Reasons for and attempts to achieve an annulment from Catherine of Aragon
Reasons for and attempts to achieve an annulment from Catherine of Aragon
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- Reasons for and attempts to achieve an annulment from Catherine of Aragon
- Lack of a male heir
- Henry was worried that Mary would not be taken as sovereign, since their had never been a female ruler of England
- Catherine was not able to have any more children
- Religious reasons
- Believed that God was punishing him for marrying his brothers wife.
- Believed this was why he did not have a male heir
- Believed that God was punishing him for marrying his brothers wife.
- A text in the Old Testament, in The Book of Leviticus., claims that such a marriage was unlawful in the sight of God
- For Henry it got stuck in his conscience, he had sinned against God and now he must atone.
- Control of the curch
- Henry believed that the Pope did not have the power to allow a marriage with his own sister in law, therefor he had never been married to her in the sight of God
- Anne Boleyn
- Henry was much more attracted to Anne Boleyn than he was to Catherine
- Anne Boleyn and her family had been putting their influence in on Henry to move away from Catherine and to Anne
- Lack of a male heir
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