Theme 1 - Monarchy and Government 1509-88 Flashcards
When did Henry VIII become king?
April, 1509
When did the Reformation Parliament first meet?
1529
When was the dissolution of the monasteries?
1536
When was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
1536
When was the first English Bible published?
1536
When did Henry VIII start to null his marriage to Catherine of Aragon?
1527
When was the Act of Supremacy passed?
1534
When was Edward born?
1537
When did Henry VIII die?
1547
When did (bloody) Mary become queen?
1553
When was the Elizabethan church settlement created?
1559
When was the Wyatt rebellion?
1554
When was the ‘commotion time’ - rebellions in the south-west and East Anglia?
1549
When was the Northern Revolt?
1569
When was the start of the war with Spain?
1585
When was the Spanish Armada defeated?
1588
What was the Great Chain of Being?
A hierarchical structure of all matter and life, thought to have been decreed by God
Primogeniture meaning
the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, particularly the son
Personal qualities of Henry VIII
- Spoke four or five languages
- well educated
- not prepared to be king (older brother, Arthur, had died in 1502)
- preferred to leave the day-to-day running of the country to his advisors, but still maintained control
- forceful and sometimes cruel
- influenced by the chivalric ideals of a renaissance king
Personal qualities of Edward VI (1547-53)
- Controlled by his protectors :(
- educated by humanist figures such as John Cheke Edward
- Spoke many languages including French, latin, Italian and Spanish
- Kept a chronicle from which we know his interests in military such
- Priggish and strongly Protestant
