Wolsey

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  • Created on: 12-12-17 17:01
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  • Thomas Wolsey
    • background
      • son of a butcher
      • gained royal favour through administration
      • gained degree at 15
    • timeline
      • 1509 Royal almoner
        • 1513 introduced subsidy
          • 1515 lord chanceller
            • 1517 enquiry into enclosure
              • 1519 purge of the privy chamber
                • 1522 forced lawns
                  • 1525 amicabble grant
                    • 1526 eltham ordinances
                      • 1518 legatus legare
                        • 1520 field of cloth of gold
                          • 1527 wolsey fails to get an annulment
                            • 1529 preamanure
                              • 1530 arrested and dies
    • remained in power as long as he was useful
      • 'alter rex'
    • foreign policies
      • good
        • treaty of london united 20 countries
        • theruane and thernai brought kingship and future negotiation points
        • field of cloth of gold added prestige
        • attempted legal, economic, and social reform
          • improve justice in star chamber
            • encourage ordinary men to seek justice
              • national enquiry on enclosure
      • bad
        • naive and unrealistic aims
        • 1.4 million spent fighting wars
        • forced loans caused uprisings
        • often tricked by other monarchs
    • similarities to cromwell
      • from a humble backgroundrelied on henry for promotion
    • personality
      • obssessed with power
      • determined
      • did jobs henry didnt want to do
    • reasons for wolseys fall
      • faction
        • anne bolyn prevented him from seeing henry
        • enemies due upbringing
        • only emphasised it
      • failure of taxation and amicable grant
        • henry wanted power which came from war which needed money
        • humiliation
        • 4 years later
      • failure of divorce
        • henry needed a divorce quick
    • Eltham Ordinances 1926, Allowed his to remove those close to Henry without suspicion even though it was for his own benefit.
    • Court of the Star Chamber, used power to challenge nobles, some believe he used it to get revenge
    • Built Hampton Court in his own design for himself- when he died Henry moved into it, showing it was fit for a King
    • Could not criticise, Wolsey's policies were Henry's policies as he was in charge of him

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