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YONGE, JOHN (1467-1516)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 922 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: YAK-ZYM
YONGE, JOHN (1467-1516) , English ecclesiastic and diplomatist, was born at Heyford, Oxfordshire, and educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he became a fellow in 1485. He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connexion with the projected
marriage
  between
Henry
  VII. and Margaret of Savoy. In 15e7 he was made Master of the Rolls, and in the following year was employed in various diplomatic missions. He was one of the ambassadors who arranged the Holy League in 1513, and accompanied
Henry
  VIII. during the ensuing' campaign. In 1514 he was made dean of
York
  in succession to Wolsey, and in 1515 he was one of the commissioners for renewing the peace with Francis I. He died in London on the 25th of April 1516. Yonge was on terms of intimate friendship with Dean Colet, and was a correspondent of
Erasmus
 .


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