{"id":1181,"date":"2025-12-24T11:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jadownes.com\/elizabeth-is-clever-religious-compromise-supreme-governor\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:53:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T11:53:25","slug":"elizabeth-is-clever-religious-compromise-supreme-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/elizabeth-is-clever-religious-compromise-supreme-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth I&#8217;s Clever Religious Compromise: Supreme Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth I&#8217;s 1559 Religious Settlement required all clergy and officials to swear an oath recognising her as &#8216;Supreme Governor&#8217; (not &#8216;Head&#8217;) of the Church of England &#8211; a deliberately gender-neutral compromise since many believed women couldn&#8217;t head the church. Only one Marian bishop, Anthony Kitchin of Llandaff, took the oath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth I&#8217;s 1559 Religious Settlement required all clergy and officials to swear an oath recognising her as &#8216;Supreme Governor&#8217; (not &#8216;Head&#8217;) of the Church of England &#8211; a deliberately gender-neutral compromise since many believed women couldn&#8217;t head the church. Only one Marian bishop, Anthony Kitchin of Llandaff, took the oath.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tudor-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jadownes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}