# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-cavendish
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:44:57.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-cavendish"
name: "George Cavendish"
slug: "george-cavendish"
description: "George Cavendish was an English writer, best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. His Thomas Wolsey, Late Cardinall, his Lyffe and Deathe is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as the \"most important single contemporary source for Wolsey's life\" which also offers a \"detailed picture of early sixteenth-century court life and of political events in the 1520s, particularly the divorce proceedings against Catherine of Aragon."
tagline: "English biographer of Cardinal Wolsey"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1497"
deathDate: "1562"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.02538
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cavendish"
    title: "George Cavendish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "جورج كافنديش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93%CE%B5%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82_%CE%9A%CE%AC%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%B9%CF%82_(%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CE%B3%CF%81%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AD%CE%B1%CF%82)"
    title: "Γεώργιος Κάβεντις (συγγραφέας)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cavendish_(writer)"
    title: "George Cavendish (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cavendish_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "George Cavendish (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cavendish"
    title: "George Cavendish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgius_Cavendish"
    title: "Georgius Cavendish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cavendish"
    title: "George Cavendish"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1226237"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump