Sir Edward Pomeroy Knight & Richard
at CALAIS in 1520
for The Field of the Cloth of Gold

https://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/venice/vol3/pp79-84      July 1520

Taken from Pomeroy Connections: & the research by Alma LaFrance 

Wolsey’s Embassy to Calais: The chronicle of Calais . in the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII. to the year 1540.
Ed. from mss. in the British museum  by John Gough Nichols 1846

Field of the Cloth of Gold: June 1520, Edward Pomerey is listed.

1520: On xj. of July cardinal Wolsey landed at Calais, accompanied with lords spiritual and temporal as follows:  

Earl of Derby (Stanley) 

Bishop of London

Sir Henry Gilforthe, Knight of the Garter.

Dr Taylor, Master of the Roles.

Barons: 

The Lord Mountegle (Edward Stanley) and Lord Harrewden. (Sir Nicholas Vaux)

Sir Thomas More, knight

Vicsounts and Barons sonns and heirs:

Sir John Dudley, Master Ratclyfe, Master Willowby, Master Parker, Mastar Stowrton.

Knights including: 

Sir Edward Pomeroy , Knight from Devon (page 21) 

Sir John Seemer (Seymour)  from Wiltshire page 22

Among the several Gentleman Ushers:

Richard Pemerey. 

In July of 1520 Edward Pomeroy was with Wolsey at Gravelines. which  lies at the mouth of the river Aa 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Dunkirk.

1521: Page 30:

Gentlemen Ushers: 

 Master Pemerey,  (Richard Pomerey; )

Edward Powley on page 87: "A Wentworth, Hansard and Pomerey appear, in 1527, in the following of Wolsey." 

1527: Page 79

Gentlemen Usher: Master Richard Pomerey

(The use of Master would indicate he was not the eldest son who would  have Esq after his name. so probably a 2nd son which fits with Richard of Totnes 2nd son of Sir Thomas Pomeroy Knight & his wealthy wife Agnes Kelloway - Sir Thomas  was knighted with his brother Baron Richard in 1487 at the coronation of Elizabeth, Princess of York , queen to Henry VII. )

Wolseys Aspiration for the Papacy - 

" Wolsey reigned supreme in England, and his orchestration of the 1518 peace treaty is laudable, but, while Charles ( Duke of Guelders in North Holland )  was in northern Europe, news came that trouble had broken out and that Francis ( the French King) was funding an invasion of Luxembourg by the Frenchman Robert de la Marck. 

Wolsey was able to make another grand appearance as steward and arbitrator, and thus the de facto ruler of England now made his move to become the de jure ruler of Christendom.

Wolsey, as the architect of the 1518 treaty, settled into mediating between Francis and Charles. He convened a conference for which he landed at Calais on 2 August 1521 and with him brought the great seal of England and a clutch of privy councillors.

However, on 12 August 1521, the cardinal broke from his mediation and travelled, with great pomp, to meet Charles at Bruges, taking almost three days to complete the sixty-mile journey.

While all of this was going on, Henry printed his Assertio septem sacramentorum, better known as the Defence of the Seven Sacraments, a much-publicised but ineffective attack on Martin Luther for which the pope awarded Henry the title of Fidei Defensor, which translates as Defender of the Faith. The work was written in support of the Edict of Worms, a decree issued against Luther on 25 May 1521 by Emperor Charles V, which declared that:

 We forbid anyone from this time forward to dare, either by words or by deeds, to receive, defend, sustain, or favour the said Martin Luther. On the contrary, we want him to be apprehended and punished as a notorious heretic, as he deserves, to be brought personally before us, or to be securely guarded until those who have captured him inform us, whereupon we will order the appropriate manner of proceeding against the said Luther. Those who will help in his capture will be rewarded generously for their good work.

Tudor Times  A very interesting read.

Cambridge University  Wolsey's Foreign Policy: The Conferences at Calais and Bruges Reconsidered*

• • • Peter Gwyn   

      • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X0002505X

      • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009

Extract

On 2 August 1521 Wolsey arrived at Calais to preside over a conference the ostensible purpose of which was to put an end to fighting that had broken out earlier in the year, fighting which had increasingly involved French and imperial forces. When, nearly four months later, the conference broke up, the fighting still continued. Clearly Wolsey had been unsuccessful in bringing about peace, but he did not return to England empty-handed.

 On 24 November a treaty had been signed committing England to a declaration of war against France, at least by March 1523. This treaty, and especially the fact that its terms had to all intents and purposes been settled at Wolsey's meeting with the emperor at Bruges less than a fortnight after his arrival at Calais, has led many historians to suspect that Wolsey had never been very serious about his role as peacemaker. Not, however, all. In his biography of Henry VIII, J. J. Scarisbrick has argued most powerfully that at Calais Wolsey worked very hard to reconcile Francis I and the emperor, and, indeed he sees his activities there as crucial evidence that ‘Wolsey's policy was a peace policy and for about fifteen years he struggled to make it work’.

 The main purpose of this article will be to argue that, at least as far as the events of 1521 are concerned, this thesis cannot be sustained.  Instead, it will be shown that Wolsey's main aim in 1521 was to bring about the alliance with the emperor.   A considerable list of sources is listed.