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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] Wolsey's affairs prospered and by 1514 he had become the controlling figure in virtually all matters of state.
The signatories were Burgundy, France, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, the Papal States and Spain, all of whom agreed not to attack one another and to come to the aid of any that were under attack. [2] [3] The treaty was designed by Cardinal Wolsey and so came to be signed by the ambassadors of the nations concerned in London. [4]
George Cavendish (1497 – c. 1562) was an English writer, best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. [1] His Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the "most important single contemporary source for Wolsey's life" which also offers a "detailed picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political ...
Henry VIII and his courtiers visited Wolsey at Hampton Court in masque costume in January 1527, disguised as shepherds to play mumchance and dance. [18] Wolsey was only to enjoy his palace for a few years. [15] In 1529, knowing that his enemies and the King were engineering his downfall, he passed the palace to the King as a gift. Wolsey died ...
c. September – German artist Hans Holbein the Younger begins a two-year stay in England. [2] 1527. 30 April – by the Treaty of Westminster, Cardinal Wolsey signs an alliance between England and France. [2] 17 May – Archbishop William Warham holds a secret inquiry into the legality of Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. [3]
The poem is written on the model of Thomas Churchyard's legend on the history of Wolsey in The Mirrour for Magistrates. It consists of three parts, "Wolseius aspirans", "Wolseius triumphans", and "Wolseius moriens"; these contain respectively 101, 89, and 51 seven-line stanzas of decasyllabic verse (rhyming ababbcc, as in rhyme royal ).
England also agreed to work to secure the release of King Francis of France, then held prisoner by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. England had been troubled by the threat of a renewal of the " Auld Alliance " between France and Scotland, and France agreed to prevent the Scottish Duke of Albany 's return to Scotland.
Robert Whittington (also spelt Wittinton, Whitynton, [1] or Whitinton; [2] c. 1480 – c. 1553) was an English grammarian.He was a pupil at Magdalen College School, Oxford, where he probably studied under the grammarian John Stanbridge.