Religious Changes HVIII EXTRA INFO

Question 1

Main religious changes under HVIII (5)

Answer 1

• Summoned the ‘reformation of parliament’ Aug 1529
• Acts in restraint of appeals of Rome 1533
• The Act of Supremacy 1534
• Treason Act Dec 1534
• First Act of Succession 1534
• Dissolution of Monasteries 1536-40
• The Act of Six Articles 1539
• English Bible Proliferation 1539-40
• Marriage to Catherine Parr 1543

Question 2

Summoned the ‘reformation of parliament’ Aug 1529

Answer 2

The King summoned it in order to settle what was called his ‘great matter’, his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which the Papacy in Rome was blocking.

Question 3

Acts in restraint of appeals of Rome 1533

Answer 3

• transferring papal powers to the king
• King was now supreme head of the church in England
• Rome had no power to rule over matrimonial cases
• Cranmer declared henrys marriage with Catherine null and void
• Henry’s marriage to Anne was declared valid

Question 4

Treason Act Dec 1534

Answer 4

• limited freedom of speech
• treason could now be defined as intent expressed in word as well in deed
• listed key treasonable crimes e.g calling King a heretic

Question 5

First Act of Succession 1534

Answer 5

• registered Catherine and Henry marriage as invalid
• Crown was now to be passed to Henry and Annes children
• nation to take oath upholding their marriage
• Treasonable offence to attack or deny the marriage