Darcy, Thomas Darcy, Lord

Darcy, Thomas Darcy, Lord

▪ English noble
also called  Lord Darcy of Darcy, or Lord Darcy of Temple Hurst  
born c. 1467
died June 30, 1537, London, Eng.

      powerful English nobleman who, disliking the separation of England from papal jurisdiction, was implicated in the rebellion in 1536, in the north, against the ecclesiastical policy of Henry VIII.

      Darcy served in several military and ambassadorial posts for Henry VII and in 1504 (or perhaps 1509) was raised to the peerage. Darcy led English troops to Spain in 1511 to help Ferdinand and Isabella against the Moors, but his forces never left Cádiz; and during Henry VIII's French campaign in 1513 he took part in the siege of Thérouanne. In 1529 he turned against his former friend Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the lord chancellor, by asserting, contrary to the policy of Wolsey and Henry VIII, that the papacy was the only proper judge of matrimonial cases. In 1535 he corresponded with the ambassador of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V about a possible invasion of England by the continental Catholic powers.

      The northern pro-Catholic rebellion, called the Pilgrimage of Grace, began on Oct. 1, 1536, in Lincolnshire. Darcy held the castle of Pontefract, Yorkshire, for the king until October 21, but he surrendered it to the rebel leader Robert Aske sooner than its strength warranted. Although he may have aided in suppressing a renewal of the rising in January 1537, Darcy was still suspected by Henry of treason, probably with justification. At a trial in London he was found guilty and was beheaded.

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