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Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury, Keeper 1500 1502 Henry VII (1485–1509) William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, Keeper to 1504 1502 1515 Henry VIII (1509–1547) Thomas Wolsey, Cardinal Archbishop of York: 1515 1529 Thomas More [b] 1529 1532 Thomas Audley (Lord Audley of Walden from 1538) [b] 1532 1544 Lord Wriothesley: 1544 1547 ...
Thomas Wolsey [a] (/ ˈ w ʊ l z i / WUUL-zee; [1] c. March 1473 [2] – 29 November 1530) was an English statesman and Catholic cardinal.When Henry VIII became King of England in 1509, Wolsey became the king's almoner. [3]
He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532. [5] He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state. [6] More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale.
Thomas Cromwell (/ ˈ k r ɒ m w əl,-w ɛ l /; [1] [a] c. 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English statesman and lawyer who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charges for the execution.
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon ) annulled .
Until May 1539, he was Henry VIII's ambassador in Brussels. [9] In late 1539, Anne of Cleves was due to come from the German duchy to England, and Wriothesley was to lead the naval escort. On 27 December the Princess arrived at Deal in Kent, from whence she was shown to Dover Castle. On New Years Day the party reached Rochester Castle.
Rich was an assistant executor of the will of King Henry VIII, and received a grant of lands. [14] He became Baron Rich of Leez on 26 February 1547. In the next month he succeeded Wriothesley as chancellor.
Henry was deeply suspicious, as Francis, ostensibly his ally, had previously maintained the justice of his cause in the matter of the divorce. It was at this interview that Edmund Bonner intimated the appeal of Henry VIII to a general council in case the Pope should venture to proceed to sentence against him. This appeal, and another on behalf ...