Henry VII Tudor Appointments Timeline

Celebrations to mark the coronation of King Henry VII began.

Henry Tudor was crowned King Henry VII at Westminster Abbey.

The celebrations to mark Henry VII’s coronation ended. The celebrations were particularly lavish because Henry wanted to outshine the coronation of Richard III held two years earlier.

John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury and Henry’s most trusted adviser, became Lord Chancellor.

Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen consort of England and Wales.

Prince Arthur was made a Knight of the Bath and created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester.

Thomas More, aged 12 years, became a page in Archbishop Morton’s household.

Richard Empson representing Northamptonshire in parliament, became Speaker of the Commons.

Prince Henry was made a Knight of the Bath.

Henry VII’s second son, Prince Henry, was created Constable of Dover Castle and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Henry VII chose to confer these, and other titles, on his children rather than on noblemen as was usual because he was worried that if too many noblemen held positions of power they may rebel against him.

Prince Henry was created Earl Marshall of England.

William Warham was appointed Master of the Rolls. The Master of the Rolls is the second senior judge and member of the Privy Council.

Prince Henry was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His deputy was Sir Edward Poynings.

Prince Henry was created Duke of York

Lady Margaret Beaufort, the King’s mother, appointed John Fisher, Master of the Michaelhouse Cambridge, to be her confessor.

Prince Henry was made a Knight of the Garter

Robert Drury, representing Sussex in Parliament, was elected Speaker of the Commons.

Henry Deane became the Lord Deputy of Ireland.

Gerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, was made Lord Deputy of Ireland.

Edmund Dudley was appointed Under-Sheriff of London.

Thomas Englefield, representing Berkshire in Parliament, became Speaker of the Commons.

Thomas Ruthall became Henry VII’s secretary.

Thomas Wolsey became senior bursar of Magdalen college, Oxford.

Thomas Wolsey was asked to resign his position as Bursar of Magdalen College, Oxford because he had spent huge amounts of the college’s money on building the Tower of Magdalen.

Thomas More qualified as a barrister. He set up his own practice. He also earned extra money by teaching law at Furnivals Inn.

Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was appointed Treasurer of England.

William Barnes was appointed Master of the Rolls.

Gruffydd ap Rhys, son of Rhys ap Thomas, was appointed Catherine of Aragon’s gentleman usher.

The Spanish ambassador Don Pedro Ayala was recalled to Spain. It is likely that this action was taken following complaints about him by Catherine’s duenna, Dona Elvira. De Puebla was instructed to take over negotiations for the marriage of Catherine to Prince Henry.

Thomas Wolsey, who had been Chaplain to Henry Deane, was appointed Chaplain to the Governor of Calais, Sir Richard Nanfan.

Thomas More was elected to parliament as a burgess representing London.

William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, was appointed Chancellor.

Edmund Dudley, representing Staffordshire in Parliament, became Speaker of the Commons.

Prince Henry was formally created Prince of Wales.

John Colet was appointed Dean of St Paul’s Cathedral. Colet believed in the simplicity of Christianity. He believed that the epistles were genuine letters and that the story of the creation had been invented by Moses to explain man’s creation to his people.

Catherine of Aragon’s duenna was dismissed after it was revealed that she had been working to further her own interests rather than those of Catherine.

Sir Richard Nanfan retired as Governor of Calais. He recommended his chaplain, Thomas Wolsey, to the King.

Wolsey was appointed chaplain to Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester, who was the King’s Lord Privy Seal.

Father Fray Diego Fernandez, a member of the Observant Franciscan Monks, arrived in England. He had been appointed Catherine of Aragon’s new confessor.

Ferdinand appointed Catherine as Spanish Ambassador until a replacement for de Puebla, who was sick, could be found. Catherine found she was treated with much more respect as Ambassador.

Christopher Bainbridge was appointed Archbishop of York.

John Yonge was appointed Master of the Rolls.

Thomas Wolsey was appointed Dean of Lincoln Cathedral.

Thomas Wolsey was appointed Prebendary of Lincoln.

Thomas Wolsey was appointed Almoner to the King.

Richard Pace was appointed secretary to Cardinal Bainbridge who had recently taken up the position of English ambassador in Rome.

Lord Thomas Dacre was appointed Warden of the West March. His duties included organising government missions to the court of King James IV and keeping the English government informed of the situation in Scotland.