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​Henry VIII, the Reign


Part Six -
​Wolsey’s Rise to Chief Arbiter of Christendom

Henry VIII, the Reign

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​Wolsey’s Rise to Chief Arbiter of Christendom
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​Wolsey Usurps the Pope’s Plans – Cardinal Arranges Treaty of  London in 1518 –

​ Wolsey Appoints Himself Christendom’s Papa

   

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While Campeggio waited at Calais, Wolsey had been conducting clandestine negotiations in London with Étienne de Poncher, Bishop of Paris, in a process initiated from Paris back on 8 April 1518.

As a result of their deliberations, on 2 October 1518 England and France bilaterally agreed Wolsey’s new plan for perpetual peace in Christendom, which turned Tournai over to France at a price of six hundred thousand crowns. Subsequently, more than twenty other powers followed in making a peace agreement, and by March 1519 both Spain and Venice had also ratified the treaty, which was known as the Treaty of London.
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Wolsey had usurped the papal initiative and become the self-appointed arbiter and steward of Christendom. He had succeeded in self-aggrandisement in a fashion that His Holiness had set out to achieve for his own glorification.

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Notes and Links Part 6

Nothing pleases him [Wolsey] more than to be styled the arbitrator of the affairs of Christendom LP 125
Wolsey hosts a banquet, ‘the like of which was never given either by Cleopatra or Caligula’​ LP 1085 (Venice)
​Arrival of an ambassador from France to ratify the league LP 1178 (Venice)
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