Richard Foxe

Richard Fox ( * 1446-1448 near Grantham, Lincolnshire, † October 5, 1528 in Winchester, Hampshire ) was an English humanist, statesman and prelate. He was Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham and Winchester. Furthermore, there was Fox 1487-1516 Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College.

About the first half of the life of Richard Fox There is no reliable historical sources. In 1484 he was to study law in Paris and stayed in contact with Henry Tudor, the opponent Richard III. to the English throne. After Tudor Wars of the Roses was able to win and was crowned Henry VII, the rise of Richard Fox began. After the takeover of Henry VII he was until 1487 the secretary, then his Lord Privy Seal and advice. 1487 appointed the king him as Bishop of Exeter and five years later became Bishop of Bath and Wells. However, both items he joined because of his political responsibilities to never.

In 1491 he named would later become King Henry VIII. A year later, Fox was instrumental in Treaty of Etaples responsible. For his efforts for peace with Scotland Richard Fox was rewarded with the dioceses of Durham ( 1497 ) and Winchester (1501 ). In 1500 he became Chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1507 and Master of Pembroke College. Also, under Henry VIII, who in 1508 ascended the English throne, Fox's influence remained unbroken. Only with the rise of Thomas Wolsey, things changed. 1516, he was in protest against the foreign policy of Wolsey's back office as Lord Privy Seal and devoted himself to his duties as bishop. In the same year he founded the Corpus Christi College, Oxford.