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George Cotes (or Cotys, Coates) (died 1556) was an
''Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts ''. Retrieved on 10 July 2016. He was Junior
''British History Online''. Retrieved on 10 July 2016. Cotes was consecrated on 1 April 1554 by bishopsJohn Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
George Cotes (or Cotys, Coates) (died 1556) was an English
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academic and Catholic Bishop of Chester
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during the English Reformation
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.
He had been a Fellow
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of Balliol College, Oxford
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in 1522, and then became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford
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in 1527.Masters of Balliol''Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts ''. Retrieved on 10 July 2016. He was Junior
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of Oxford University
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in 1531. It was some years before he was elected Master of Balliol College, in which post he served in the years 1539–1545.
With the accession of Queen Mary, he was chosen to succeed the former Carmelite John Bird, who had been deprived because he was married, as Bishop of Chester
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The diocese extends across most of the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, including the Wirral Peninsula and has its see in the ...
.Bishops of Chester''British History Online''. Retrieved on 10 July 2016. Cotes was consecrated on 1 April 1554 by bishops
Stephen Gardiner
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of Winchester
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, Edmund Bonner
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of London
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, and Cuthbert Tunstall
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, and received papal provision
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on 6 July 1554. However, he held the post for only a short period of time before he died in c. January 1556.
During the Marian Persecutions
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he had Protestant George Marsh burnt at the stake as a heretic.Retrieved on 10 July 2016.
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References
*F. Sanders, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in ''Notes and Queries'' 1894 series 8-V (1894) 48–49. *F. Huskisson & E. Marshall, 'George Cotes, Master of Balliol and Bishop of Chester', in ''Notes and Queries'' series 8-V (1894) 153. 1556 deaths 16th-century English Roman Catholic bishops Bishops of Chester Fellows of Balliol College, Oxford Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Year of birth unknown Masters of Balliol College, Oxford {{UK-RC-bishop-stub