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Thomas More
Thomas Morus la
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
- Child of John More and Agnes Graunger
- Married to Jane More, Alice More
- Dated c. 7 February 1478 CE – 6 July 1535 CE
- Recognised as Catholic saint, 19 May 1935 CE
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
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Belonged toCatholic Church
largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity - Belonged to
Third Order of Saint Francis ↗
grouping of men and women religious founded by Saint Francis of AssisiHas references
Offices held 6
- 16 April 1523 CE – 13 August 1523 CE Speaker of the House of Commons Number 4 in the sequence
- 15 April 1523 CE – 13 August 1523 CE Member of the 1523 Parliament Number 3 in the sequence Has references
- 31 December 1525 CE – 3 November 1529 CE Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Number 5 in the sequence
- Dates unrecorded Member of the 1504 Parliament Number 1 in the sequence
Family
The family of Thomas More
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 10
Family 10
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Agnes Graunger Peerage person ID=340433
- child of (father) John More English lawyer and judge
- parent of (child) Cecily Heron youngest daughter of Sir Thomas More (1507-1544)
- parent of (child) Elizabeth Dauncey Second daughter of Sir Thomas More
- parent of (child) John More II son of Sir Thomas More (1510-1547)
- parent of (child) Margaret Clement English mathematician
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parent of (father) Margaret Roper English writer, translator; (1505-1544) - sibling of Elizabeth More 1482
- married to Alice More More [née Harpur; other married name Middleton], Alice, Lady More (b. in or after 1474, d. in or before 1551), second wife of Sir Thomas More
- married to Jane More wife of Thomas More
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
Associated with
Connections
How Thomas More connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Veneration 2
What this means
A figure is venerated somewhere or by someone. Not a claim about how many people did, or when they stopped.
Does not imply recognition by any other church or tradition · a judgement about the historicity of the life · the same status in every branch of the church that confers it
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
21 statements on this record
- 14 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 7 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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Review
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Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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