ABSTRACT
The first was a mission in 1502 to Cologne and Antwerp, to persuade Maximilian, King of the Romans and co-ruler of the Holy Roman empire, not to support the exiled yorkist pretender edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, in any attempt he might make to win the english throne. The aftermath of the Wars of the Roses clearly still bedeviled english foreign policy. This was successful: Maximilian signed a treaty to that effect.
