John Yonge English

England

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 ecclesiastic and diplomat

Diplomat

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ist, was born at Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire

Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire

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, and educated at Winchester

Winchester College

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 and New College, Oxford

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, where he became a fellow in 1485. Probably the son of John Yonge, Lord Mayor of London (1466). He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries

Low Countries

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 in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII

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 and Margaret of Savoy

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In 1507 he was made Master of the Rolls

Master of the Rolls

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, and in the following year was employed in various diplomatic missions. He was one of the ambassadors who arranged the Holy League

War of the League of Cambrai

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 in 1513, and accompanied Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

 during the ensuing campaign.

In 1514 he was made dean of York

Dean of York

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 in succession to Wolsey, and in 1515 he was one of the commissioners for renewing the peace with Francis I

Francis I of France

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. He died in London on the 25th of April 1516. Yonge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dean Colet

John Colet

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, and was a correspondent of Erasmus. A statue of him stands in the former Rolls Chapel in The Maughan Library

The Maughan Library

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, King's College London

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