WOTTON, NICHOLAS (c. 14971567)

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WOTTON, NICHOLAS (c. 14971567) , English diplomatist, was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton

Malherbe

MALHERBE, FRANCOIS DE (1555-1628)

, Kent, and a descendant of Nicholas Wotton, lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429. He early became vicar of Boughton

Malherbe

MALHERBE, FRANCOIS DE (1555-1628)

and of Sutton Valence, and later of Ivychurch, Kent; but, desiring a more worldly career, he entered the service of Cuthbert Tunstall, bishop of London. Having helped to draw up the Institution of a Christian Man, Wotton in 1539 went to arrange the

marriage

MARRIAGE

between Henry VIII. and Anne of Cleves and the union of Protestant princes which was to be the complement of this union. He crossed over to England with the royal bride, but, unlike Thomas Cromwell, he did not lose the royal favour when the king repudiated Anne, and in 1541, having already refused the bishopric of

Hereford

HEREFORD

, he became dean of Canterbury and in 1544 dean of

York

. In 1543 he went on diplomatic business to the Nether-lands, and for the next year or two he had much intercourse with the emperor .Charles V. He helped to conclude the treaty of peace between England and France in 1546, and was

resident

RESIDENT

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

in France from 1546 to 1549. Henry VIII. made Wotton an executor of his will and left him 300, and in 1549, under Edward VI., he became a secretary of state, but he only held this post for about a year. In 1550 he was again sent as

envoy

ENVOY (Fr. envoye, " sent ")

to Charles V., and he was

ambassador

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

to France during the reign of Mary, doing valuable work in that capacity. He left France in 1557, but in 1558 he was again in that country, helping to arrange the preliminaries of the treaty of Cateau Cambresis. In 156o he signed the treaty of Edinburgh on behalf of Elizabeth, and he had again visited the Netherlands before his death in London on the 26th of January 1567.
His brother, Sir Edward Wotton (14891551), was made treasurer of Calais in 1540, and was one of those who took part in the overthrow of the protector Somerset. His son, Thomas Wotton (15211587) was the father of Sir Henry Wotton (q.v.).

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