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BARON THOMAS DARCY DARCY (1467-1537)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARON See also:THOMAS See also:DARCY DARCY (1467-1537)  , See also:English soldier, was ason of See also:Sir See also:William See also:Darcy (d . 1488), and belonged to a See also:family which was seated at Templehurst in See also:Yorkshire . In See also:early See also:life he served, both as a soldier and a diplomatist, in See also:Scotland and on the Scottish See also:borders, where he was See also:captain of See also:Berwick; and in 1505, having been created See also:Baron Darcy, he was made See also:warden of the See also:east See also:marches towards Scotland . In 1511 Darcy led some troops to See also:Spain to help See also:Ferdinand and See also:Isabella against the See also:Moors, but he returned almost at once to See also:England, and was with See also:Henry VIII. on his See also:French See also:campaign two years later . One of the most influential noblemen in the See also:north of England, where he held several important offices, Darcy was also a member of the royal See also:council, dividing his See also:time between See also:state duties in See also:London and a more active life in the north . He showed See also:great zeal in preparing accusations against his former friend, See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey; how-ever, after the cardinal's fall his words and actions caused him to be suspected by Henry VIII . Disliking the separation from See also:Rome, Darcy asserted that matrimonial cases were matters for the decision of the spiritual See also:power, and he was soon communicating with Eustace Chapuys, the See also:ambassador of the See also:emperor See also:Charles V., about an invasion of England in the interests of the See also:Roman Catholics . Detained in London against his will by the See also:king, he was not allowed to return to Yorkshire until See also:late in 1535, and about a See also:year after his arrival in the north the rising known as the See also:Pilgrimage of See also:Grace See also:broke out . For a See also:short time Darcy defended See also:Pontefract See also:Castle against the rebels, but soon he surrendered to them this stronghold, which he could certainly have held a little longer, and was with them at See also:Doncaster, being regarded as one of their leaders . Upon the dispersal of the insurgents Darcy was pardoned, but he pleaded illness when Henry requested him to proceed to London . He may have assisted to suppress the rising which was renewed under Sir See also:Francis See also:Bigod early in 1537, but the king believed, probably with See also:good See also:reason, that he was guilty of fresh treasons, and he was seized and. hurried to London . During his imprisonment he uttered his famous remark about See also:Thomas See also:Cromwell:—" Cromwell, it is See also:thou that See also:art the very See also:original and See also:chief causer of all this See also:rebellion and See also:mischief, .

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trust that or thou See also:die, though thou wouldst procure all the noblemen's heads within the See also:realm to be stricken off, yet shall there one See also:head remain that shall strike off thy head." Tried by his peers, Darcy was found guilty of See also:treason, and was beheaded on the loth of See also:June 1537 . In 1548 his See also:barony was revived in favour of his son See also:George (d . 1557), but it became See also:extinct on the See also:death of George's descendant See also:John in 1635 .

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