2nd+Period+-+Thomas+More

=2nd Period - Thomas More=

By:Kayla E.

Date of birth:February 7,1478

Location of birth:London,England in Milk Street



Parent's names:John More was his father

Family background:More is the son of a judge.In 1505 Thomas married Jane Colt,his first wife.Jane was a daughter of a essex.She w as a bore.Jane had three of his children two daughters and one son.Jane's death year was 1511.A month after she died he married again.The wife's name was Alice Middleton,she was a widow.

Date of death:July 6,1535

Location of death/grave:Tower Hill

Education:Oxford university is were he had studied.He studied law.He studied at Oxford for two years.After studying law at Oxford he spent time as a Carthusian monk for four years.He was also educated at St.Anthony's.In the month of February and the year 1496 he was admitted to Licoln's Inn.Licoln's Inn is one of four legal societies.He also went to a Cambridge in 1525,he was the high steward.

Career:He was a English schooler.Another job lawyer,also a statesman.He had became a knight in 1521.More had refused one of king Henry's monarch.He was the first lawyer to post.The first master piece he made was between 1513 and 1518.It was called More's History Of King Richard iii.



Legacy:We remember Sir Thomas More by his famous book Utopia.The book Utopia decribes on imaginary country with a ideal society.More was a shining example of obedient to catholics.The scholarship he had was re-owned thoughout Europe.He was placed among the greatest political philosophers.The Utopia was on December 1516 in Leuven.September 1510 he was one of the under sheiffs he end on July 1518.

Additional/Interesting information:Thomas More was a royal counselor for King Henry the viii.He had also wrote alot of works in Latin.On the date of July 6,the year 1535 he had been beheaded at Tower Hill in the morning before nine.In 1497 Sir Thomas More meets Erasmas,his friend.Before death had come he was in prison.Thomas's daughter had rescured his head after beheaded.1504 is the date he had entered Parliament.He had devoted to write againsit Hersey for a year.

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