He openly boasted to the king when unruly nobles were brought into line; certainly, this did not endear him to courtiers either. His influence upon the English church was mostly negative. He did not consciously encourage separation from Rome, but he did not actively encourage their involvement in the English church. Put another way, one could argue that the English church was more nationalized than its European counterparts. And this independence would ease the way into its eventual acceptance of the king as its supreme head, rather than the pope.
Wolsey also began the process of suppressing various monasteries in an attempt to consolidate his own wealth. If you use any of the content on this page in your own work, please use the code below to cite this page as the source of the content. Link will appear as Hanson, Marilee. Image Source. Thomas Wosley. Read More English History Topics. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits.
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The king kept him from prison but stripped him of many offices and all of his power. Wolsey was ordered to retire to his archbishopric of York. Indiscreet letters to Rome led to his arrest on 4 November.
He died on the 24th while returning to London and, most likely, execution at the Tower. Hall implies that Wolsey committed suicide. He did not. He died on the 24th, while returning to London and, most likely, execution at the Tower. You have heard under the last year how the cardinal of York [Wolsey] was attainted in praemunire, and despite that the king had given him the bishoprics of York and Winchester, with great possessions, and had licensed him to live in his diocese of York.
The cardinal would also speak fair to the people to win their hearts, and always declared that he was unjustly and untruly commanded, which fair speaking made many men believe that he spoke the truth. And to be held in higher repute by the people he determined to be installed or enthroned at York with all possible pomp, and caused a throne to be erected in the Cathedral Church of such a height and design as was never seen before; and he sent to all the lords, abbots, priors, knights, esquires and gentlemen of his diocese to be at his manor of Cawood on 6 November, and so to bring him to York with all pomp and solemnity.
The King, who knew of his doings and secret communications, all this year pretended to ignore them to see what he would eventually do, until he saw his proud heart so highly exalted that he intended to be so triumphantly installed without informing the king, even as if in disdain of the king.
Then the king thought it was not fitting or convenient to let him any longer continue in his malicious and proud purposes and attempts. Therefore I wonder why I now should be arrested, especially considering that I am a member of the apostolic See, on whom no temporal man should lay violent hands. Well, I see the King lacks good counsel. About this arrest there was much talk among the common people, and many were glad, for surely he was not in favour with the commons.
When the cardinal was thus arrested the king sent Sir William Kingston Knight, captain of the guard and constable of the Tower of London with some of the yeomen of the guard to Sheffield, to fetch the cardinal to the Tower. When the cardinal saw the captain of the guard he was much astonished and shortly became ill, for he foresaw some great trouble, and for that reason men said he willingly took so much strong purgative that his constitution could not bear it.
But Sir William Kingston comforted him, and by easy journeys he brought him to the Abbey of Leicester on 27 November, where through weakness caused by purgatives and vomiting he died the second night following, and is buried in the same Abbey.
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Link will appear as Hanson, Marilee. Read More English History Topics. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. In he planned his enthronement as archbishop of York, never having been officially installed, but he was found in correspondence with foreign powers, contrary to the King's order.
Wolsey was arrested at Cawood near York and ordered to London. He would doubtless have been executed on false charges of treason had he not died a natural death on the way to London. Lamenting that he had not served God as well as he had the King, Wolsey succumbed at Leicester on Nov. Despite Wolsey's supreme influence in Church and state, his achievements in both spheres were ephemeral. His greatest lasting monument is perhaps Hampton Court Palace, which he constructed on the Thames River west of London and where he lived in great pomp surrounded by an enormous retinue of servants and retainers.
George Cavendish, the cardinal's gentleman-usher, wrote The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey , one of the masterpieces of early biography. The best edition is that by Richard S. Sylvester Modern biographies include Albert F.
Pollard, Wolsey , and Charles W. There is related material in Albert F. All rights reserved. Fall from Favor By this time Henry's mind was preoccupied with his desire for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Pollard, A. Albert Frederick , Wolsey, Westport, Conn.
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