He had the patronage of the leading cultural figure of Henry VII's court, the king's mother Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509).
[3] He was granted a chaplaincy of the Free Chapel at Snodhill Castle near Dorstone, a post which was given away a year later to Robert Cowper, another Gentleman.
At the beginning of his reign in 1509, Henry VIII granted Fayrfax the annuity of a farm in Hampshire and later made him a 'Poor Knight of Windsor' (with a life-time award of twelve pennies a day) on 10 September 1514.
[6] From 1516, for four consecutive years, he presented the king with collections of his compositions and received financial rewards.
[6] In 1520 he led the Chapel Royal in the state visit to France of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.