Pages 1-8 Mrs Myers Notes

Question 1

What year did Henry marry Catherine?

Answer 1

1509

Question 2

Which mistress have Henry an illegible son & what was him name?

Answer 2

Elizabeth Blount
Henry Fitzroy (1519)

Question 3

Why did Henry need control of canon law?

Answer 3

So he could divorce Catherine, as she could not give him a male heir
Henry needed a male heir to avoid a disputed succession on his death

Question 4

What did the Statute of Praemunire (1350’s) do?

Answer 4

Meant that no Papal bull could be carried out in England without royal consent

Question 5

What did the Statute of Provisors (1350’s) do?

Answer 5

Meant that the Crow appointed the bishops and so controlled the Church

Question 6

Who was Cardinal Wolsey?

Answer 6

Henry’s chief councillor
Was a legate a latere with almost the powers of the pope in England
His first loyalty was to this king

Question 7

What did Henry and Wolsey do together in the 1520’s?

Answer 7

Suppressed heresy which lessened the likelihood of disorder

Also benefitted the king by reinforcing Crown control of the church this weakening papal control in England

Question 8

Why was Wolsey unable to negotiate the annulment of Henry’s marriage?

Answer 8

Pope Clement VII was influenced by HRE Charles V & Charles had feared an English-French alliance if Henry VIII had been free to marry a French princess

Question 9

What had Wolsey tried to use to get the annulment?

Answer 9

The arguments from Leviticus which the Papacy has countered quoting Deueronomy over whether is was the right thing to marry your bro’s widow
Implied criticism of Julius II who has granted dispensation

Question 10

When was Cardinal Campeggio sent to England and what was he given?

Answer 10

1527

Clement VII had given him the secretary commission (power to grant the decree to end Henry & Catherine’s marriage)

Question 11

What year did Henry stop being a faithful husband to Catherine?

Answer 11

1514

Question 12

Which Lutheran translated the bible into English?

Answer 12

William Tyndale

Question 13

What did Humanists wanted people to be educated with?

Answer 13

Educated in the use of images so they were an aid of worship

Question 14

Why did Wolsey fall in 1529?

Answer 14

Papacy wouldn’t resume negotiations with Wolsey over the annulment despite his efforts as Charles didn’t want the divorce

Question 15

When was Wolsey dismissed and under what means?

Answer 15

1529

Breaking law of Praemunire