# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-bale
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:50:31.472Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-bale"
name: "John Bale"
slug: "john-bale"
description: "John Bale was an English churchman, historian controversialist, and Bishop of Ossory in Ireland. He wrote the oldest known historical verse drama in English, King Johan, which depictes King John in a virtuous struggle against the Catholic Church. Bale also developed and published a very extensive list of the works of British authors down to his own time, just as the monastic libraries were being dispersed. His contention that Joseph of Arimathea had brought a proto-Protestant faith to Britain that was purer than Catholicism was to have far-reaching ramifications; but his unhappy disposition and habit of quarrelling earned him the nickname \"bilious Bale\"."
tagline: "Anglican bishop in Ireland"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bale1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1495-11-21"
deathDate: "1563"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.47
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.418216000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%AA)"
    title: "جون بال (عالم لاهوت)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale_(th%C3%A9ologien)"
    title: "John Bale (théologien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannes_Balaeus"
    title: "Ioannes Balaeus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%BD"
    title: "Бейл, Джон"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bale"
    title: "John Bale"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1234985"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump