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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 ...
She is a loving stepmother to all three of Henry's children and is made Queen Regent during Henry's absence in France. Bishop Gardiner and others suspect her of heresy and nearly have her arrested for it, but she is able to convince Henry of her devotion to him. Henry's health declines until his death in January 1547. Cardinal Wolsey: Sam Neill ...
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey plays a major part, acting as Henry's trusted advisor. In episode 1, Wolsey persuades Henry to keep the peace with France, and the two kings meet at Calais to sign a pact of friendship. The pressure of wanting a male heir compels Henry to question his marriage to Queen Catherine of Aragon. [10]
Hilary Mantel was acting as consultant on the script adaptation at the time of her death in September 2022. Kominsky, who worked closely with Mantel on the first series and had received installments of the original text as Mantel was writing the third installment of her historical trilogy, released in 2020, said that the series would continue ...
Cardinal Wolsey, now acting solely as the Archbishop of York and living in relative poverty, is repudiated by Anne Boleyn and writes to Queen Katherine, trying to gain her support. Thomas More uses his new powers as Lord Chancellor and starts actively persecuting prominent Lutherans - including burning six of them at the stake, to the anger of ...
The series centres on the character of Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer who has risen from humble beginnings.The action in Series 1 opens at a point in Cromwell's career where his master, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, is about to fall from power because of his failure to secure a marriage annulment for King Henry VIII of England. [5]
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]