BAINBRIDGE, CHRISTOPHER. — Cardinal Archbishop of York, born at Hilton around 1464, died in Rome on 14 July 1514. Ambassador of Henry VIII to Rome, he was made a cardinal by Julius II in 1511 with the title of S. Prassede. He secured English support for Julius II against France, when Louis XII had turned against that Pontiff, and endeavoured to obtain from Leo X the title of “Most Christian King” for Henry VIII. He was poisoned by Rinaldo da Modena, his treasurer. Silvestro Giglio, bishop of Worcester and English legate in Rome, was held to have been the instigator, and a trial consequently followed, but the accusation against Giglio was not proved.
BIBL.: H. N. Birt, s. V. in The Cathol. Enc., II (1907), col. 207; I. Gardiner, s. V. in Dict. of nat. biography, I (1908), p. 705. Benedetto Gioia