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Margaret Cranmer (died Ca. 1575) niece of Andreas Osiander, was the first woman to be married to an Archbishop of Canterbury. She married Thomas Cranmer in 1532 and travelled back to England with him, fleeing in 1556 on the accession of Mary I. After Cranmer's execution, she married his publisher, Edward Whitchurch. After the latters death, she married a third time to Bartholomew Scott.

Early life and marriage

She was the niece of Katharina Preu, wife of Andreas Osiander, a prominent theologian of the Lutheran faith in Nuremburg, Germany. It was through her uncle that she met Thomas Cranmer, while he was visiting Germany on an embassy seeking German support for the divorce of King Henry VIII from his then wife, Catherine of Aragon in 1532.