Treaty of Westminster (1511)

The Treaty of Westminster was signed in November 1511 by Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon. It was a pledge of mutual aid between the two against France during the Valois Dynasty.

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1511 - Henry VIII of England - Ferdinand II of Aragon - France - Valois Dynasty

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Earlier that year, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey had convinced Henry to join his father-in-law Ferdinand in a Holy League that also included Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, the Cantons of Switzerland, and the Republic of Venice.

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Thomas Cardinal Wolsey - Holy League - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor - Cantons of Switzerland - Republic of Venice

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Ferdinand of Aragon left the Holy League in 1514, after having exploited an English expedition to France (led by the Marquis of Dorset) as a distraction, allowing him to seize the region of Navarre, near the Pyrenees (a mountain range to the far north of Spain or far south of France). These abusals of trust led Henry VIII and Thomas Wolsey to grow far more cautious in their foreign policy, leading to the far more inexpensive and effective Treaty of London of October 1518, which cast England as the peace-maker of Europe, rather than a minor war-mongerer.

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