HIS1B - Essay Plan - Wolsey's Rise to Power
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- Created on: 09-03-13 12:49
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- Why did Wolsey rise to power?
- Personal Skills
- Educated at Oxford - first degree at 15.
- Eloquent and persuasive
- Administrative and organisational talents
- Ability to network
- Networking and Contacts
- Sir Richard Nanfan (recommended him to Henry VII)
- Richard Fox (Wolsey served as his assistant)
- Church Career
- Enabled him to reach positions that led to new opportunities.
- Relationship with Henry VIII
- Henry trusted Wolsey with foreign policy and finance whilst he enjoyed the entertainments of the court
- Impressed Henry with his organisational skills when coordinating the Anglo-French war.
- Personal Skills
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