biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1420–1500)
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| biography:
| Statesman and cardinal, probably born in Milborne St Andrew, Dorset, S England, UK. He practised as a lawyer, and strongly supported Henry VI, but after the Battle of Tewkesbury made his peace with Edward IV, and became Master of the Rolls (1473) and Bishop of Ely (1479). Richard III imprisoned him in 1483, but he escaped, and after the accession of Henry VII was made Archbishop of Canterbury (1486), Chancellor (1487), and a cardinal (1493). |
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