- Richard Pace
Richard Pace (c. 1482 –
June 28 1536 ) was an Englishdiplomat of the Tudor period. He was educated atWinchester College underThomas Langton , and later atPadua , atBologna , and probably at theUniversity of Oxford . In 1509, he accompanied CardinalChristopher Bainbridge ,Archbishop of York , toRome , where he won the esteem of PopeLeo X , who advised King Henry VIII to take him into his service. The English king did so, and in 1515 Pace became his secretary and in 1516 a secretary of state.In 1515,
Cardinal Wolsey sent Pace to urge the Swiss to attackFrance , and in 1519 he went toGermany to discuss with the electors the impending election to the imperial throne. He was madedean of St Paul's in 1519, holding the office until 1536, and was also dean of Exeter and of Salisbury. He was present at theField of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, and in 1521 he went toVenice with the object of winning the support of the republic for Wolsey, who was anxious at this time to become pope.At the end of 1526 he was recalled to England, and he died in 1536. His chief literary work was "De Fructu Qui ex Doctrina Precipitur" (Basel, 1517).
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