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He was born at Dursley in Gloucestershire, and may have been related to Richard Fox. He was educated at Eton College and at King's College, Cambridge. After graduating in 1520, he was made secretary to Cardinal Wolsey in 1527. In 1528 he was sent with Bishop Stephen Gardiner to RomeRome ( Italian and Latin Roma is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50'N, 12°15'E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat of the Roman to obtain from Pope Clement VIIFor the antipope (1378-1394) see Antipope Clement VII. Clement VII ne Giulio di Giuliano de' Medici ( 1478 September 25, 1534) was pope from 1523 to 1534. This pope was an illegitimate son of Giuliano de' Medici, who was assassinated in the Pazzi Conspira a decretal commission for the trial and decision of the case between King Henry VIII of EnglandHans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII ( 28 June 1491 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. He is and his first wife, Catherine of AragonCatherine of Aragon (in Spanish Catalina de Aragon , ( December 16, 1485 January 7, 1536) was Henry VIII of England's first wife. Henry annulled his marriage to her after she had born him a girl, later Mary I. Biography Born in Alcala de Henares, she was.

On his return Fox was elected provostProvost (through O. prevost mod. prevot Lat. pracpositus set over, from praeponere to place in front), a title attached to various ecclesiastical and secular offices. Origins of the title and present clerical uses In ecclesiastical usage the word praeposi of King's College, and in August 1529Events April 22 Treaty of Saragossa divides the western hemisphere between Spain and Portugal that the dividing line should lay 297. 5 leagues west of the Moluccas. Spain gets monetary compensation in return for giving Portugal more territory that was in was the means of conveying to the king Thomas CranmerThomas Cranmer ( July 2, 1489 March 21, 1556) was the Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of the English kings Henry VIII and Edward VI. Born in 1489 at Nottingham, Cranmer was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and became a priest following the's historic advice that he should apply to the universities of Europe rather than to the pope. This introduction led eventually to Cranmer's promotion over Fox's head to the archbishopric of CanterburyThe Archbishop of Canterbury is a bishop of the Church of England. His see is the Diocese of Canterbury and his episcopal chair ('cathedra') is at Canterbury Cathedral. He is the most senior bishop of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Co. After a brief mission to Paris in October 1529, Fox in January 1530 befriended Hugh Latimer at Cambridge and took an active part in persuading the English universities to decide in the king's favour. He was sent to employ similar methods of persuasion at the French universities in 1530- 1531, and was also engaged in negotiating a closer league between England and France. In April 1533 he was prolocutor of convocation when it decided against the validity of Henry's marriage with Catherine, and in 1534 published his treatise De vera differentia regiae potestatis et ecclesiae (second ed. 1538, English transl 1548).

Various ecclesiastical preferments were now granted him, including the archdeaconry of Leicester (1531), the deanery of Salisbury (1533) and the bishopric of Hereford (1535). In 1535- 1536 he was sent to Germany to discuss the basis of a political and theological understanding with the Lutheran princes and divines, and had several interviews with Martin Luther, who could not be persuaded of the justice of Henry VIII's divorce. The principal result of the mission was the Wittenberg articles of 1536, which had no slight influence on the English Ten Articles of the same year. In 1536, Bucer dedicated to him his Commentaries on the Gospels, and Fox's Protestantism was also illustrated by his patronage of Alexander Ales, whom he defended before Convocation.

Fox is credited with the authorship of several proverbial sayings, such as "the surest way to peace is a constant preparedness for war" and "time and I will challenge any two in the world." The former at any rate is only a variation of the Latin si vis pacem, para bellum, and probably the latter is not more original in Fox than in Philip II of Spain, to whom it is usually ascribed. Fox was buried in the church of St Mary Mounthaw , London. He was the most Lutheran of Henry VIII's bishops, and was largely responsible for the Ten Articles of 1536.