Editing Thomas Wolsey (section)

==Mistress and issue==
Wolsey lived in a "non-canonical" marriage for around a decade with a woman called [[Joan Larke]] of [[Great Yarmouth|Yarmouth]], Norfolk. The edict that priests, regardless of their functions or the character of their work, should remain celibate had not been wholeheartedly accepted in England.{{sfn|Matusiak|2014|pp=74–}}

Wolsey had two children, both before he was made bishop: a son, [[Thomas Wynter]] (born circa 1510),{{sfn|Fletcher|2009|p=}} and a daughter, Dorothy (born circa 1512),{{sfn|Williams|1976|p=}} both of whom lived to adulthood. The son was sent to live with a family in [[Willesden]] and tutored in his early years by Maurice Birchinshaw. He later married and had children of his own. Dorothy was adopted by John Clansey, and was in due course placed in the convent at [[Shaftesbury Abbey]].

Following the [[dissolution of the monasteries]] under [[Thomas Cromwell]] she was awarded a pension.{{sfn|Lock|2010}}

Following his rapid promotion, Larke became a source of embarrassment to Wolsey, who arranged for her marriage to George Legh of Adlington, in Cheshire, circa 1519. He provided the dowry.{{sfn|Fletcher|2009|p=}} Henry VIII had a mansion built for Legh at [[Cheshunt Great House]].