Thomas Wolsey
Thomas Wolsey (c. 1473–1530) was Henry VIII's chief minister and a cardinal. Son of an Ipswich butcher, he rose to become Archbishop of York in 1514, then cardinal and Lord Chancellor in 1515. As papal legate he directed policy and organised the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520.
He founded Cardinal College, but after failing to secure the king's annulment from Catherine of Aragon he fell from power in 1529, and died at Leicester Abbey on 29 November 1530 on his way to London to face a treason charge.