11 Facts About Henry Guildford

Sir Henry Guildford, KG was an English courtier of the reign of King Henry VIII, master of the horse and comptroller of the royal household.

Henry Guildford was the son of Sir Richard Guildford by his second marriage to Joan, sister of Sir Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden.

Henry Guildford took on administrative duties, such as Chamberlain of the Exchequer from 1525 and in 1526 was invested as a Knight of the Garter.

Henry Guildford then accompanied Cardinal Wolsey on a diplomatic mission to France, and was acknowledged by Francis I as an ambassador.

Henry Guildford was actually receiving at this time a pension from Francis under the treaty of the Moore.

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When Thomas Cromwell came as Wolsey's agent to suppress the small priories in Kent for his college at Oxford, Henry Guildford asked him to visit him at Leeds Castle, with a view to obtaining from him the farm of the suppressed house of Bilsington.

Henry Guildford met the legate on Barham Downs, and at Dartford informed him of the arrangements for his entering London.

Henry Guildford was one of those whose friendship the out-of-favour Wolsey secured, on Thomas Cromwell's advice, by a pension.

Henry Guildford was still in high favour with the king, but he was strongly opposed to the policy the king was now pursuing of casting off his wife without a papal sentence and fortifying himself against the pope and emperor by a French alliance.

Henry Guildford answered that she need take no trouble about that, for he would give it up himself, and he immediately went to the king to tender his resignation.

Henry Guildford's second was Mary, daughter of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent.