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The English Reformation16th Century England
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The English Church during the Middle Ages

• Church corruption
• Simony
• Wealthy
• John Wycliffe Planting the seeds of reform
• Bible in English
• Wealth needs to be taken away from Church and
  given to the crown

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Henry VIII
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The Problem

• Henry VIII and the marriage to Catherine of
  Aragon
• Henry wants a son to continue the Tudor bloodline
• The entrance of Anne Boleyn

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Henry vs. Rome

• Henry VIII asks for the annulment, 1527
• Rejected!!!
• Pope Clement VII is under the control of Charles
  Vs (nephew of Catherine) army in Rome.
• Henry appeals to some of his advisers
• Thomas Cranmer, the new Archbishop of Canterbury,
  approves annulment (Cranmer is sympathetic to the
  Reform movement on the continent)

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The Official Break from Rome

• Act of Supremacy of 1534
• Made Henry the supreme head of the church in
  England
• Act of Dissolution, 1536
• Closing of monasteries and the ceding of church
  land to the crown
• Any additional revenue from the church given to
  the king

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Henry gets his heir

• Off with her head Anne Boleyn goes to chopping
  block, 1536
• Jane Seymour
• The future King Edward VI
• Henry VIII dies in 1547

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Henry VIII and his Six Wives
Catherine of Aragon (Annulled)
Anne Boleyn (beheaded)
Jane Seymour (died after giving birth)
Catherine Howard (beheaded)
Catherine Parr (survived)
Anne of Cleaves (Annulled)
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The Tudors after Henry VIII

• Edward VI
• Aided in the repeal of the Six Articles, made
  England a Protestant nation
• Mary Tudor
• Tried to return England to Catholicism
• Slaughtered hundreds of Protestants, Bloody
  Mary

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Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I.cont.

• Elizabeth I
• via media.middle road
• Becomes supreme ruler but refuses to be called
  supreme head of church
• The Renaissance in full force during her reign
• Shakespeare

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Importance of the English Reformation

• Henry VIII, a king, breaks from Rome.
• England will continue to have religious problems
  until the late 17th century
• 3. Paved the way for the concept of religious
  freedom (Puritans)