1. William Warham was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.
15 Facts About William Warham
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William Warham's father was a tenant farmer, but his brother, Sir Hugh Warham, acquired an estate at Croydon, which passed to his daughter Agnes, who married Sir Anthony St Leger.
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Later, William Warham took holy orders, held two livings and became Master of the Rolls in 1494.
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William Warham helped to arrange the marriage between Henry's son, Arthur, Prince of Wales, and Catherine of Aragon.
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William Warham went to Scotland with Richard Foxe, then bishop of Durham, in 1497.
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William Warham was partly responsible for several commercial and other treaties with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, Count of Flanders and Regent Duke of Burgundy, on behalf of his son Philip IV of Burgundy.
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William Warham resigned the office of Lord Chancellor in 1515 and was succeeded by Thomas Wolsey, whom he had consecrated as bishop of Lincoln in the previous year.
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William Warham's resignation was possibly because of his dislike of Henry's foreign policy.
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William Warham was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520 and assisted Wolsey as assessor during the secret inquiry into the validity of Henry's marriage with Catherine in 1527.
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William Warham was named as one of the counsellors to assist the queen, but, fearing to incur the king's displeasure and using his favourite phrase ira principis mors est, he gave her very little help and signed the letter to Pope Clement VII that urged the pope to assent to Henry's wish.
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In William Warham's concluding years the archbishop showed rather more independence.
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Against this further compliance with Henry's wishes, William Warham drew up a protest in which he likened the action of Henry VIII to that of Henry II and urged Magna Carta in defence of the liberties of the church.
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William Warham attempted in vain to strike a compromise during the Submission of the Clergy.
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William Warham was buried in the Martyrdom transept of Canterbury Cathedral.
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William Warham was succeeded as archbishop by his rival, Thomas Cranmer.