Information AboutJohn Yonge |
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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 the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret 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 of Erasmus . |