Cranmer's Kids

A post by bls on the Feast of the Purification started me thinking about The Churching of Women, something which would make most modern Episcopal women I know boil. The thought I had was that Cranmer's choice to include the rite in the Prayer Book as quite interesting, because it's a genuine case of a non-celibate male theologizing about reproduction and female sexuality in the catholic tradition, something which many feminists think doesn't happen. But this is a rather moot point if Cranmer was childless. His wife never had to go through the "humiliating ritual" as some call it. But I had no idea whether Cranmer ever had children. Having no full biography of Cranmer to hand, I went googling to find this item from the Journal of the Commons . A similar item is in the Journal of the Lords, which signifies that Parliament restored the inheritance rights of Cranmer's children, lost when their father was convicted of high treason and heresy. The item also suggests that Cranmer and his wife were rather lucky, having christened two surviving children with their parents' names.