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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.
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 ...
Cardinal Wolsey contracted the illness and survived. [29] The disease was brought to Hamburg by a ship from England in July 1529. [30] It spread along the Baltic coast, north to Denmark, Sweden, and Norway as well as south to Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Cologne, Marburg, and Göttingen in September of that year. [31]
Sir Brian Tuke (died 26 October 1545) was the secretary of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey. He served as the first Governor of the King's Posts (later the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom ) from 1517 to 1545.
He served Cardinal Wolsey as treasurer of the cardinal's household from 1523 to the cardinal's downfall in 1529 and afterwards served as steward to John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer. He represented Bedfordshire in Parliament as a knight of the shire in 1529 and 1536. On his death in 1540 he was buried at Cardington. He had married twice.
1528 Imprisoned at Cardinal College in the institution's fish cellar by Cardinal Wolsey; 1528 Roughly 6 months later, Cardinal Wolsey released surviving fish cellar prisoners on the paroling condition of residing within a 10-mile radius around Oxford; 1528 Fled England for Antwerp; 1528 Travelled to Marburg, Germany; 1532 Returned to England ...
Gardiner's pleading was unsuccessful. Though the issue had not been specifically resolved, a general commission was granted, enabling Wolsey, along with Papal Legate, Cardinal Campeggio, to try the case in England. While grateful to the pope for the small concession, Wolsey viewed this as inadequate for the purpose in view.
The final instalment in the Wolf Hall series will also see Jonathan Pryce reprise his role as Cardinal Wolsey, who was removed from his position as Lord Chancellor after failing to get Henry VIII ...