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Hace 2 días · Moreover, in Thomas Wolsey, who organized his first campaign in France, Henry discovered his first outstanding minister. By 1515 Wolsey was archbishop of York, lord chancellor of England , and a cardinal of the church; more important, he was the king’s good friend, to whom was gladly left the active conduct of affairs.
- Henry was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV. When his elder brother, Arthur, died in 1502, Henry became the heir to...
- Henry VIII married six times between 1509 and 1543 in pursuit of heirs and political alliances. His wives were Catherine of Aragon (the mother of M...
- Henry VIII was survived by three children, each of whom sat on the throne of England: Edward VI (ruled 1547–53), Mary I (ruled 1553–58), and Elizab...
- Henry VIII was the king of England (1509–47). He broke with the Roman Catholic Church and had Parliament declare him supreme head of the Church of...
- Of his six wives, Henry VIII had two killed: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He accused Anne of adultery, and she was convicted and beheaded on M...
Hace 6 días · Thomas Wolsey, who had been left in London to deal with state affairs, contracted sweating sickness. He survived the disease but was weakened and resorted to dealing with government issues from his bed.
Hace 3 días · Sir Thomas More PC (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, amateur theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist.
Hace 1 día · On 30th May 1536, eleven days after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour in the Queen’s Closet at Whitehall, a property that he’d renovated with Anne…. Transcript: On this day in Tudor history, Tuesday 30th May, just eleven days after the execution of his second wife, Queen Anne Boleyn, King ...
Hace 3 días · We are told that Thomas Rotherham or Scot, who was archbishop from 1480 to 1500, did a great amount of rebuilding in his various manors, and among others "at his inn near Westminster. In 1514 Thomas Wolsey (created cardinal in the following year) was translated from Lincoln to York.
Hace 4 días · Cardinal Thomas Wolsey refused the match in January 1524. In February or March 1526, Henry VIII began his pursuit of Anne. She resisted his attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress, as her sister Mary had previously been.
Hace 5 días · So, when Fisher, a cloth merchant’s son, was elected chancellor-for-life of Cambridge University, and Henry VIII appointed Thomas More, a lawyer’s son, Chancellor of England—and worst of all, when Thomas Wolsey, a butcher’s son, rose to became cardinal, papal nuncio, and Chancellor of England—the nobles were close to ...
