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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. [1] [2] The treaty was designed by Cardinal Wolsey and so came to be signed by the ambassadors of the nations concerned in London. [3]
In 1528 Cardinal Wolsey sequestrated Rumburgh Priory for funds to build his college at Ipswich. [ 8 ] The breakdown of relations between Henry VIII and the Church in Rome, prompted by his marriage to Anne Boleyn , resulted in the Statute in Restraint of Appeals of 1533, forbidding all appeals to the Pope in Rome on religious or other matters. [ 9 ]
This is a list of cardinals of the Catholic Church from England. It does not include cardinals of non-English national origin appointed to English ecclesiastical offices such as the cardinal protectors of England. Dates in parentheses are the dates of elevation and death (or, in the case of Pope Adrian IV, the date of his election as pope).
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]
Sir William Butts played an important role in King Henry's relations with Thomas Wolsey, while the Cardinal lay sick at Esher in 1529/30. [9] He was a known Protestant and close associate of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, and of Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of Henry VIII. [10]
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 ...
It was celebrated by Henry and the French ambassadors at the More, Hertfordshire, a castle owned by Henry's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey. [1] [2] England, with Wolsey negotiating, agreed to give up some territorial claims on France, receiving in return a pension from the French of £20,000 a year.