The Divorce

Question 0

What year did Henry ask for a dispensation to marry Anne

Answer 0

1527

Question 1

What year was the Sack Of Rome?

Answer 1

1527

Question 2

What year did the Pope give a decretal commission for campeggio to travel to England

Answer 2

1528

Question 3

What year was Black Friars Trial

Answer 3

1529

Question 4

What year was Wolsey charged with praemunire?

Answer 4

1529, he died the following year

Question 5

What does George Bernard believe about the church before the reformation?

Answer 5

Anticlericalism wasn’t widespread but the church did have its weaknesses
The weaknesses helped Henry to begin the reformation but even if they’d been removed, it probably wouldn’t have prevented anything

Question 6

What does scarisibrick believe about the reformation?

Answer 6

Most people liked the church, which had its strengths and weaknesses but anticlericalism wasn’t widespread and Henry acted despite the church’s popularity

Question 7

What does Dickens believe about the reformation?

Answer 7

Most people didn’t like the church, anticlericalism was spreading and made the reformation easy for Henry

Question 8

Give three reasons why Henry believed his marriage to Catherine was invalid

Answer 8

• Leviticus chapter of the bible said, “if a man should take his brother’s wife, he has uncovered his brother’s nakedness, they shall be childless.”
• proven by Catherine’s inability to produce a male heir
• no Pope had right to set aside divine law, the papal dispensation that allowed Henry to marry Catherine in the first place had been invalid

Question 9

Give three reasons why Catherine didn’t want a divorce

Answer 9

• She was raised by strong, EQUALLY POWERFUL rulers
• She was extremely Catholic and strongly believed that she was destined to be queen
• her marriage to arthur was invalid, had never been consummated

Question 10

Give two reasons why Wolsey failed to get the divorce

Answer 10

• He was trying to put pressure on the Pope to admit that a previous Pope had been wrong (unlikely to happen)
• the Pope was purposefully trying to delay the proceedings

Question 11

Give two reasons why Wolsey fell

Answer 11

He failed to get the divorce for Henry, he’d grown impatient

The Boleyn faction had persuaded Henry that Wolsey was purposefully trying to delay the annulment

Question 12

What does Randell believe are the two most important motives behind Henry’s decision to marry AB

Answer 12

• lust

- genuine fear that he’s living in sin

Question 13

Why did Henry believe that the divorce would be easy to get (2)

Answer 13

• generally the Pope grants a king’s wish

- Wolsey was a cardinal and had influence in Rome

Question 14

How did Wolsey raise objections to the dispensation on technical grounds?

Answer 14

There were errors in the wording (so it wasn’t the pope’s fault but a clerk’s)

Question 15

What happened to wolsey’s claims of the wrong technical wording on the dispensation

Answer 15

Charles v never handed over his Spanish copy which didn’t have the clerical mistakes

Question 16

What does Bernard believe about the reason for wolsey’s fall?

Answer 16

It was down to Henry alone, he was frustrated and wanted to show the Pope his determination

Question 17

Wolsey’s and Henry’s reactions to campeggio’s arrival for the black Friars trial

Answer 17

Wolsey - it was good, he knew C and thought he could manage him
Henry - angry, C arrived late, he thought it was another delaying tactic

Question 18

Why did the Pope agree to let the case be tried in England in 1528?

Answer 18

Charles V seemed less powerful as France gained some victories

Question 19

What happened at the black Friars trial and in the summer

Answer 19

Catherine made a single appearance where she made a dramatic speech in front of Henry
The case was suspended in July for a summer recess

Question 20

What happened in 1530 - 1531

Answer 20

No real strategy, Henry thought the case was going to be favourable to Catherine and so he tried to delay proceedings

Question 21

Who broke through for the divorce in 1531?

Answer 21

Thomas Cromwell

Question 22

What year was the act in restraint of appeals

Answer 22

1533

Question 23

What did act in restraint of appeals 1533 say?

Answer 23

The king had final authority in legal matters and it was illegal to appeal to the Pope (as Catherine had tried to do, previously)

Question 24

Who was Cranmer

Answer 24

Member of Boleyn faction, made Archbishop of Canterbury by Henry (the Pope agreed) in 1532

Question 25

What year did AB become pregnant?

Answer 25

1533

Question 26

What did a small group of clergymen begin doing in 1529?

Answer 26

Attacked church for its ‘abuses’,

Seemed to want to force money out o the church as well as take control of its legal system

Question 27

What happened to the clergy in 1530?

Answer 27

Indicated that they would be charged with praemunire, could be punished by losing all property to the church

Question 28

What happened to the clergy’s charges in 1531? What did they accept of Henry?

Answer 28

Parliament of the church met, told that charges would be dropped if they paid £100,000 and accepted Henry as the supreme head
They added the words ‘so far as God allows’
Henry agreed to accept money over 5 years

Question 29

What was the supplication of ordinaries?

Answer 29

Said that future changes to canon law must have the king’s approval first, Henry should also be allowed to choose which laws could stay and which could go

Question 30

What did the supplication of ordinaries mean in theory?

Answer 30

Church lost its legal independence in England

Question 31

What did Henry do to make sure the submission of the clergy was passed

Answer 31

Targeted individuals and threatened/pressured them

Question 32

What happened to add extra authority to the submission of clergy?

Answer 32

An act of parliament confirmed their terms of surrender

Question 33

What year was the act of first fruit and tenths?

Answer 33

1534,

Question 34

What did the act of first fruit and tenths say

Answer 34

Any new addition to the clergy had to pay their first year of income and 10% of it every year after, to the crown

Question 35

What did the Pope declare in 1534 that made Henry furious?

Answer 35

That Catherine was his legal wife

Question 36

What did the act of extinguishing the authority of the bishop say, 1536

Answer 36

Any powers ended, anyone defended papal power would lose all their property