15th century England...King and Church?

Question

Did the church pose any threat to the King of England in the 15th century?
And if so, what sort etc etc?!
thanks :) x

Answer 1

The 15th century kings of england upheld the catholic church and it was not a threat to them. It was not until the reign of King Henry the VIII in the 16th century that the king could see the church as a threat. The king wanted a son and heir and wished to divorce his wife Queen Katherine of Aaragon in order to remarry in persuit of an heir, the pope as head of the church refused under threat of the Spanish King (who was Queen Katherine of Aaragon's father.) So King Henry broke from the church and divorced her and married Anne Boylen. Who after giving him a daughter who would later be Queen Elizabeth, he had her beheaded under suspison of adultury. He then married Lady Jane Seymour who finally gave the king a son, but died shortly after his birth before she could be crowned Queen. Anne of Cleves was the next wife, who the king thought was very homley and the marrige was quickly annulled. Catherine Howard was fifth in the sucsession of 6 wives. This queen was also beheaded on the charges of adultery. Last was Katherine Parr who outlived the king.

Answer 2

The role of the church in Medieval England was largely twofold:

1. Keeping peasants in line - by confirming the pre-ordained natural order of things and ensuring the status-quo, this simply by teaching people their place in the world and suggesting how unhappy God would be should they have the temerity to be unhappy with the lot that God had assigned them. Further, by being one of the main focal points of society and performing a role in alms-giving to those on the brink of starvation, the Church served to help the great unwashed tick over in a period of intense political upheaval.

2. By providing the administrative class (effectively a Civil Service), they were largely responsible for most of the lower tier government in the land, and much of the higher offices as well. The exchequor, the law courts and all those mundane chores that needed educated people were all provided for by the Church.


So, there's a definite 2 way relationship here and in the 15th Centrury, it suited both the King and the Church just fine. 15th Centrury kings generally had politics to worry about and didn't need further headaches by going against the Church, not that they would have seen any reason to anyway. Meanwhile, the Church is happy to have influence and money, particularly when they are starting to worry a little about the great unwashed starting to question their prescribed wisdoms and authority (the first shoots of non-conformism). A happy relationship where the King needed the church to legitimise him and run the country for him, whilst the Church needed Kings that would keep out of their business and keep their hands of the Church's lands.

In terms of threats, what possible threat could the Church pose to an English King? Well, placing interdicts on the King meant that none of his subjects could receive the sacraments, a serious business in medieval times when death was literally around the corner (the plague, leprocy, smallpox, famine and a thousand other nasty things). To meet your end without being absolved of your sins was to never meet your maker, an eternity in hell (or a very very long stay in purgatory). It wasn't only peasants that would be up in arms about this, noblemen who had axes to very sharp axes would revolt if they felt they had an axe to grind. The Church had very pointy teeth indeed and was best kept happy. The influence that the Church had over the next few hundred years worth of history (in England, Scotland and Europe) is testament to that.

Answer 3

It was in the sixteenrth century that Henry V111 (1534) broke with Rome and had Parliament declare himself Head of the Church- The Act of Supremacy. This was done by the King for several reasons :
1. His desire to acquire Church lands and precious jewels in many of the Monasteries.
2. His desire to have Pope Clement V111 annul his marriage to Catherine of Arragon (which the Pope refused to do) so he could marry Ann Boleyn who was pregnant with Henry's child (the future Elizabeth 1). The King feared a woman would not be accepted as Monarch(The Salic Law) . He knew his history- When Henry 1 died in 1135, most of the Nobles rejected his daughter, Matilda. and supported her male cousin, Stephen. This threw England into a 19 year Civil War ending with the compromise- Matilda' son would become monarch on the death of Stephen. This would lead to one of the most famous reigns in English history- Henry 11 (1135-1189).
3. The rise of English Nationalism- WHY SHOULD AN ITALIAN PRINCE (THE POPE) be superior to the English king.

Answer 4

Henry eighth changed the face of religion with the devolution of the church in 1538 - The church "aka the Pope" was a threat in the fact that King Henry could not do what he wished in regards to marriage and obtaining a male heir.

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad03

With the accession of the Lancastrian house the crown allied itself with the church, and the bishops adopted a repressive policy towards the Lollards. By the canon law obstinate heretics were to be burnt by the secular power, and though England had hitherto been almost free from heresy, one or two burnings had taken place in accordance with that law. In 1401 a statute, De heretico comburendo, ordered that heretics convicted in a spiritual court should be committed to the secular arm and publicly burned, and, while this statute was pending, one Sawtre was burned as a relapsed heretic. Henry V was zealous for orthodoxy and the persecution of Lollards increased; in 1414 Sir John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, who had been condemned as a heretic, escaped and made an insurrection; he was taken in 1417 and hanged and burned. Lollardism was connected with an insurrection in 1431; it then ceased to have any political importance, but it kept its hold in certain towns and districts on the lower classes; many Lollards were forced to recant and others suffered martyrdom.

The church was in an unsatisfactory state. As regards the papacy, the crown generally maintained the position taken up in the previous century, but its policy was fitful, and the custom of allowing bishops who were made cardinals to retain their sees strengthened papal influence. The bishops were largely engaged in secular business; there was much plurality, and cathedral and collegiate churches were frequently left to inferior officers whose lives were unclerical. The clergy were numerous and drawn from all classes, and humble birth did not debar a man from attaining the highest positions in the church. Candidates for holy orders were still examined, but clerical education seems to have declined. Preaching was rare, partly from neglectfulness and partly because, in 1401, in order to prevent the spread of heresy, priests were forbidden to preach without a licence. While the marriage of the clergy was checked, irregular and temporary connections were lightly condoned. Discipline generally was lax, and exhortations against field-sports, tavern haunting and other unclerical habits seem to have had little effect. Monasticism had declined. Papal indulgences and relics were hawked about chiefly by friars, though these practices were discountenanced by the bishops.

On the other hand, all education was carried on by the clergy, and religion entered largely into the daily life of the people, into their gild-meetings, church-ales, mystery-plays and holidays, as well as into the great events of family life; baptisms, marriages and deaths. Many stately churches were built in the prevailing Perpendicular style, often by efforts in which all classes shared, and many hamlet chapels supplemented the mother church in scattered parishes. The revival of classical learning scarcely affected the church at large. Greek learning was regarded with suspicion by many churchmen, but the English humanists were orthodox. The movement had little to do with the coming religious conflicts, which indeed killed it, save that it awoke in some learned men like Sir Thomas More a desire for ecclesiastical, though not doctrinal, reform, and led many to study the New Testament of which Erasmus published a Greek text and Latin paraphrases.

This text forms part of the History of the Church of England originally part of the entry ENGLAND, CHURCH OF from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, the content of which lies within the public domain.

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Answer 8

in the beginning, the church and king were one, but eventually, during the protestant reformation, the king wanted to divorce his wives, but the catholic pope said no, so the king started his own church.