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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]
The More (also known as the Manor of the More) was a 16th-century palace in the parish of Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, where Catherine of Aragon lived after the annulment of her marriage to Henry VIII. It had been owned by Cardinal Wolsey. It lay at the northeast corner of the later More Park estate on the edge of the Colne flood ...
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 ...
Before long his abilities attracted the notice of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who made him his secretary, [7] and in this capacity he is said to have been with him at The More in Hertfordshire, when the conclusion of the celebrated Treaty of the More brought King Henry VIII and the French ambassadors there. This was probably the occasion on which ...
In 1515, Wolsey sent Pace to urge the Swiss to attack France. He was engaged in a lengthy negotiation with Emperor Maximillian I regarding Henry's support of the Emperor's activities against the French in northern Italy, but upon Wolsey's instructions, used the 100,000 florins deposited on his behalf in Antwerp to pay for Swiss soldiers ...
The Treaty of the More was concluded on 30 August 1525 between Henry VIII and the interim French government of Louise of Savoy.It was celebrated by Henry and the French ambassadors at the More, Hertfordshire, a castle owned by Henry's chief minister, Cardinal Wolsey.
Damian Lewis, Jonathan Pryce, Kate Phillips and Lilit Lesser are also confirmed to return, respectively playing King Henry VIII, Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII’s third wife Jane Seymou.
Henry sent his second-most trusted physician to her aid, his first being unavailable, and she survived. [28] Cardinal Wolsey contracted the illness and survived. [29] The disease was brought to Hamburg by a ship from England in July 1529. [30]