Religious Changes Henry VIII Flashcards

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What did Henry feel was essential to secure a peaceful and strong progression and ensure the survival of the tudor dynasty?

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A male heir

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What did Henry decide about his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, his brother Arthur’s wife?

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That is was against the law

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Why did Henry desperately want a male heir?

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  • secure a peaceful and strong progression

- ensure survival of Tudor dynasty

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Why didn’t Henry like the idea of a Queen ruling?

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Thought it would lead to disaster

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What was Henry convinced of by 1527?

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His need to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon

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What did Henry become obsessed with?

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The idea that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was, and always had been against God’s law

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What did the passage in Leviticus state?

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“If a man shall take his brother’s wife…they shall be childless.”

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What did Henry feel he had done by marrying Catherine?

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Sinned

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What did Henry feel that leaving his daughter to succeed him would lead to?

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Political anarchy and instability

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What can Anne Boleyn be considered as?

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Historical prime cause number one for the reformation

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What did Henry see a divorce as?

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The answer to all of his problems

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When did Henry VIII ask Pope Clement VII for an annulment?

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1527

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When did Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sack Rome?

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May 1527

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What happened to Pope Clement VII in May 1527?

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He was taken prisoner by Charles V

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Why did Pope Clement VII’s imprisonment in 1527 severely limit his ability to negotiate a settlement with HVIII?

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Charles V was Catherine of Aragon’s nephew and he was in no position to agree to HVIIIs divorce to his aunt

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Why didn’t Charles V want to accept Henry’s divorce from his aunt?

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He wanted to keep the peace and didn’t want to bring shame upon the family

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What did Anne Boleyn give to henry in 1530?

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William Tyndale’s book: ‘On The Obedience of a Christian Man’

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What did Tyndale’s book state?

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That the Pope’s writ dod not run in England

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Seeing as the Pope had failed to agree to HVIIIs divorce, what was the only way to get the divorce which Henry thought the country needed for future security?

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By ending Papal jurisdiction in England and transfer the ability to deal with such matters to the King and his ministers.

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When was the Reformation Parliament called?

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1529

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What was the Reformation Parliament of 1529 used for?

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To put pressure on the Pope to grant a divorce.

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What did an anti clerical group of MPs within the Reformation Parliament do?

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Set up a committee to put forward measures which were designed as attacks on the clergy

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What was laid against some of the clergy in 1530?

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Praemunire

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When Convocation met in 1531 to deal with the attacks, what did they agree on?

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They agreed to pay Henry off and accept that he was ‘The Supreme Head of Church’ in England and Wales.

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What would the anti clerical feelings of the parliament be used for?

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To destroy the independence of the church

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How did Henry manage to threaten the pope?

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Through statutes and by showing that the people who counted in the kingdom were behind him

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What happened when parliament met in 1532?

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They were angered. Under Cromwell’s guidance they attacked harshly upon the church and papacy.

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What was the Supplication against the Prdinates 1532?

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An attack on the church’s independent laws and the courts in particular.

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What was the church becoming?

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Less and less independent

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What did Cromwell and the king call for?

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An undivided allegiance, meaning people had to choose between their King or the Pope.

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What did Convocation do in 1532?

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Surrendered to the King by accepting his demands in a document called ‘Submission of the Clergy’

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What did the Conditional Restraint of Annates Act of 1532 do?

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Suspended the Pope receiving one third of the episcopacy’s income.

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What was the Conditional Restraint of Annates Act a form of?

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Economic blackmail

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Clement did not surrender, and he threatened to do what?

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Excommunicate Henry if he went on with the divorce

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Therefore with these laws what did the King manage to do?

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Claim supremacy over the church in england and wales and abolished one of the Pope’s main sources of income.

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Why did the divorce need to be rushed?

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Anne Boleyn was pregnant

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What was the Act in restraint of Appeals 1533?

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Forebode appeals from English Church Courts to Rome

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What did the Act in restraint of appeals include?

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Marital appeals, meaning Catherine of Aragon could not appeal to the pope regarding the divorce

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What did the act in restraint of appeals 1533 mean?

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That appeals now went to the king

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What did the act in restraint of appeals allow?

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It allowed henry to get his divorce.

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What was the Fruit and Tenths act of 1534?

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Higher taxes on the clergy. The crown’s income increased by about 40%

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What was the succession act of 1534?

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The crown would go to the children on Henry and Anne, and not to Mary who was now illegitimate.

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What was the Act of Supremacy of 1534?

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It fixed Henry’s rights in a statute. “Justly and rightfully and ought to be supreme head of church.”

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What year were the ten Articles?

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1536

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What were the Ten Articles?

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The seven sacraments of Catholic doctrine were rejected, leaving a belief in 3: baptism, Eucharist and penance. A clear move towards Protestantism

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What was the Bishops’ Book of 1537?

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The four lost sacraments were rediscovered but of lesser value

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What did the Bishops’ Book emphasise?

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The authority of scriptures. God’s word is what’s important not the Church’s analysis.

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Why was the English Bible of 1537 a huge change for people?

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It was extremely Protestant.

People could now analyse God’s word for themselves for the first time without relying on the Church’s analysis.

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Who was the. King persuaded by in 1536 to allow he English Bible?

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The secret Protestants, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer

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What were the clergy ordered to do four times a day?

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Preach in the people’s language, they now understood what was being said.

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What were the 6 Articles of 1539?

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A radical shift in doctrine.
Confirmed transubstantiation
Banned marriage of priests

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What is supposedly the main reason for the 6 Articles?

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Henry’s fear that a campaign had been launched by Catholic powers against England.