Hugh Bellot (1542 – 1596) was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.
Dr Bellot assisted William Morgan in his Welsh-language translation of the Bible.
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Bellot graduated B.A. from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1564, proceeding M.A. before election as a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1567,[2] later receiving the degree of D.D.
The third of ten sons of Thomas Bellot, lord of the manor of Moreton Magna, Cheshire by his wife Alice Roydon, a Welsh-speaker from Denbighshire, reputedly he was a misogynist.[3]
A younger brother, Cuthbert Bellot, became Archdeacon of Chester, whilst he also helped secure an advantageous marriage for his nephew, Edward Bellot with Amy Grosvenor, whose grandson was created a baronet.[4]
Bellot was consecrated as bishop of Bangor in 1585,[5] and was translated in 1595 to the see of Chester.[6] He died at Whitsuntide the following year at the Bishop's Palace, Chester being buried at Bersham, Denbighshire (now Clwyd).[7]
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Notes edit
- ^ "The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester". Cheshire Heraldry Society. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
- ^ "Bellot, Hugh (BLT561H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ A. L. Rowse, The Expansion of Elizabethan England (2003 edition), p. 78.
- ^ Burke's Extinct Baronetcies, BELLOT, Bt
- ^ "Bishops". Churchineales.org. The Church in Wales. 6 December 2008. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
- ^ Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester at Google Books
- ^ "Cambrian Travellers Guide Wrexham 1840". Wrecsam.com. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
References edit
- Mew, James (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Williams, Glanmor. "Bellot, Hugh (1542–1596)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2060. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)