesan administration, including appointment of new bishops, regular and extraordinary visitations, educational provisions; died at Lambeth Palace on 17 May 1575 and was ceremonially buried on 6 June) Wikipedia, 2 January 2019 (Matthew Parker (6 August 1504-17 May 1575); Archbishop of Canterbury from 1559 until his death in 1575; an influential theologian and arguably the co-founder (with Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker) of a distinctive tradition of Anglican theological thought; one of the primary architects of the Thirty-nine Articles, the defining statements of Anglican doctrine; important collection of early English manuscripts; his historical research was exemplified in his De antiquitate Britannicæ ecclesiae (1572) and his editions of Asser, Matthew Paris (1571), Thomas Walsingham, and the compiler known as Matthew of Westminster (1571); at Lambeth, is said to have had an establishment of printers, engravers, and illuminators; the Bishops' Bible was undertaken at his request, prepared under his supervision, and published at his expense in 1572; also had the principal share in drawing up Book of Common Prayer and his version of the psalter; founded an early version of Society of Antiquaries of London, was its first president; Parker Library at Corpus Christi bears his name and houses most of his collection, with some volumes in Cambridge University Library; the Parker Library on the Web project has made digital images of all of these manuscripts available online) |
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