Christopher Plummer (

fl. ''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...

1490s – 1530s) was a

Canon of Windsor The Dean and Canons of Windsor are the ecclesiastical body of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle. Foundation The college of canons was established in 1348 by Letters Patent of King Edward III. It was formally constituted on the feast of ...

from 1513 - 1535. He was

attainted In English criminal law, attainder or attinctura was the metaphorical "stain" or "corruption of blood" which arose from being condemned for a serious capital crime (felony or treason). It entailed losing not only one's life, property and heredit ...

and deprived in 1535. He was of the same family as the writer

William Plomer William Charles Franklyn Plomer (10 December 1903 – 20 September 1973) was a South African and British novelist, poet and literary editor. He also wrote a series of librettos for Benjamin Britten. He wrote some of his poetry under the pse ...

.Double Lives, William Plomer, Noonday Press, 1956, p. 14

Career

He was appointed: *Prebendary of Auckland in Durham 1493 *Prebendary of Bole in York Minster 1507 *Prebendary of Cadington Major in St Paul’s 1515 *Prebendary of Welton Beckhall in Lincoln 1533 - 1534 *Prebendary of Somerley in Chichester 1516 - 1534 He was appointed to the fourth stall in

St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England is a castle chapel built in the late-medieval Perpendicular Gothic style. It is both a Royal Peculiar (a church under the direct jurisdiction of the monarch) and the Chapel of the Order of the G ...

in 1513, and held the stall until he was deprived of it in 1535. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1536 when he was granted a pardon ''of all treasons etc., whereof he is guilty or to which he is accessory against the

King King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the ...

and Queen Anne according to Statute 26 Hen. VIII.''

Notes

Canons of Windsor Prisoners in the Tower of London 15th-century English people People of the Tudor period 16th-century English people 16th-century English clergy {{ChurchofEngland-clergy-stub