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How pragmatic. He formed his own church so he could get a divorce all his wives. Its good to be king.

2007-06-23 06:24:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I think it is a shame that most of the answers seem to rehash the year eight story of 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced beheaded, survived'. Henry VIII had a 40 year reign that included much more than just his marriage exploits. Henry, through acts of parliament called the act in restraint of appeals, the acts of supremacy and the act of first fruits and tenths cut any administrative, judicial, financial and doctrinal links with the papacy. The English church then became a Catholic territorial church whereby the Archbishop of Canterbury was the supreme cleric and Henry was the supreme head of the Church of England. A common misconception is that he created the protestant Anglican church, yet in reality he remained a catholic and the church of England remained essentially Catholic. The early 1540s in particular were a period in which Henry was reversing or restricting any so called protestant reforms he had made, e.g. restricting the reading of the bible to gentlemen (no-one below that class or any women) The dissolution of the monasteries is probably the action he took that most affected traditional religion in England, even committed catholics refused to give the land back when Mary I restored Catholicism. as such he created a political class who were financially invested in the reformation. However Henry's reign was also one of constitutional innovation, military action and cultural achievement.

2007-06-25 05:58:19 · answer #2 · answered by regina flange 1 · 0 0

The Act of Supremacy stated that the King,not the Pope, was " the Supreme Head on earth, under God, of the Church of England " All the clergy were made to swear to this oath, failure meant certain death.He then sent Thomas Cromwell , the dreaded "Vicar General "on a mission to sort out the Monasteries, relieve them of Papery & Gold. The Reformation had thus started.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer,
declared that the marriage to Catherine of Aragon was
illegal, & Henry announced that he had already married
Anne Boleyn in secret.

2007-06-23 07:06:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

it is not real that he purely broke from the Catholic Church so he might desire to marry Anne Boleyn. this may well be a romanticized version of the real tale. The followers of Luther had already laid the muse, exhibiting you may desire to break from the Pope devoid of on the instant bursting into flames, and positively, Henry grow to be initially particularly frightened of being excommunicated. He did it, as yet another responder suggested, to grow to be the ideally suited Head of the Church of britain and the optimum authority in all of britain, decrease than God purely. He could additionally not might desire to pay economic tribute to the Pope. video clips and television teach him in love with Anne Boleyn because of the fact it sells. yet extra wisely, he had mistresses for the period of his marriage to her, and his considerable motivation in his divorce from Catherine of Aragon grow to be his terror that he could die devoid of having had a son to rule after him. Henry VII had taken the throne over from the Yorks, making it extremely substantial that Henry VIII guard his legacy. examine _The Six different halves of Henry VIII_ by utilizing Antonia Fraser, or particularly a lot the different scholarly artwork on non-fiction on the situation.

2016-09-28 08:42:57 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Henry Vlll then declared his marriage to Katherine of Aragon null and void,thus making his daughter Mary a bastard,sent her into exile and remained quite cruel to her throughout her remaining years.
He then went ahead and married Anne Bolyne,with whom he had another daughter ,Elizabeth.
She was found guilty of treason and beheaded,thus making Elizabeth a bastard also.
He then married Jane Seymore,with whom he had a son , Edward .
She died a few days after the birth ,Henry then married Anne of Cleves,but she wasn't attractive enough for henryso he sent her away with a rather large sum of money etc and moved onto the next wife.
This wife was a young girl of 15 ,called Katherine Howard.She slept around with a few lords ,was caught out and beheaded for treason.
Henry then married his final wife before he died,Her name was Katherine Parr. She was loyal to him until he died,although she was very much a protestant,writing her own books etc,and he nearly had her arrested once or twice for it.He did actually seem to care for her more than his previous wives.

2007-06-23 22:56:36 · answer #5 · answered by Netty13 2 · 0 0

After he cut all his affiliation with the Church of Rome, Henry VIII started his "own" church denomination, (which is known as the Church of England) he then got married to anne boleyn, divorced her, and married a whole bunch of other wives, (six, to be exact) who he either divorced or beheaded, on the grounds of treason, then he got plaugued by a string of troubling ailments and he fially died at age 58.

-so much for a man who wanted EVERYTHING his own way!

2007-06-23 06:50:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

After they refused an annulment to Katherine of Aragon he declared himself the church and created the church of England and once he did that he sent Katherine into exile and married Anne Boleyn.

2007-06-23 06:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by Petra 5 · 0 0

He tried to reform its theology into something he considered a truer reflection of right thinking Christianity. He outlawed much of the mediaeval churches abused material piety (saint worship, pilgrimages, relics and images), re-established magisterial controls, trimmed the sacraments down to the bible-supported two (baptism and eucharist), getting rid of monasticism (a dying institution in the early 16th) and, generally, trying to balance English tradition with useful continental expressions.

2007-06-23 08:00:12 · answer #8 · answered by andrewchibi 5 · 1 0

He didn't take the church away. When they quit granting him annulments, he created his own church. (the Church of England, or the Anglicans)

2007-06-23 06:20:19 · answer #9 · answered by MotherNature 5 · 0 0

He created the "Anglican Church"

2007-06-23 10:26:28 · answer #10 · answered by tu-tu 2 · 0 0

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