Henry VIII and the Reormation Flashcards
Who was the first Tudor king?
Henry VII
When did Henry VII reign?
1485-1509
When was King Henry VIII born and when did he die?
Born 28th June 1491.
Died 28th January 1547.
Who had Henry VIII inherited the throne from?
Henry VII
In what state was the country when Henry VIII became king?
His father had unified the country, stabilising it and put money back into the crown.
Was Henry VIII supposed to be the heir to the throne?
No, his brother Arthur was but he died and Henry became king.
How are interpretations formed?
Historians use a range of available evidence from the period and other historians to form an interpretation.
What is a Machiavellian king?
A calculating, cruel and manipulating one.
What is a Renaissance man?
Someone who is cultured, intelligent, a sportsman and a romantic.
What evidence is there that Henry VIII was a cruel and maniputlative ruler?
He executed his closest advisors, some of his wives. He believed his powers were second only to God.
What was the Field of the Cloth of Gold?
A celebration of peace in 1520 between the French king and Henry VIII.
What did some historians say happened to Henry as he got older?
He became more harsh and brutal.
Pope Clement VII said Henry VIII was…
England’s most cruel and abominable tyrant.
Define usurper…
A person who has taken a position of power illegally or by force.
In what year, did the reformation in Europe begin?
1517 when Martin Luther pinned his 95 theses to the door of a church in Germany.
Why had people begun to criticise the Catholic Church in the early 16th century?
It’s wealth and the rising corruption - false relics, peddling indulgences.
What was transubstantiation?
The Catholic belief that when a parishioners took the bread and wine during Mass, it literally became the actual body and blood of Christ.
Who was Martin Luther?
A German monk who despised the wealth and corruption in the church.
How did Luther’s ideas spread so quickly?
The printing press (invented only 50 years earlier).
Catholic or Protestant?
1. Transubsanstiation
2. The Pope
3. Bibles in local language
4. Relics
5. Pilgrimage
6. Salvation through personal faith in Christ
7. Doom Paintings
8. Ministers can marry
9. Many different types of church
10. The Bible is the sole authority
- Catholic
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Catholic
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Protestant
- Protestant
Give 2 ways people’s lives were connected to the church?
Baptism, marriage, funerals, Holy Days, Mass every Sunday
Why was the pope so powerful in the 1500s?
Controlled large area of land in central Italy, he was God’s representative on Earth, he could excommunicate European Monarchs
Why were some people critical of the Church’s appearance?
Gold, silver, large paintings and stained glass windows cost a lot of money
Who was forbidden from reading the Bible?
Ordinary people
Give two ways the Church had become so wealthy by the 1500s
Indulgences, tithes, selling relics and donations and people leaving money in their will
