17 Facts About Christopher Bainbridge

Christopher Bainbridge was born in Hilton, Westmorland, to an established local family with roots in Bainbridge, North Yorkshire.

Christopher Bainbridge was said to have been fifty years old at his death and must therefore have been born about 1464.

Christopher Bainbridge was granted an indult in 1479 which allowed him to hold church benefices while still unordained and under the age of 16, and another in 1482 that allowed him to hold more than one benefice concurrently.

Christopher Bainbridge was described as magister, or scientist, by 1486.

Christopher Bainbridge's will appointed Christopher Bainbridge one of his executors, and Bainbridge was one of three who swore to administer at probate in 1501.

Aubery repeats what was said by Paride de' Grassi in his Life of Julius II concerning two occasions on which Christopher Bainbridge acted surprisingly while in Rome.

Christopher Bainbridge had hardly begun his speech when he suddenly said nothing more by way of thanks or explanation, and left the conclave amidst much confusion.

Christopher Bainbridge went clean against these instructions and again cut his speech short.

Christopher Bainbridge was immediately sent with an army to lay siege to Ferrara, but the creation of the Holy League relieved the papacy of some pressure by involving Spain against the French forces.

Christopher Bainbridge took part in the 1513 papal conclave, where at the first scrutiny he himself received two votes, and gave his own vote to Fabrizio del Carretto, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller.

The Liber Pontificalis of Archbishop Christopher Bainbridge, which is the latest surviving example of the Old English rite, and contains musical notation, was edited for the Surtees Society.

Christopher Bainbridge implicated Silvester de Giglis, then Bishop of Worcester, as the instigator of the plot.

Christopher Bainbridge was buried in the chapel of St Thomas of Canterbury at the English hospice in Rome, which later became the Venerable English College.

Christopher Bainbridge's tomb is there represented by a white marble monument with a full-length recumbent effigy supported by two lions.

Christopher Bainbridge left "Baldington" Manor, Oxfordshire to Queen's College, making provision for a chantry to be maintained by the college for himself and for Thomas Langton, and for the souls of their parents, in the church of St Michael in Bongate at Appleby.

Langton's executors, among them John Wythers and Christopher Bainbridge, used the surplus of his estate to purchase the manor of Helton Bacon, or Beacon.

The records of Queen's College show that the Bongate chantry under the Christopher Bainbridge endowment remained active until the Dissolution, and pensions were still being paid to proxies into the 1570s.