{{Short description|British bishop (1542 – 1596)}} {{For|the professor of American history|Hugh Hale Bellot}} {{Use British English|date=December 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2026}} thumb|Arms: Or on a chief Gules three cinquefoils of the first.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cheshire-heraldry.org.uk/bishops/ |title=The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester |publisher=Cheshire Heraldry Society |accessdate=9 February 2021}}</ref> '''Hugh Bellot''' (1542 – 1596) was an English prelate during the Tudor period, who served as bishop of Bangor and then bishop of Chester.
Dr Bellot assisted William Morgan in his Welsh-language translation of the Bible.
==Life== Bellot graduated B.A. from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1564, proceeding M.A. before election as a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1567,<ref>{{acad|id=BLT561H|name=Bellot, Hugh}}</ref> later receiving the degree of D.D.
The third of ten sons of Thomas Bellot, lord of the manor of Moreton Magna, Cheshire by his wife Alice Roydon, a Welsh-speaker from Denbighshire, reputedly he was a misogynist.<ref>A. L. Rowse, ''The Expansion of Elizabethan England'' (2003 edition), p. 78.</ref>
A younger brother, Cuthbert Bellot, became Archdeacon of Chester, whilst he also helped secure an advantageous marriage for his nephew, Edward Bellot with Amy Grosvenor, whose grandson was created a baronet.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=LKIKAAAAYAAJ&dq=Edward+BELLOT%2C+of+Moreton&pg=PA54 ''Burke's Extinct Baronetcies'', BELLOT, Bt]</ref>
Bellot was consecrated as bishop of Bangor in 1585,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/bishops/ |title=Bishops |publisher=The Church in Wales |website=Churchineales.org |date=2008-12-06 |accessdate=2016-07-15 |archive-date=7 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607051242/http://www.churchinwales.org.uk/bangor/diocese/bishops/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and was translated in 1595 to the see of Chester.<ref>Records of Early English Drama: Cheshire including Chester at [https://books.google.com/books?id=YZ56Idfl7E0C&dq=%20Hugh%20Bellot&pg=PR131 Google Books]</ref> He died at Whitsuntide the following year at the Bishop's Palace, Chester being buried at Bersham, Denbighshire (now Clwyd).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wrecsam.com/cambrian.html |title=Cambrian Travellers Guide Wrexham 1840 |website=Wrecsam.com |date= |accessdate=2016-07-15}}</ref>
== See also == *Bellot baronets *Welsh Bible
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== *{{cite DNB|wstitle=Bellot, Hugh |first=James |last=Mew|volume=4}} *{{cite ODNB|id=2060|first=Glanmor|last= Williams|title=Bellot, Hugh (1542–1596)}}
==External links== * [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1847/vol11/pp37-42 www.british-history.ac.uk]
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