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NICHOLAS WEST (1461-1533)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 535 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICHOLAS See also:WEST (1461-1533)  , See also:English See also:bishop and diplomatist, was See also:born at Putney, and educated at See also:Eton and at See also:King's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, of which he became a See also:fellow in 1483 . He was soon ordained and appointed See also:rector of Egglescliffe, See also:Durham, receiving a little later two other livings and becoming See also:chaplain to King See also:Henry VII . In 1509 Henry VIII. appointed him See also:dean of St See also:George's See also:chapel, See also:Windsor, and in 1515 he was elected bishop of See also:Ely . See also:West's See also:long and successful career as a diplomatist began in 1502 through his friendship with See also:Richard See also:Fox, bishop of Durham . In the interests of Henry VII. he visited the See also:German king See also:Maximilian I. and George, See also:duke of See also:Saxony; in 15o6 he negotiated an important commercial treaty with See also:Flanders, and he attempted to arrange marriages between the king's daughter See also:Mary and the future See also:emperor See also:Charles V., and between the king himself and Charles's See also:sister See also:Margaret . By Henry VIII . West was sent many times to See also:Scotland and to See also:France . Occupied mainly during the years 1513 and 1514 with journeys to and from Scotland, he visited See also:Louis XII. of France in the autumn of 1514 and his successor See also:Francis I. in 1515 . In 1515 also he arranged a defensive treaty between See also:England and France, . and he was principally responsible for See also:treaties concluded between the two countries in 1518 and 1525, and at other times . He was trusted and employed on See also:personal matters by See also:Cardinal See also:Wolsey . He died on the 28th of See also:April 1533 . The bishop built two beautiful chapels, one in Putney See also:church and the other in Ely See also:cathedral, where he is buried .

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