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View Tree for George GardinerGeorge Gardiner (b. 1510, d. date unknown)

George Gardiner (son of Stephen Gardiner and Margaret Grey) was born 1510 in Berwick-on-Tweed219, and died date unknown. He married Margaret De Neville.

 Includes NotesNotes for George Gardiner:
In 1544 was employed as his secretary, was put to death for treason in reference to the king's supremacy, and his enemies insinuated to the king that he himself was of his secretary's way of thinking. But in truth the king had need of him quite as much as he had of Cranmer; for it was Gardiner, who even under royal supremacy, was anxious to prove that England had not fallen away from the faith, while Cranmer's authority as primate was necessary to upholding that supremacy. Thus Gardiner and the archbishop maintained opposite sides of the king's church policy; and though Gardiner was encouraged by the king to put up articles against the archbishop himself for heresy, the archbishop could always rely on the king's protection in the end. Heresy was gaining ground in high places, especially after the king's marriage with Catherine Parr; and there seems to be some truth in the story that the queen herself was nearly committed for it at one time, when Gardiner, with the king's approbation, censured some of her expressions in conversation. In fact, just after her marriage, four men of the Court were condemned at Windsor and three of them were burned. The fourth, who was the musician Marbeck, was pardoned by Gardiner's procurement.


Children of George Gardiner and Margaret De Neville are:
  1. +George Gardiner, Jr., b. 1535, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England219, d. Jun 1589.
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