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 | | Ferdinands treachery, however, in making a treaty with France roused Henrys wrath, and his angry reproaches fell upon his unfortunate wife; but she took occasion in 1520, during the visit of her nephew Charles V. to England, to urge the policy of gaining his alliance rather than that of France. |
 | | Immediately on his departure, on the 31st of May 1520, she accompanied the king to France, on the celebrated visit to Francis I., called from its splendour the Field of the Cloth of Gold; but in 1522 war was declared against France and the emperor again welcomed to England. |
 | | Finally, however, in July 1529, the case was, according to her wish, and as the result of the treaty of Barcelona and the popes complete surrender to Charles V., revoked by the pope to Rome: a momentous act, which decided Henrys future attitude, and occasioned the downfall of the whole papal authority in England. |
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