page_title: George Blagge
section_title: Supporting the régime
hierarchical_section_title: George Blagge / Later career / Supporting the régime
caption_attribution_description: English: Stephen Gardiner (1483-1555)
context_page_description: Sir George Blagge was an English courtier, politician, soldier and a minor poet. He was the Member of Parliament for Bedford from 1545 to 1547, and Westminster from 1547 to 1551, during the reign of Edward VI. His trial and condemnation for heresy in 1546 earned him a place in Protestant martyrology. His family surname was frequently rendered Blage by contemporaries, while another variant was Blake.
context_section_description: Blagge's trials and testimonies made him well-adapted to prosper under the regency régime that followed the death of Henry VIII on 28 January 1547. In 1547, for the first time, he was appointed justice of the peace in his home county of Kent.
caption: Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, by an unknown artist. Blagge testified how Gardiner had defended the doctrine of transubstantiation from the pulpit after the Church of England adopted a sacramentarian position.
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