TY - JOUR
T1 - Between king and pope
T2 - Thomas Wolsey and the Knight mission
AU - Sharkey, J.
PY - 2011/5/1
Y1 - 2011/5/1
N2 - The early attempts to secure Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon saw a conflict in approach between the king and Thomas Wolsey, cardinal of York. The king went behind his minister's back and dispatched his own secretary, William Knight, to Rome, seeking a direct channel of communication with Clement VII in order to secure papal permission to marry Anne Boleyn. Wolsey interpreted the king's actions not only as a direct threat to his own connections with the Roman curia as legate a latere, but also as potentially disastrous for the divorce campaign. Knight's ultimate failure enabled Wolsey to regain control of the Great Matter and made abundantly clear to him the fragility of his own position as intermediary between king and pope.
AB - The early attempts to secure Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon saw a conflict in approach between the king and Thomas Wolsey, cardinal of York. The king went behind his minister's back and dispatched his own secretary, William Knight, to Rome, seeking a direct channel of communication with Clement VII in order to secure papal permission to marry Anne Boleyn. Wolsey interpreted the king's actions not only as a direct threat to his own connections with the Roman curia as legate a latere, but also as potentially disastrous for the divorce campaign. Knight's ultimate failure enabled Wolsey to regain control of the Great Matter and made abundantly clear to him the fragility of his own position as intermediary between king and pope.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953315997&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00545.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1468-2281.2010.00545.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79953315997
VL - 84
SP - 236
EP - 248
JO - Historical Research
JF - Historical Research
SN - 0950-3471
IS - 224
ER -