Sir Francis Englefield

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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Born	c.1520
Died	1596

Saint Dunstan of Canterbury

English archbishop

Wulfstan

English archbishop

Roger of Pont l’Évêque

English archbishop

John Leslie

Scottish bishop

Lanfranc

archbishop of Canterbury

Robert of Jumièges

archbishop of Canterbury and bishop of London

Hugh Le Despenser

English noble, the younger [died 1326]

Thomas Cranmer

archbishop of Canterbury

William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley

English statesman

St. Thomas Becket

archbishop of Canterbury

James II

king of England, Scotland, and Ireland

Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon

English statesman

William Laud

archbishop of Canterbury

Thomas Cromwell

English statesman

Thomas Wentworth, 1st earl of Strafford

English noble

Mary I

queen of England

Thomas, Cardinal Wolsey

English cardinal and statesman

Saint Wilfrid

English saint

Reginald Pole

archbishop of Canterbury

Stephen Gardiner

English bishop and statesman

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