Dr Richard Gwent (died 1543) was a senior ecclesiastical jurist, pluralist cleric and administrator through the period of the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII. Of south Welsh origins, as a Doctor of both laws in the University of Oxford he rose swiftly to become Dean of the Arches and Archdeacon of London and of Brecon, and later of Huntingdon. He became an important figure in the operations of Thomas Cromwell, was a witness to Thomas Cranmer's private protestation on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, and was Cranmer's Commissary and legal draftsman. He was an advocate on behalf of Katherine of Aragon in the proceedings against her, and helped to deliver the decree of annulment against Anne of Cleves.[1]
A royal chaplain, he helped to arrange a peace treaty with Scotland, and steered the revision of the Canon Law and other textual reforms. An instrument of policy rather than a prime mover, he helped to implement major reforms including the King's Supremacy, took the surrender of some larger monasteries in the western English borders, and was Prolocutor of the lower house in three important Ecclesiastical Convocations of the period. He was also involved in the identification and interrogation of heretics. His long association with Cranmer brought him closely into the process of Reform, but in his duty of service to various masters his personal religious sympathies are not fully apparent.[2]
^G. Williams, 'Gwent, Richard (d. 1543), clergyman and canon lawyer', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), replacing G. Goodwin, 'Gwent, Richard (d. 1543), archdeacon of London', Dictionary of National Biography (1885–1900), Vol. 23.
^G. Williams, "Two neglected London-Welsh clerics: Richard Whitford and Richard Gwent", Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1961), pp. 23–43, at pp. 33–43 (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru); and in Welsh Reformation Essays (University of Wales Press, Cardiff 1967).
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