Beneficaries And Losers

Question 1

Who were the winners

Answer 1

Henry
Nobility
Reformers

Question 2

Who were the losers

Answer 2

Monks
Nuns
Devout Catholics
Poor and sick
Tenant farmers

Question 3

Explain how reformers were winners

Answer 3

Closure of monasteries meant that powerful symbol of Catholic Church brought to an end
Dissolution next step to reformation of churches

Question 4

Explain how Henry was a winner

Answer 4

Wealth accrued made him financially independent and very rich
Helped end opp from within church to his rule

Question 5

Explain how the nobility were winners

Answer 5

Received monastic lands from king either as gift or sold cheaply
Could now farm land commercially increasing their incomes and wealth

Question 6

Explain how monks were losers

Answer 6

Lost their homes and livelihood
Many suffered unemployment and hardship

Question 7

Explain how nuns were losers

Answer 7

Lost homes and livelihood
Weren’t able to work in churches or marry
Hardships

Question 8

Explain how devout Catholics were losers

Answer 8

Mourned end of catholic practices such as chantries

Question 9

Explain how poor and sick were losers

Answer 9

Nowhere to go
Couldn’t provide for themselves
Became beggars and vagrants

Question 10

Explain how tenant farmers became losers

Answer 10

Rent rose
Thrown off lane by gentry

Question 11

What was the cultural impact of the dissolution

Answer 11

Loss of
Historic buildings
Beautiful artefacts
Centres of learning with libraries destroyed

Established cathedral grammars schools and uni colleges to replace monastery skls