Christopher Urswick

Christopher Urswick (1448–1522) was a priest and confessor of Margaret Beaufort.

Urswick is thought to have acted as a go-between in the plotting to place her son Henry VII of England on the throne.

His father, John Urswick, and his mother were lay brother and sister of Furness Abbey.

[2] He declined the position of Bishop of Norwich in 1498 and was collated Archdeacon of Oxford in 1504.

[3] He appears as a minor character in Shakespeare's Richard III.