How do the actions that Henry VIII took towards his wives affecting modern society?

Question

I have a research paper due really soon, so please help!

Answer 1

For starters the creation of a New religion
Persecution of catholics in the UK...which in turn also means that other religions were chased after.

Ergo, Mayflower, immigration towards the USA. "Creation" of a nation on the basis of Freedom of Religion. Which in turns is the basis for all the freedoms in the US.

Let me know what you get on your paper!

Answer 2

Up until Henry VIII's daughters came to the throne, England had never had a Queen regnant. The last time it should have happened was with Matilda, the mother of Henry II, but her cousin Stephen of Blois was chosen to be King instead.

Henry wanted a son and Katherine of Aragon couldn't give him one. He thought this was God's punishment for marrying his brother's widow and requested an annulment from Rome. Under normal circumstances, this would have been granted but the Pope was strongly influenced by Spain and refused the annulment. Henry then took the Pope out of the equation and had his marriage annulled by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

His second marriage to Anne Boleyn also failed to produce a son so she was executed for treason for having at least one adulterous affair. The charges were probably false. Jane Seymour bore him a son but died in the process. Anne of Cleves found little favour with the King and the marriage was annulled probably without being consummated. Anne stayed in the English court and was popular with the royal children and a good friend to Henry. Catherine Howard was a young trollop who was certainly guilty of adultery and Katherine Parr looked after Henry til he died. All three of Henry's legitimate children became monarchs.

Although Henry had six wives and many mistresses, his sole purpose in marrying was to produce an heir which to him was a son. More than one son would have ensured the succession and the House of Tudor which is why he continued after the death of Jane Seymour. Adultery by the Queen was treason as the King had to be sure that any son born was his.

These days the requirements for a son are not as heavy as they were then. The Church of England at that stage was really just Catholicism without the Pope and there are parts of the church like that today. It was the later influence of other Reformation preachers like Wesley, Luther and Calvin that led to the development of Puritanism.

Answer 3

Henry VIII did a lot of things that affected modern society.

He was the first ruler of both the York and Lancaster families, the families that fought in the war of the rose. York from his mother, Lancaster from his father.

He underminded the authority of the Pope and made himself the head of a religion.

He was the first member of royalty to have a public divorce, multiple times.

He also married his older brother's widow, very frowned upon, just because he wanted to.

Until Jane (his niece) took the throne there had never been a woman to inherit the throne in her own right.

His daughter Mary was "Bloody Mary", named so because she executed protestants.

Most likely because of his past with women and marriage, when his daughter Elizabeth came to the throne and even before then, she refused to marry, and often used herself as a bargaining chip so to speak.

There are more things that I can't think of right now, but I hope that helps.

Answer 4

Well up to that point the little people of england had only one wife only one way of life, the king wanted a son to take over from him, so to get that he married and got rid of the last wife in order todo so..

as time went on people noble people that is carried on from the king the 8th an did as he did ie numbers of wives ........

but you may know all this..

he was a dirty old fart who wanted more and as time went on so did all the others...

Answer 5

Lacy 1st earl baldwin of bewdley Smith notes, "a great deal of historic previous would be gleamed from various novels and biographies dealing with Henry's many better halves, who would be smartly recalled to concepts via reciting here: 'Divorced, beheaded, died; Divorced, beheaded, survived' "(p. 121). After Henry made a injury with Rome, he hastily rid himself of better halves he did no longer prefer and had new applicants queued up for queen would desire to the present consort tutor lacking. case in point, Anne Boleyn became into Katherine of Aragon's woman-in-waiting, and Jane Seymour became into Anne's, so his strikes have been neither basically nor hassle-free, yet only expedient. even nonetheless, he wasn't without feeling. in spite of each and every thing, he sent for a swordsman from France to behead Anne Boleyn, so she does no longer go through long.

Answer 6

Beheading in the UK and the USA is against the law. So many people both commoners and kings just get divorces. Less blood involved, but it does keep the lawyers in Lamborghini's

Answer 7

It gave new meaning with off with their heads