Thomas Wolsey
A mindmap about Thomas Wolsey: dealings with parliament, relations with nobility, financial policies, economic policies, legal reforms, church reforms, rise to and fall from power
- Created by: Matt Simpson
- Created on: 14-01-14 17:29
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- Thomas Wolsey
- Rise to power
- 1509 - HVIIII's accession
- HVIII disliked admin - happily left it to someone else
- Warham resigned as Chancellor
- Success of First French War in 1513
- 1509 - became Royal Almoner - had access to HVIII's finances
- Very clever - graduated from Oxford at 15
- Success of First French War in 1513
- Positions in church
- 1514 - Archbishop of York
- 1513 - Bishop of Tournai
- 1515 - made a Cardinal
- 1509 - HVIIII's accession
- Economic policies
- Enclosure
- 1517 - national enquiry
- Cases launched against 264 landlords
- Cases launched against 264 landlords
- Believed laws of 1489 and 1514 against enclosure should be obeyes
- Relations with the nobility
- Restricting finances
- Subsidy hit nobility the hardest as they had the most money!
- Abuses of power
- 1515 - Earl of Northumberland sent to Fleet Prison
- 1516 - Lord Burgavenny accused of illegal retaining
- Duke of Buckingham execution - talked himself into disfavour
- Legal reforms
- Over 9,000 cases 1515-1529
- 1516 - established Court of Requests for the poor's cases
- Case load: 12/year under HVII, 120/year under Wolsey
- System was overworked - backlog of cases by 1529, overflow tribunal at Whitehall set up
- Sir Amyas Paulet - Wolsey's revenge for childhood humiliation
- Centralised the legal system and promoted civil (fairer, simpler) law over common law
- Influence over King
- 1518 - expelled minions under pretence of reform, replaced with neutral
- 1526 - Eltham Ordinances - reduced Privy Chamber from 12 to 6
- When HVIII began to readmit them, Wolsey used the Ordinances to give them ambassadorial roles elsewhere
- Restricting finances
- 1517 - national enquiry
- The 'just price'
- 1518 - fixed poultry prices
- 1527 - after a bad harvest, Wolsey bought up surplus and sold it to the needy
- Enclosure
- Financial policies
- The Subsidy
- Based on income - levied 4 times between 1513-15 and 1523, raising over £300,000
- The Amicable Grant, 1525
- Biggest revolt between Cornish Rising (1497) and Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)
- 1526 - Eltham Ordinances - reduced Privy Chamber from 12 to 6
- Forced loans - 1522
- Relations with the nobility
- Restricting finances
- Subsidy hit nobility the hardest as they had the most money!
- Abuses of power
- 1515 - Earl of Northumberland sent to Fleet Prison
- 1516 - Lord Burgavenny accused of illegal retaining
- Duke of Buckingham execution - talked himself into disfavour
- Legal reforms
- Over 9,000 cases 1515-1529
- 1516 - established Court of Requests for the poor's cases
- Case load: 12/year under HVII, 120/year under Wolsey
- System was overworked - backlog of cases by 1529, overflow tribunal at Whitehall set up
- Sir Amyas Paulet - Wolsey's revenge for childhood humiliation
- Centralised the legal system and promoted civil (fairer, simpler) law over common law
- Influence over King
- 1518 - expelled minions under pretence of reform, replaced with neutral
- When HVIII began to readmit them, Wolsey used the Ordinances to give them ambassadorial roles elsewhere
- Restricting finances
- Raised over £200,000
- Relations with the nobility
- The Subsidy
- Church reforms
- Dissolved 30 decaying monasteries - used money to set up Cardinal College in Oxford
- Behaviour of clergy - nothing really implemented
- Dealings with Parliament
- 1515 - Church matters
- Benefit of Clergy Act of 1512 up for renewal
- Act was not renewed and so Benefit of Clergy was not restricted. Embarrassing for Wolsey
- Church reforms
- Dissolved 30 decaying monasteries - used money to set up Cardinal College in Oxford
- Behaviour of clergy - nothing really implemented
- 1523 - Financial matters
- Wolsey demanded £800,000
- Kept Parliament sitting throughout summer
- Got money but only by abandoning enclosure policies
- Enclosure
- 1517 - national enquiry
- Believed laws of 1489 and 1514 against enclosure should be obeyes
- 1517 - national enquiry
- 1515 - Church matters
- Fall from power
- The annulment failure
- Factions and the role of Anne Boleyn
- The annulment failure
- Previous failures
- The Amicable Grant, 1525
- Biggest revolt between Cornish Rising (1497) and Pilgrimage of Grace (1536)
- The Amicable Grant, 1525
- Rise to power
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