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Council of the North

The Council of the North was an administrative body first set up in 1484 by King Richard III of England, to improve access to conciliar justice in Northern England. This built upon steps by King Edward IV of England in delegating authority in the north to Richard, duke of Gloucester (i.e. before Richard himself became king), and in establishing the Council of Wales and the Marches.[1]

The Council of the North

1484

1641

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford (final)

It was based in Yorkshire throughout its history: first at Sheriff Hutton Castle and at Sandal Castle, and then at King's Manor, York. Henry VIII re-established the council after the English Reformation, when the north became identified with Roman Catholicism. It was abolished in 1641, just before the English Civil War.

Prior to 1530 see Reid's Appendix II.

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Bishop of Durham 1530–1533

Cuthbert Tunstall

1533–1536

Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland

1536–1537

Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

Bishop of Durham 1537–1538

Cuthbert Tunstall

Bishop of Llandaff (later Archbishop of York), 1538–1549

Robert Holgate

1549–1560

Francis Talbot, 5th Earl of Shrewsbury

1561–1563

Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland

1564

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick

Archbishop of York, 1564–1568

Thomas Young

1568–1572

Thomas Radcliffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex

1572–1595

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon

Bishop of Durham & Archbishop of York, 1596–1599

Matthew Hutton

1599–1603

Thomas Cecil, Lord Burghley

1603–1619

Edmund Sheffield, 3rd Baron Sheffield

1619–1628

Emanuel Scrope, 1st Earl of Sunderland

1628–1641

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford

Council of Wales and the Marches

Council of the West

Holy Jesus Hospital

Armstrong, Jackson W. (2020). . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108472999. OCLC 1249750829.

England's Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches

Brooks, Frederick William (1954). York and the Council of the North. Borthwick Publications.

Brooks, Frederick William (1966). The Council of the North (pamphlet no. 25). Historical Association.

Evans, Antonia, ed. (2002). The York Book. York: Blue Bridge.  0-9542749-0-3.

ISBN

Reid, Rachel R. (1921). . London: Longmans, Green and Co.

The King's Council in the North

Ross, Charles D. (1981). . English Monarchs series. London: Eyre Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-29530-9. OCLC 251461788.

Richard III

The Act of Henry VIII

University of York King's Manor page

BBC on the King's Manor

List of Presidents at the Tudor Place