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George Cavendish
English biographer of Cardinal Wolsey · Writers · Lived 1497 to 1562 · aged 65
George Cavendish was an English writer, best known as the biographer of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
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About this person
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.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1497 to 1562 · aged 65
