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Henry VIII: Key terms Flashcards

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The Act of Liberties and Franchises

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  • 1536

- Removed powers of regional nobles, ensured more consistent application of law (Cromwell)

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Act of Union with Wales

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  • 1536
  • Centralised the power of the crown
  • re-organised local government
  • extension of royal authority (Cromwell)
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Cromwell’s reforms

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aim was to:

  • reform the law
  • to set up a Puritan Church
  • to promote education
  • to reform administration
  • resistance of the lawyers dampened his enthusiasm for law reform
  • able to appoint good judges both in England and Ireland

privy council:
- Professional one with 29 trained lawyers and bureaucrats rather than nobility

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Court of Augmentations

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Controlled ex church land and finances

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Court of General Surveyors

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Ex monastic land and finances

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Court of First Fruits and Tenths

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Collected money previously sent to Rome

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Court of wards

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Feudal right to collect from estate of a minor

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Act of supremacy 1534

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Henry becomes head of church and state

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Act of supremacy 1534

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Henry becomes head of church and state

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A ‘King-in-Parliament’

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Bureaucratic gov, functions varied out by Parliament rather than king alone.

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The Act in Restraint of Appeals

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1533

start of process that effectively transferred the power of the Catholic Church to the king

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The Act annexing the First Fruits and Tenths to the Crown

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  • Annates paid to the Pope now paid to the King
  • financial burden for clergy
  • strengthen royal supremacy
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The Treason Act 1534

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act that said it was punishable by death to deny that the king was the sole head of the church

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The Treason Act 1534

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act that said it was punishable by death to deny that the king was the sole head of the church

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Wolseys national survey 1522

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Asses who could pay tax and how much, gained £200,000 in forced loans.

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The Amicable Grant 1525

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  • Demanded priests to pay 1/3 and others 1/6
  • had 10 weeks to find money
  • Raise money to invade France
  • No approval from parliament
  • caused a rebellion
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Recoinage 1526

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  • New coins and reduced silver in coins
  • Internationally confusing
  • price increases as money lost value
  • Artificial boom but long term costs to living standards
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The Valour Ecclesiasticus 1535

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so he would know how much wealth the Church had in England and Wales and how much he could take
used this before the dissolution of the monasteries so he could decide which ones to close

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Cromwell’s Royal Injunctions to the clergy 1538

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Relics removed from churches

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The Matthew Bible 1537

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Distinctly Protestant

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Act of Six Articles 1539

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  • Confirmed transubstantiation
  • moved towards Catholicism
  • denial meant burning
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Act of Ten Articles 1536

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7 sacraments of Catholic Church rejected

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Renewal of Medina Del Campo 1510

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Henry married Catherine

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Invasion of France 1512

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International alliance against France allies with Spain to take area south-west of France- failed, embarrassment

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1513 Battle of the Spurs

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Take Therouanne and Tournai, ends in treaty

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Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye

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Henry gives up claim to French throne and promises Mary I to Louis XII
Keeps land and gets annual payment.

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Battle of Flodden 1513

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Battle of Flodden 1513

Catherine sons 30,000 men with Thomas Howard to meet James, James IV killed and 10,000 Scots

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Treaty of Noyon 1516

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Peace between France and Spain

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Treaty of Cambrai 1517

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1517

Peace between HRE and France, Duke of Albany sent to stir relations with Scot and Eng

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Treaty of London 1518

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General European peace, each country signed with England, upstaged pope.

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Field of the Cloth of Gold 1520

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Henry meets with Francis I swore brotherly love and equality demonstrated strength and chivalry,
cost 15,000

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Treaty of Bruges 1521

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Secret Anglo-Spanish treaty promising to declare war on France in 1522

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Battle of Pavia 1525

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Francis I was defeated and captured by Spain

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Anti-imperial league of cognac 1526

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Wolsey becomes peace maker, tries to form connections whilst remaining neutral, wanted to pressure Charles into being more reasonable.

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Sack of Rome (1527)

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a military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, then part of the Papal States

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Treaty of Aimens

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England make alliance with France against Spain/ HRE

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Peace of Cambrai 1529

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French defeated by HRE

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Schmalkaldic League 1531

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1531

Protestant alliance formed by Lutherans against the Holy Roman Empire

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Silken Thomas Rebellion 1536

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  • Son of Earl of Kildare rebels after death of father
  • Announces support of pope and Charles V
  • Him and 5 uncles arrested
  • royal authority established over Ireland
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The Truce of Nice 1538

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Alliance between Charles V and Francis I- Catholic countries allied.

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James V married Mary of Guise

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Scot and French alliance

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Solway Moss 1542

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Duke of Norfolk to attack the Scots, defeated 1000 prisoners

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Treaty of Greenwich 1543

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Marriage alliance with Mary Queen of Scots and Edward

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Treaty of Ardres (1546)

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Anglo-French treaty in which Henry is to keep Boulogne for 8 years and then return it for 2 million ecus 1554

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The ‘rough wooing’

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Angered by rejection of Greenwich did series of raids in border region

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