For the English politician, see Thomas Ruthall (MP).
Thomas Ruthall
Bishop of Durham
Church
Roman Catholic
Diocese
Diocese of Durham
In office
1509–1523
Predecessor
Christopher Bainbridge
Successor
Thomas Wolsey
Other post(s)
Dean of Bocking (1495–?) Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1503–1504) Dean of Salisbury (1505–1508) Dean of Wimborne (c. 1508–1509) Lord Privy Seal (1516–1523)
Orders
Ordination
1490 (deacon)
Consecration
1509
Personal details
Born
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England
Died
(1523-02-04)4 February 1523 (aged c. 55) Westminster, Middlesex, England
Buried
St John's Chapel, Westminster Abbey
Nationality
English
Denomination
Catholic
Residence
Durham Place (at death)
Alma mater
University of Oxford
Thomas Ruthall (also spelled Ruthal, Rowthel or Rowthall; died 4 February 1523) was an English churchman, administrator and diplomat. He was a leading councillor of Henry VIII of England.[1]
^G. R. Elton, The Tudor Revolution in Government (1953), p. 122.
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bring an army against the Hume family on the Scottish borders. Bishop ThomasRuthall of Durham inspected the castle and began restoration work, which continued...
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during this invasion. By 29 August after a siege of six days, Bishop ThomasRuthall's Norham Castle was taken and partly demolished after the Scottish heavy...
uterine cousins of Sir Andrew Wyndsore of Stanwell, Middlesex (whose father Thomas Wyndsore married their mother's sister Elizabeth Andrews). At Sir John's...
an English cardinal. Of Westmorland origins, he was a nephew of Bishop Thomas Langton of Winchester, represented the continuation of Langton's influence...
killed along with fourteen of the twenty-nine lords of parliament. ThomasRuthall, Bishop of Durham, wrote to Cardinal Wolsey on 20 September saying that...
State – ThomasRuthall 21 December – Henry VII arranges a marriage between his younger daughter, Mary Tudor and Habsburg Archduke Charles. Thomas More leaves...
(Subscription or UK public library membership required.) "Wardle, Walter Thomas". Who's Who & Who Was Who. Vol. 1920–2008 (December 2012 online ed.). A...
William Warham Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe Secretary of State – ThomasRuthall 28 June – planned marriage of Henry Tudor and Catherine of Aragon postponed...
William Warham Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe Secretary of State – ThomasRuthall 18 February – Henry Tudor created Prince of Wales following the death...
William Warham Lord Privy Seal – Richard Foxe Secretary of State – ThomasRuthall 16 January – Philip of Burgundy lands at Melcombe Regis after the fleet...
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