HENRY VIII

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He became know by his quick temper, unfairness and cruelty. He married his brother's widow at the aged of 18th. He ascended to the throne in 1509, after his fathers death.

Henry VIII

He was born on June 28, 1491. The second son of Henry VII. As he was not first in line for heir, he spent his childhood with his mother and being educated by many professionals in many subjects. Childhood was calm in expectation of the crown, which helped give an assurance of majesty and righteousness to his wilful, ebullient character. Once his father dies in 1509, he takes the Throne at age 17 and promises England the joys of spring after the long winter of Henry VII’s reign. That same year Henry VIII had to marry his brother’s Widow in order to keep an alliance between England and Spain. During his ruling, he would keep a festive court, hunting, jousting, writing and playing music. Spending the money aimlessly. He was very careless and generous. He also had a determination to engage in military adventure, for many years but with no success.

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Both Thomas Cranmer, the king’s influential adviser, and Thomas Cromwell developed a persuasive case stating that the England’s king should not be subject to the pope’s jurisdiction. Longing to marry Anne, Henry granted Cranmer the title of Archbishop of Canterbury, after which Cranmer conceded Henry’s divorce from Catherine. Consequently, in June 1533, Anne Boleyn was crowned queen of England in a sumptuous ceremony. A parliament’s passage of the Act of Supremacy in 1534 consolidated the separation from the Catholic Church and made the king the Supreme Head of the Church of England.

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With Cranmer and Cromwell in situations of power, and a Protestant queen by Henry’s side, England entered the period of the renowned “English reformation” including a revolutionary translation of the Bible into English. Cromwell had set his sights on the wealth of England’s monasteries and to deceive them of their assets and valuables. As a result, The Crown proceeded to dissolve England’s monasteries and take control of the Church’s vast property holdings from 1536-40, known as “the greatest redistribution of property in England since the Norman Conquest in 1066.” All of the property reverted to the Crown, and Henry used the windfall to reward his counselors, both Protestant and conservative, for their loyalty.

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• The Queen gave birth sixth times to a stillborn. sixth pregnancies ended much the same as the first. The only truly successful pregnancy was their fifth which blessed the couple with their daughter Mary. Henry grew more and more displeased with his lack of a male heir to the throne and began to find a replacement for his aging wife.
• Henry makes clear his intentions to divorce Katherine, she appeals to Rome; Henry falls in love with Anne Boleyn.
• Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry, the English king declared in 1534 that he alone should be the final authority in matters relating to the English church.
• The king dissolved England’s monasteries to confiscate their wealth and worked to place the Bible in the hands of the people.

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English reformation

• The Queen gave birth sixth times to a stillborn. sixth pregnancies ended much the same as the first. The only truly successful pregnancy was their fifth which blessed the couple with their daughter Mary. Henry grew more and more displeased with his lack of a male heir to the throne and began to find a replacement for his aging wife.
• Henry makes clear his intentions to divorce Katherine, she appeals to Rome; Henry falls in love with Anne Boleyn.
• Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry, the English king declared in 1534 that he alone should be the final authority in matters relating to the English church.
• The king dissolved England’s monasteries to confiscate their wealth and worked to place the Bible in the hands of the people.

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LOREM IPSUM

By the 1520s, Henry had become infatuated with Anne Boleyn, a young woman in his wife’s entourage. The king quickly fell in love with her so he decided to seek a papal annulment that would free him from Catherine to remarry and finally father a legitimate male heir to the throne. The pope refused to grant the annulment, so Anne gave Henry a banned book which criticized the pope, talking about a new Christianity that would swipe away the power of the church and this planted a seed on Henry’s head. In 1533 after separating England form the church in Rome Henry and Anne Boleyn were married, and their daughter Elizabeth was born. Mary was declared illegitimate and Elizabeth named his heir. Anne’s arrogant behavior soon made her unpopular at court. Although Henry lost interest in her and began liaisons with other women, the birth of a son might have saved the marriage. In January 1536 she gave birth to a stillborn male child. On May 2, 1536, Henry had her committed to the Tower of London on a charge of adultery with various men and even incest with her own brother. She was tried by a court of peers, unanimously convicted, and beheaded on May 19. On May 30 Henry married Jane Seymour. That Anne was guilty as charged is unlikely; she was the apparent victim of a temporary court faction.

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In England, the Reformation began with Henry VIII’s quest for a male heir. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon so he could remarry, the English king declared in 1534 that he alone should be the final authority in matters relating to the English church. Henry dissolved England’s monasteries to confiscate their wealth and worked to place the Bible in the hands of the people. Beginning in 1536, every parish was required to have a copy. After Henry’s death, England tilted toward Calvinist-infused Protestantism during Edward VI’s six-year reign and then endured five years of reactionary Catholicism under Mary I. In 1559 Elizabeth I took the throne and, during her 44-year reign, cast the Church of England as a “middle way” between Calvinism and Catholicism, with vernacular worship and a revised Book of Common Prayer.

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