Why did Henry break with Rome?
- Created by: Himee Senanayake
- Created on: 07-06-18 21:03
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- Why did Henry break with Rome?
- Act of Succession
- marriage to Catherine was invalid
- Only Mary was declared ilegitimate
- Significance = Anne became queen and Henry rejected the authority of Rome
- Act of Supremacy 1534
- England was no longer under the Pope's control
- He decided everything about the English church
- The Succession
- Anne Boleyn was pregnant in 1533
- needed to make the marriage valid so that the child was a legitimate heir to the throne
- Henry needed a male heir to secure the Tudor dynasty
- female rulers = weak
- fell in love with Anne and thought she would provide him with a male heir
- main concern was to divorce Catherine of Aragon because she could no longer have children.
- Anne Boleyn was pregnant in 1533
- New Protestant ideas
- Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cranmer and Thomas Cromwell were supporters of religious reform and influenced Henry
- Henry did not follow all of Martin Luther's ideas, but decided to follow certain aspects of Protestantism
- Kings should be head of the Church
- Henry believed he should be in charge of every part of life including the Church because of a book by William Tyndale
- The State of the Church
- Henry = stubborn + wanted complete control
- many priest's loyalty was divided between Henry and the Pope
- people were concerned over the poor quality of the clergy
- some priests did not know Latin and were speaking it without knowing its meaning
- small minority criticised the church
- most people were happy and took pride in their parish churches
- Richard Hunne refused to pay funeral fees and was found dead in prison after being sued- member of the clergy had apparently killed him.
- Henry = stubborn + wanted complete control
- Money
- Church raised large sums of money - donations, birth, marriage, funeral fees and tithings (10th of wages go to Church)
- criticism on how wealthy the church was becoming
- Henry raised money from taking it from the Churches
- He banned giving money to the Pope through the Church
- earned money after spending lots on wars in Europe
- Church raised large sums of money - donations, birth, marriage, funeral fees and tithings (10th of wages go to Church)
- Act of Succession
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