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Dates of Reign

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1509-1547

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Names of Parents

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Henry VII and Elizabeth of York

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Names of Children

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Mary I, Elizabeth I, Edward VI, and Henry Fitzroy the Bastard

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Two of Henry VII’s ministers that Henry VIII executed in 1510

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Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson

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Name of Dudley and Empson’s money-making council that Henry VIII dissolved

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The Council Learned

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What style of government marked the beginning of Henry’s reign?

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Conciliar - Privy Council (e.g. Fox and William)

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Henry secured the dynasaty by marrying who in June 1509?

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Catherine of Aragon

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Henry populated the Privy Council with his noblemen known as ‘the….

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…minions’ (e.g. Nicholas Carew, Francis Bryan, and Henry Norris)

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Henry executed which duke for bigging up his own royal blood?

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Buckingham - Edward Stafford

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Henry executed which prisoner before sailing to France in 1513?

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Edmund de la Pole - former Earl of Suffolk

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Before the reformation, Henry VIII summoned Parliament how many times?

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Four

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Who became Lord Chancellor (Chief Minister) in 1515?

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Thomas Wolsey

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What powerful object was Wolsey allowed to possess and use at will?

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The Great Seal - the royal rubber stamp

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Who did Wolsey fail to purge from the Privy Council?

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The Minions, (Charles Brandon, William Carey, Arthur Pole).

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What was Wolsey charged with and found guilty of in 1529?

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Praemunire - loyalty to the Pope over the Crown

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Who was Chief Minister from 1532 - 1540?

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Thomas Cromwell

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What was Cromwell’s solution for the ‘King’s Great Matter’?

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Splitting from Rome

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How did Cromwell go about achieving the split from Rome?

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Parliamentary legislation

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What style of government did Henry conclude his reign with?

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Conciliar (Gardiner, Norfolk, Wriothesley, Seymour - Hertford)

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The ‘reformers’ came out on top after the arrests if which father and son (after the latter adopted royal heraldry)?

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Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (the latter was beheaded - the former spared by Edward VI)

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Where in France did 10K troops land (and fail) in 1512?

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Guienne, Quitane (south-west). Duped by Ferdinand.

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What two northern French towns were seized in 1513?

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Therouanne and Tournai

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What battle repelled the Scottish invasion and killed James IV?

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Flodden Field (1513)

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Who did Henry send to Paris to marry Louis XII?

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His sister - Mary

25
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Why didn’t Mary’s marriage to Louis and alliance last over 3 months?

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Louis died and Mary secretly married Charles Brandon, the Earl of Sussex

26
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What treaty position Henry as Europe’s top diplomat in 1518?

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Treaty of London

27
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The Treaty of London was a non-aggression pact in response to?

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The march of the Muslim Ottomans into Christian Europe

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Peace with France affirmed in 1520 at what event?

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The Field of Cloth of Gold

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Henry didn’t have the funds to convince Charles V (Holy Roman Emporor) to unite for a march on where on 1525?

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Paris - this was after the defeat and capture of Francis I at the Battle of Pavia

30
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What battle crushed the Scots (again) in 1542?

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Solway Moss - James V died shortly after this

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Despite the Treaty of Greenwich, who didn’t the Scottish Parliament ratify Prince Edward’s betrothal to?

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Mary, Queen of Scots (in a minority at the time)

32
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Which French town was seized in the 1544 campaign?

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Boulogne

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French retaliation to Henry’s 1544 campaign resulted in the sinking of what?

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Henry’s flagship - the Mary Rose - off the Isle of Wight

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Who was appointed as archbishop of Canterbury after arguing that Popes had no jurisdiction outside of Rome?

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Thomas Cranmer - he claimed that monarchs were Chris’s deputies on Earth - not the Pope

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Which part of the Bible gave Henry an excuse to dismiss his first marriage as illegal and in need of an annulment?

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Leviticus - no man should marry the widow of his brother

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What was hoped the Act in Restraint on Annates would do?

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Pressure the Vatican into permitting Henry’s divorce

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What did the Act of Supremacy (1534) make Henry VIII?

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The first ‘majesty’ and the Supreme Head of the Church of England

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What oath did the Act of Succession enforce on people?

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Recognition of Anne Boleyn as Queen and future children as heirs

39
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Which prominet pair were beheaded for refusing to swear the oath in the Act of Succession?

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Thomas More (Lord High Chancellor and Chief Minister) and John Fisher (the Bishop of Rochester)

40
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Which Act made calling Henry a ‘heretic’ a capital crime?

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The Treason Act of 1534

41
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What did Henry say about rleics, pilgrimages, and holy days?

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Superstitious distractions

42
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What did Henry say about transubstatiation?

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It was true - Christ was literally present at the Mass (staunch believer)

43
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Which publication reduced the sacraments down to 3?

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The Ten Articles of 1536

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Which Act eventually restored the lost sacraments?

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The Six Article Act of 1539

45
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What was Henry the first ever to permit regarding the bible?

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Publication in English (e.g. the Great Bible

46
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Which tax triggered a major upriosing in the east, 1525?

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The Amicable Grant (to fund the Charles V invasion of Paris)

47
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Why did protesters of The Amicable Grant walk away from this uprising?

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Wolsey and Henry abadoned the policy in a humiliating defeat

48
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Which rebel led to the Pilgrimage of Grace in 1536?

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Robert Aske

49
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What was the key cause of the Pilgrimage of Grace?

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Dissolution of the monasteries / hatred of Cromwell

50
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Why did this uprising come to nothing?

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Pardons, promises of talks, then 74 leaders hanged!

51
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How did the Laws in Wales Act centralise power?

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Wales split into shires and sent MPs to Parliament (1536)

52
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Who’s autonomy did the Act Resuming Liberties stifle?

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The palatines (Lancashire, Chesire, and Durham)

53
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Who became wardens of 3 (newly made) Scot marches?

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Gentry (e.g. Wharton) not nobles (Percy / Dacre)

54
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What council was made into a permanet body in York?

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The Council in the North - led by Henry Fitzroy (royal bastard)

55
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Who was returned to the succession plan in 1544?

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The Succession Act restored Mary and Elizabeth

56
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Who did the will will pass the throne to after Edward/Mary/Elizabeth?

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Heirs of his sister Mary (if Ed/Mary/Eliz had no offspring)

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