Cuthbert Tunstall
A conservative bishop
Cuthbert Tunstall (1474 - ), Bishop of Durham and London
The story so far…
Week 2: At Austin Friars / Visitation
Tunstall is mentioned in passing in “Visitation” as a man unlikely to be the next Lord Chancellor after Wolsey.
Week 4: An Occult History of Britain (Part 2)
In 1527, Tunstall is rounding up heretics, buying and burning heretical texts (and men), and failing to catch the master draper Humphrey Monmouth in possession of Tyndale’s works.
Week 44: Corpus Christi (Part 1/2)
The Lutheran princes send delegates to Henry’s court. Robert Barnes and Cuthbert Tunstall are on England’s negotiation team.
Tunstall is a subtle man, experienced, congenial. It is dismaying how the king favours him, conferring with him as he rides from house to house; he does not let the godly Germans get in the way of his hunting.
Week 45: Corpus Christi (Part 2/2) / Inheritance
Genial, mild Tunstall is seated with the other bishops. ‘My lord Cromwell, why does Lambert have two names? It seems to trouble the king as much as his heresies.’