Salvador Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, has the following extraordinary story about Cardinal de Tournon. Retrieved: 2016-04-21: "The cardinal was sent to Rome to avoid the threat of excommunication against the French king; and then from Rome he went to England to try to convince King Henry VIII Tudor of England not to break with the pope; at that time, Pope Clement VII, influenced by the emperor, excommunicated King Henry". Tournon never went to England, however, and Henry VIII was only contingently excommunicated on 11 July 1533, if he did not put aside Anne Boleyn by October (of 1534). In fact, Cardinal de Tournon had intervened with the pope in April to get a delay in the implementation of the threat of excommunication: Rawdon Brown, Calendar IV, p. 397, no. 877. Clement died on 25 September 1534, without having pronounced a definitive sentence. It was Paul III who excommunicated Henry VIII.
