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DID YOU KNOW? #1
Bishop Stephen Gardiner – Lord Chancellor who burned Protestants under Mary I – was NOT Cardinal Wolsey’s bastard.
He was the legitimate son of John Gardiner of Bury St Edmunds (d.1507), cloth-merchant and younger brother of the man who killed Richard III. Source: PROB 11/15/219 (John’s will, 1507 – “my son Stephen”)
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