Edmund Bonner

Edmund Bonner (also Edmund Boner) (c. 1500 – 5 September 1569), Bishop of London, is an English bishop.

Initially an instrumental figure in the schism of Henry VIII from Rome, he is antagonized by the Protestant reforms introduced by Somerset and reconciles himself to Roman Catholicism.

He becomes notorious as Bloody Bonner for his role in the persecution of heretics under the Catholic government of Mary I of England, and ends his life as a prisoner under Queen Elizabeth.

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