Author: Richard Foxe
Richard Foxe (sometimes Richard Fox) was an English churchman
and politician.
He was born in Ropesley near Grantham, Lincolnshire about
1448. In 1484 he was taken into the service of Henry Tudor,
King of England from 1485 till 1509. He was elected Bishop
of Exeter on January 29, 1487 and successively also Bishop
of Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester. As a politician
he was Lord Privy Seal (minister to the Crown). In 1487 he
negotiated a treaty with King James III of Scotland; in 1492
he helped conclude the Peace of Etaples, and in 1493 he was
chief commissioner in the negotiations for the famous commercial
agreement with the Netherlands. In 1498-1499 he completed
the negotiations for that treaty of marriage between the Scottish
king and Henry's daughter Margaret that ultimately led to
the union of the two crowns in 1603 and of the two kingdoms
in 1707. In 1500 he was elected chancellor of Cambridge University
and in 1507 master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. The crown
of Foxe's career was his foundation of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, which he established in 1515-1516. Richard Foxe died
on October 5, 1528.
Richard Foxe
(1448 - 1528)
