Henry VIII

Question 1

Who did Prince Arthur marry and what would it mean?

Answer 1

Prince Arthur married Spanish Princess Catherine which would mean friendship between England and Spain.

Question 2

What happened only a year after Arthur’s marriage?

Answer 2

He died

Question 3

What did Henry VII do after Arthur’s death and why?

Answer 3

He arranged for his second son, Henry, to marry her to avoid sending widow Catherine home to Spain and upsetting her father.

Question 4

When did Henry marry Catherine and what was the significance of the year?

Answer 4

1509, it was the same year that King Henry VII died.

Question 5

How old was Henry when he became King?

Answer 5

Seventeen

Question 6

Who was Henry VIII’s fist queen?

Answer 6

Catherine of Aragon

Question 7

How is Catherine and Henry’s relationship described as?

Answer 7

They were a popular and loving couple

Question 8

What happened in 1513, when Henry was in France?

Answer 8

Catherine ran the country for him and even beat a Scottish army at the Battle of Flodden

Question 9

What did Catherine bring home for Henry from the Battle of Flodden?

Answer 9

The dead King of Scotland’s coat, still stained with his blood.

Question 10

How long were Henry and Catherine married?

Answer 10

They were happily married for nearly 20 years

Question 11

What did Henry once say about Catherine?

Answer 11

‘If I were still free, I would choose her for a wife above all others.’

Question 12

How many more wives did he have after Catherine?

Answer 12

5 more wives

Question 13

What did Henry despirately want?

Answer 13

A son

Question 14

How many children did Catherine give birth to?

Answer 14

Six but only one, a girl called Mary, survived

Question 15

By when did Henry think that Catherine was too old to have any more children?

Answer 15

1527

Question 16

What did Henry want to do to Catherine? Why?

Answer 16

Divorce her because he had also fallen in love with another woman too - Anne Boleyn

Question 17

What did Henry get his lawyers to secretly look into? What was the outcome?

Answer 17

Whether his marriage to Catherine was legal or not. The marriage was found to be legal but Henry still wanted a divorce.

Question 18

What was Henry’s only chance to divorce Catherine? What was the problem with this though?

Answer 18

To ask the Pope (he was the only man who could give Henry what he wanted). Henry hated the fact that the Pope had this power over him… but he had a plan.

Question 19

What did Henry do to divorce Catherine? How did this make the Pope feel?

Answer 19

Henry ignored the Pope and made himself Head of the Church of England instead of the Pope. The Pope was furious but Henry could do as he pleased.

Question 20

When did Henry give himself the divorce? And what did this mean?

Answer 20

1533, Henry could now marry Anne Boleyn

Question 21

What happened in the summer of 1533?

Answer 21

Henry married his second wife, Anne Boleyn.

Question 22

What was the problem with Anne Boleyn though?

Answer 22

She was already pregnant and gave birth to a girl, Elizabeth

Question 23

When was Elizabeth born?

Answer 23

In September, 1533

Question 24

How did Henry feel when Elizabeth was born?

Answer 24

Very disappointed

Question 25

How did the monks in England feel about the new church? What did this lesd Henry to do?

Answer 25

They didn’t support it, they supported the Pope. He closed down all the monastries and the land was sold.

Question 26

What was the outcome from closing the monastries?

Answer 26

The monastries were very wealthy and the king made a good profit.

Question 27

Why was the Pope furious?

Answer 27

He was furious again because not only had Henry ignored him and closed all of the Catholic monasteries in England, but he had now stolen all their treasures.

Question 28

What did Henry’s desire for a baby boy do?

Answer 28

It began a series of events that altered religion in England forever.

Question 29

Yet despite this change of church leader and the closing of the monasteries, Henry only really made one other major religious change. What was it?

Answer 29

From 1538, he ordered that in every Church the Bible was to be read in English, not Latin. At last, ordinary people could understand what their religion was teaching them.

Question 30

What are Henry’s changes to the Church known as?

Answer 30

The ‘reformation’

Question 31

What was the closing down of the monastries known as?

Answer 31

The ‘dissolution’