1532 > Death of archbishop William Warham, the main sponsor of Erasmus; he seems to have intended resist to the Anglican schism. Primate of England for 30 years, Warham had blessed, in 1509, the marriage of Henry and Catherine. He died in poverty. After May 16th, when as Primate he handed to Henry VIII the clergy's submission, he remembered his predecessor St Thomas Becket (d. in 1170) dult evoked in a document of his last weeks
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