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==Career==

==Career==

Cranmer in Nottinghamshire and from age 14 he attended Cambridge University, where he received a sound [[humanist]] education and was elected Fellow of Jesus College about 1511. He forfeited his fellowship when he married, but was reelected on his wife's death. He took holy orders as a Roman Catholic priest in 1523 and became a university examiners in theology. Cranmer in 1529 suggested that the university faculties of Europe should be consulted on the controversial legality of [[Henry VIII]]'s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. thereby avoiding an appeal to Rome for its annulment. Henry welcomed the idea and put Cranmer in charge of its execution. Cranmer headed a delegation to Rome to discuss the matter.  

Cranmer was born in Nottinghamshire; from age 14 he attended Cambridge University, where he received a sound [[humanist]] education and was elected Fellow of Jesus College about 1511. He forfeited his fellowship when he married, but was reelected on his wife's death. He took holy orders as a Roman Catholic priest in 1523 and became a university examiners in theology. Cranmer in 1529 suggested that the university faculties of Europe should be consulted on the controversial legality of [[Henry VIII]]'s marriage to Catherine of Aragon. thereby avoiding an appeal to Rome for its annulment. Henry welcomed the idea and put Cranmer in charge of its execution. Cranmer headed a delegation to Rome to discuss the matter.  

In 1531 the king sent Cranmer to Germany to arrange an alliance with the Lutheran princes. In 1532 he married a niece of the German Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiander.

In 1531 the king sent Cranmer to Germany to arrange an alliance with the Lutheran princes. In 1532 he married a niece of the German Lutheran theologian Andreas Osiander.