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Nicholas Sanders died of cold and starvation in the hills of southwest Ireland in the spring of 1581. He had escaped into the hills after the invasion fleet was captured and the troops at Smerwick were massacred by the Irish Royal Army under Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.
Nicholas Sanders was born around 1530 at Sander Place near Charlwood in Surrey. His early education began at Hyde Abbey at the age of ten, followed by prestigious studies at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, where he delivered the oration at the reception of Cardinal Pole's visitors in 1557.
Nicholas Sanders wrote De origine et progressu schismatis Anglicani, which served as a cornerstone for subsequent editions and continuations of Catholic histories of the English Reformation. This unfinished work was continued by Edward Rishton and influenced Catholic writers such as Girolamo Pollini, Andrea Sciacca, and François Maucroix.
Nicholas Sanders died of cold and starvation in the hills of southwest Ireland in the spring of 1581. He had escaped into the hills after the invasion fleet was captured and the troops at Smerwick were massacred by the Irish Royal Army under Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.
Nicholas Sanders landed a force of some 600 Spanish and Italian freelance troops with arms for 4,000 rebels and covert Papal support at Smerwick harbour in Ireland. He paraded the papal banner at Dingle before trying to arm local Irish clans and Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, but they never linked up, leaving the invasion fleet vulnerable to capture.