- John Yonge
John Yonge (c. 1465 –
April 25 ,1516 ), English ecclesiastic anddiplomat ist, was born at Heyford,Oxfordshire , and educated at Winchester andNew College, Oxford , 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 theLow Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII andMargaret of Savoy .In 1507 he was made
Master of the Rolls , and in the following year was employed in various diplomatic missions. He was one of the ambassadors who arranged the Holy League in 1513, and accompanied Henry VIII during the ensuing campaign.In 1514 he was made
dean of York in succession to Wolsey, and in 1515 he was one of the commissioners for renewing the peace with Francis I. He died in London on the 25th of April 1516. Yonge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dean Colet, and was a correspondent ofErasmus . A statue of him stands in the former Rolls Chapel inThe Maughan Library ,King's College London .References
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NAME= Yonge, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=English clergyman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH=c. 1465
PLACE OF BIRTH=Heyford,Oxfordshire
DATE OF DEATH=25 April 1516
PLACE OF DEATH=London
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