Henry VIII - History

Question 1

What was a faction?

Answer 1

An alliance in the king’s court.

Question 2

What was the court that s created for sale of land after the dissolution of the monasteries called?

Answer 2

The court of augmentations.

Question 3

What was the court of the star chamber?

Answer 3

It was a court, run by the king (or Wolsey) to administer justice.

Question 4

Who was in the star chamber court?

Answer 4

The privy councillors

Question 5

Who were the privy councillors?

Answer 5

They were the king’s close advisors.

Question 6

What were the ordinances?

Answer 6

A reform of the king’s household in 1525.

Question 7

What was the HRE? Both answers.

Answer 7

Holy Roman Empire

Holy Roman Emperor (Charles V)

Question 8

What was the most important position in the king’s household?

Answer 8

Lord chancellor.

Question 9

Who held the Lord chancellor position for the first half of the topic?

Answer 9

Thomas Wolsey.

Question 10

What was the name of Martin Luther’s form of Christianity?

Answer 10

Lutheran/Lutheranism.

Question 11

What was the idea behind of Martin Luther’s form of Christianity?

Answer 11

Justification by faith, meaning that people only had to follow Jesus’ teachings.

Question 12

What was a Papal Bull?

Answer 12

A new papal policy.

Question 13

What was the name of the tax to the pope?

Answer 13

Peter’s pence.

Question 14

What was the name of the rebellion in the north in 1536?

Answer 14

The Lincolnshire Rising, the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Question 15

What was the name of the 14th century law which made the king’s law more important than papal law?

Answer 15

Praemunire

Question 16

What was the name of the break with Catholicism?

Answer 16

The Henrician Reformation

Question 17

What was the supplication against the ordinaries?

Answer 17

A parliamentary petition against Bishops abusing their position.

Question 18

What is the word for being expelled from the Catholic Church?

Answer 18

Excommunication.

Question 19

Who led the conservative faction at court?

Answer 19

The Duke of Norfolk & Stephen Gardiner.

Question 20

What did the conservative faction stand for?

Answer 20

Traditional religious practices and they were against further reforms of the church.

Question 21

Who ran the court of augmentations?

Answer 21

Richard Riche

Question 22

What is an act of attainder?

Answer 22

An act through parliament that declared the accused guilty without need for trial.

Question 23

Evangelicals in powerful positions

Answer 23

Cranmer and Cromwell were two of the most powerful men in England, and Cromwell was always trying to push through Protestant reform, and was moderately successful

Question 24

There was not much popular support for Protestantism

Answer 24

Evidence for this is the pilgrimage of grace, the Lincolnshire rising and the other factions in court such as the conservatives.

Question 25

Catholicism was still popular in the north

Answer 25

The Lincolnshire rising occurred and so did the pilgrimage of grace, showing a large problem with Catholicism

Question 26

Henry was still Catholic at his death

Answer 26

Henry reopened monasteries to pray for him after his death, he executed Cromwell, however he educated Edward as a Protestant.

Question 27

The break with Rome caused

Answer 27

Papal authority to disappear and the king to become the acting head of the church in England, however, the Pope as still recognised as a religious figure.

Question 28

Marriage to Anne of Cleves was

Answer 28

Both unsuccessful and an attempt of Protestant gains by Cromwell

Question 29

Anne Boleyn protected reformers such as Cranmer and Cromwell, however…

Answer 29

She was executed and Protestant ideas started to decline in their success after Henry lost her clouding his judgement in her favour.

Question 30

There were conservatives in court

Answer 30

For example, Norfolk, one of the most powerful men in England, and a close friend of Henry

Question 31

The dissolution of the monasteries…

Answer 31

Caused a large catholic influence to fall from England, however, Henry reopened some, showing that it was as more the corruption that Henry was opposed to.

Question 32

Execution of extreme Protestants as heretics such as…

Answer 32

John Lambert in 1538

Question 33

Cromwell picked reformer bishops

Answer 33

This showed that even if Henry was a catholic, the priests and bishops were not, as they were the ones with the local religious power, so England was slowly being converted to Protestantism.

Question 34

The fall of Anne Boleyn and Cromwell in 1536 and 1540

Answer 34

Showed a complete lack of trust from Henry in these two, and as they were both Protestant, it showed that the influence of Protestantism declining, and especially after Cromwell’s removal, Protestant reform all but stopped.

Question 35

1521-Assertion September Sacramentorum

Answer 35

Showed the reintroduction of Catholic ideals in England as the seven sacraments were not a Protestant view.

Question 36

Cromwell organised preaching campaigns against Catholic practices

Answer 36

His showed that there was Protestant influences in England so long as Cromwell was alive.

Question 37

The six articles

Answer 37

In 1536 confirmed that England was Catholic, as it reintroduced the seven sacraments and that priests should uphold their vows again