Henry Holbeach, Bishop of Lincoln was a native of Holbeach, Lincolnshire. Holbeach is a fenland market town with approximately 5,000 residents in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England, traditionally the second largest after Yorkshire. ...
His real name was Henry Randes but on becoming a monk of Crowland he assumed the name of his birthplace. He was married, his wife Joan proving his will on 5 October1551 and he left a son Thomas Randes. Holbeach developed the sweating sickness and died on 2 August1551 at Nettleham (some accounts give 6 August as date of death) and was buried there on 7 August1551. Trinity Bridge, Crowland Crowland (modern usage) or Croyland (medieval era name) is a town in Lincolnshire, England, positioned between Peterborough and Spalding, with two major sites of historical interest. ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ... Sweating sickness was an unusual illness which was extremely virulent for about a century, confined mainly to England, and then seemed to vanish. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ... Nettleham is a village in the county of Lincolnshire in England with around 3,500 inhabitants, located 4 miles north-east of the city of Lincoln. ... August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... August 7 is the 219th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (220th in leap years), with 146 days remaining. ... Events Russia, Reforming Synod of the metropolite Macaire, Orthodoxy: introduction of a calendar of the saints and an ecclesiastical law code ( Stoglav ) Major outbreak of the sweating sickness in England. ...
Holbeach is a fenland market town with approximately 10,000 residents in the South Holland district of southern Lincolnshire.
The name "Holbeach" also applies to the entire parish of Holbeach, (population 24,000 and one of the largest parishes by area in England), and along with the town of Holbeach proper, the name is found in several villages in the Lincolnshire Fens:
The Royal Air Force maintains a bombing range, known officially as RAF Holbeach, on salt marshland at the coast of Holbeach parish, near the village of Gedney Drove End.
In 1536 the Diocese of Lincoln was the scene of the "Pilgrimage of Grace", an armed protest against the religious changes which was followed by numerous executions.
The reformer, Bishop Holbeach plundered the cathedral during the reign of Edward VI, and the restored Catholic Bishops under Mary had little to time repair the damage.
The arms of the see were: gules, two lions passant gardant or, in a chief azure Our Lady sitting with her Babe, crown and sceptre of the second.
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