Waslove the most important reason why Henry VIII made the break with rome?

Question

please help me its for an essay for a teacher called Miss Parker(perfect parker!) help me plkz an plz give detailed answers

Answer 1

Henry desperately wanted a male heir. Catherine of Aragon gave birth to several children that didn't survive and in his 30s Henry realised he had to have a new wife to preserve the Tudor dynasty, hence the break with Rome to allow a divorce from Catherine. Apart from that he was probably a randy b*****d!

Answer 2

I should think it was almost certainly NOT love that made Henry break with Rome. He desperately needed a male heir as his only legitimate surviving child was a girl - Mary. His wife was too old to have more children and she'd had a history of miscarriages and what we would now call cot death so he convinced himself she was cursed. He had a healthy illigitimate son by his mistress Bessie (Elizabeth) Blount, called Henry Fitzroy (Fitzroy meaning son of the king) so he was sure it wasn't a problem with his genes.

Anne Boleyn was pretty, spirited, flirty and fun but most of all she was young and therefore more likely to give him lots of healthy male heirs. She also came from a noble family so he couldn't see why she wouldn't be seen as a suitable Queen.

Rome of course did not allow divorce under any circumstances and Henry was a devout Catholic. He spent many years trawling through the Bible with his advisors to find justifiable reasons why he should be given a special dispensation to divorce his wife. When he realised divorce was out of the question he tried to have the marriage annulled saying that the Bible teaches that a man should not marry his brother's widow - which of course is exactly what Catherine of Aragon was. She maintained she was 'intact' on her marriage to Henry so her marriage to Arthur was unconsumated and therefore null and void so her marriage to Henry was legally and morally sound. Henry argued otherwise of course.

In the end Henry had no alternative but to create his own church and to put himself forward as the Head of that church - a system still in place today as our Queen is Head of the Church of England. He was after all irreproachable as monarch and his motives could not be questioned.

It's quite clear what Henry's main motivation was. He wanted a healthy male heir at any cost, by hook or by crook.

Hope this helps

Answer 3

The breakup between Rome and England started in the reign of Henry VIII and is therefore sometimes called the Henrician Reformation. Henry didn’t really establish new ideas about religion, he just wanted England’s church independent.

In 1521, he defended the Papacy from Martin Luther's claims of heresy in a book he wrote that was called The Defence of the Seven Sacraments.

The group that was mainly threatened by Henry was the Roman Catholic Church because Henry wanted to separate from and establish England’s own church.

Henry’s actions impacted Europe in that England established its own church and separated from the Roman Catholic church, this gave England’s church its own power and influenced other states to establish their own churches.

Answer 4

I think it was power. Who was the most powerful man who had to be obeyed? Henry VIII King of England or The Pope elected representative of The Church.

Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon could not sire a son, and therefore an heir to the throne. Henry VIII approached the Pope and requested a divorce. The Pope refused, decreeing that Divorce was illegal, un-christian etc. Henry VIII insisted that he was the King of England and had to be obeyed. The Pope maintained that he was the Elected representative of God on Earth and that he had to be obeyed. So, impasse. Henry VIII therefore excommunicated himself from Rome and became head of The Anglican Church/ Church of England. His divorce with Katherine of Aragon was allowed (by himself) his marriage with Anne Boleyn begat Elizabeth I, but no male heir. Anne Boleyn was beheaded. His next wife Katherine Seymour died giving birth to Edward Henry's much awaited heir.His marriage with Anne of Cleves was annulled for lack of a child. Katherine Howard was beheaded. (I think that she gave birth to Mary Queen of Scots but I'm not sure) Katherine Parr outlived Henry VIII


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Answer 5

I would say it was one of two reasons. The main reason was that Henry desperately needed an heir to succeed him. In those days it was important to keep your dynasty going; with a son, the succession wouldn't be disputed. Henry already had a daughter, Mary, with his first wife Katherine of Aragon, but she was a girl and whoever heard of a woman reigning over the country! Also, Katherine was getting older, and it was highly unlikely that she would bear him any more children, let alone a healthy son.

Meanwhile, Henry had fallen head over heels in love/lust with Anne Boleyn, a young lady in waiting. He courted her, but Anne wouldn't succumb to his charms, thus becoming his mistress. For her, it was marriage or nothing. So Henry had to find a way to get rid of his first wife so that he could marry this tantalising young lady and make sons with her.

The Roman Catholic Church refused to grant the divorce. Katherine of Aragon insisted that she had never slept with Henry's brother, Arthur, to whom she had been married before Henry. Henry was basing his defence on the bible saying that you could not marry your brother's wife, and that she had slept with Arthur (which made it a real marriage). In order to gain his divorce, Henry had to establish the Church of England and end Catholicism.

Henry passed a law in 1534 making himself head of the Church of England. This act allowed him to divorce his wife or, rather, have the marriage annulled, and led to the formation of the Protestant Church of England. The Protestant movement was known as the Reformation.

Once Katherine, still protesting that she was truly Queen of England and Henry's legitimate wife, was banished to ever more gloomy castles, Henry married his Anne. She was almost certainly pregnant with a daughter (Elizabeth I) at the time and, although she became pregnant a couple more times, the children were either stillborn or lived a very short time. So, in her turn, Anne had to be got rid of and another wife found to bear Henry a son.

Answer 6

Well, the pretext was that he wanted a divorce from his wife Catherine de Aragon, but he really wanted to separate from the obedience to the Pope.
Old Henry was way toooo arrogant to obey and take orders from nobody.
Just look, he declared himself the head of English church, the best example of church and state together. He ruled everything

Answer 7

It was not love that made Henry VIII break with Rome.

He did not have a heir to the throne, because he could not produce a son he kept getting divorced or found ways to have his wives executed. One of his wives did produce a son but he died at a young age.

The Pope disapproved of divorce and Henry VIII divorced anyways.

Answer 8

henry the 8th wouldnt know love if it bit him on his royal rump. 6 wives sort of bolsters that fact. even though he broke from rome he still was a devout catholic and would take mass regularly in private. another reason was that the abbeys and monastries had too much power and money with land. henry wanted the power taken from them so he would be sole ruler even above rome and god. so when he dissolved the catholic church in england he siezed the money and land from all catholics. persecution of catholics still exists in england today. thats why Cof E and intergrated schools get allocated more money than catholic schools even though everybody pays into the social fund. my missus was a teacher in the south east of england in a catholic school, they needed a school bus and asked the school board for the deposit only. they were turned down but an intergrated school 2 miles up the road where 70 percent of the kids were muslim and hindu got a brand new bus bought and paid for by the school board. i always though england was an intergrated society, but where lies the equality.

Answer 9

Henry VIII made the break from Rome and made himself head of the church in England so he could ratify his own divorce. Rome would not sanctify his union with Anne Boelyn (I think it was Boelyn) So he just broke away and made himself head of the church to do it himself.
It didn't have anything to do with love, he needed an heir to the throne and was not going to get one with Catherine.

Answer 10

Power was the real reason