Cardinal Thomas Wolsey became chancellor in 1515 and fell from power in 1529 when he converted to the wrong side of Henry VIII’s favour when he was unable to acquire the permission for Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Between this time Henry and Wolsey had many foreign affairs, such affairs were largely with France or Spain, the two biggest powers in Europe at this time.

October 1518 saw the Treaty of London, which was the first real chance that Wolsey could shine on an international scale. This treaty gathered all major European leaders and twenty lesser princes together in London to make a pact stating that if one of the countries involved in the treaty were to be invaded by another country, then the rest of the parties included in the treaty would help the country that had been invaded. Wolsey was put in charge of organising this congregation. This was a huge opportunity for Wolsey as he was finally organising something very important. This meeting made Henry feel as if he was at the very centre of Europe’s state of affairs and this was just what Henry sought after. Although Henry definitely did want to feel as imp

After the treaty with Charles, Wolsey returned to Calais to continue his efforts to make a peace treaty between the countries. It is blatant that Wolsey doesn’t want war. He knows that it will cost the country too much. However France could see through Wolsey, straight to Henry’s desire for war, peace talks subsequently deteriorated. England declared war on France in June 1522.

In both the Treaty of London and the treaty made with France, Wolsey was obviously the man doing the labouring of such projects but the treaties weren’t entirely Wolsey’s ideas. Henry would tell Wolsey what to do and what he was allowed to do and Wolsey would do it.

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