how did henry VIII get divourced?

Question

- how henry VIII asked the pope for his marriage to be cancelled, and any complcations that occurred.
- what led to henry's decision to start his own church, and his advisors think of this
- henry was now a protestant name his church. what action did he take to implement into his country and make it the dominant religion.
-herny was once given the title 'defender of the faith'-what was this for and who gave it to him?

-describe any resistance shown to the new religion and how it dealt with.

Answer 1

This sounds like a homework assignment. Can you say "Wikipedia?"

Answer 2

Henry VIII like everyone else at that time thought that the sex of a child depended on the mother. His wife had not given him a son so he wanted to find another wife. Also he fancied Ann Bolyen quite a lot. He had no grounds to get divorce from the roman catholic Church. However he did not become a protestant he formed the church of England which was an English catholic church. The idea of protestantism came from Martin Luther and it was because Henry wrote a book called Defending the Faith against the teachings of Martin Luther that the Pope gave him the title of Defender of the Faith. To establish the new English catholic church his advisers suggested getting rid of the religious establishments loyal or likely to be loyal to the roman church so he dissolved all the monasteries and priories. This had an added benefit in that he was short of money and the wealth of the monasteries came in very handy. Some monasteries supported his split from Rome the first of which was Walsingham but is did them no good as he still wanted the cash and he dissolved them anyway

Answer 3

Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife) had previously been married to his brother, who died. He needed a Papal dispensation to marry is sister-in-law (which was not allowed ar the time) and he received this. When Catherine failed to produce a live male heir, or one that survived more than a few months, Henry approached the then Pope and saying that God was obviously displeased with the decision that he could marry Catherine and this was the reason that the union was cursed, he asked for the Pope to annul the marriage. The Pope, who was under the power of the Spanish throne, refused to do this, so Henry proclaimed that the Church in England could not be overlorded by a foreigner. Hence the Church of England. The liturgy remained the same.
Anne Boleyn cheated on him and was beheaded, his next wife Jane Seymour presented him with his only son, (later Edward VI) but died in childbirth. For diplomatic reasons he then married Anne of Cleves. He hadn't seen her, and Holbein's portrait was flattering to say the least. He could hardly behead a foreign princess, so he divorced her (using his power as self-proclaimed head of the Anglcan Church)
Henry was never a Protestant in the European sense of the word. The Anglican Church remained Catholic and still is today. In fact the last time I attended a Latin Mass it was in an Anglican Church. Apart from the Pope, they can be more Catholic than the Catholics.
Fid. Def (defender of the Faith) was taken on by Henry himself. It's all a bit stupid. After all there had been two Popes at one time, and there was a great deal of nepotism in the Papacy during the Renaissance. The bone of contention between Rome and the Anglican Church is the laying on of hands, which has to do with the conscretion of Bishops and is supposed to be unbroken in the Roman Catholic Church to this day. They maintain that the chain was broken in the Anglican Church when Henry and his daughter Elizabeth started burning bishops. It is not clear whether the Roman chain has been broken or not.

Answer 4

Henry just cut them out of the picture..ha ha ha
the title defender of the faith was given to him by the Pope, writing a book defending the roman church in answer to Martin Luther's complaints which by the way were justifiable the roman church was rotten then as it is now............

Answer 5

As the head of the English church, Henry pronounced himself divorced and the Parliment agreed.

Answer 6

part 3 is wrong way to ask the question. Church of England is closer to Catholic than Lutheran Church, so not Protestant. Not sure if you'll get extra points for telling the teacher she's wrong, though

Answer 7

sorry kiddo not gonna do ya homework for you!! go to wikipedia or about.com and look it up..it really is very interesting with all the beheadings and the poisonings and murders and whatnot...and how he started the church of england on a whim since he didnt lie what the pope told him.....go look it up and find the info for yourself sweetie you'll remember it better for the test that way....also try the history channel's website they've got some interesting stuff on there

Answer 8

I can not add to the long, detailed and knowledgeable answer you have but to sum it up
Henry divorced 2 of his wives. He claimed that his marriage to Katherine of Aragon was invalid because she had been married to his older brother. The legal dispute with the Pope concerned whether the marraige to his brother had been consumated and a passage in the Bible about a man who sleeps with his brother's wife being childless.
He also divorced Anne of Cleves because he found her unnattractive so the marraige was not consumated.

Answer 9

He wanted his marriage to be cancelled for a number of reasons. Then he created a new law, according to which the king was also head of the Church, and church official had to make vows expressing allegiance to him. Anyone who didn't agree to express allegiance to him was executed.

Answer 10

by creating the Church of England