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MEET THE TUDORS ((ELIZABETH I), HENRY VII, FIRST king of the TUDOR DYNASTY…
MEET THE TUDORS
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CONSOLIDATE his position THROUGH: --a TREATY with France --a TRADE TREATY with the Netherlands --a MARRIAGE between his son and the Spanish princess (in 1501)
LAID the foundations NAVAL POWER: --increasing speding with its merchant fleet --extend its military power
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in 1521 he was granted the TITLE of " DEFENDER OF THE FAITH" by the pope in recognition of his Lation treatise defending the sacraments
married the widow of Arthur by special dispensation, 20 years later she gave him a DAUGHTER, Mary, but Henry WANTED A MALE
He wanted to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn and asked the pope for a divorce in order to marry her ; but the pope would not declare his first marriage invalid he declared himself " SUPREME HEAD ON EARTH OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND" by means of the Act of Supremacy 1534
had the right to appoint bishops, decide on articles of faith and impose his will on a monasteries, he soon dissolved the monasteries, taking their wealth and social charities
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Anne Boleyn gave him a second daughter, Elizabeth, she fell out of favour and was tried and executed for treason. Henry had four wives and had one son only from the third
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she was rejection by her father and the cruel treatment of her mother both have a foundamental influence on her life
her resentment took on a religious connotation; she refused to abandon her own traditional faith and when she came queen she believed her self to be the agent of a Counter-Reformation
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Mary's died deserted by her husband, without an heir, her foreign and domestic policies were a failure and her country was still divided over religion
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was 25, she was intelligent and appasionate and had received an excellent edecation and could speak French, Lation and Italian but above all she was a politacal genius
faced the problems of marriage and succession, religius division, domestic discontent and foreign threats
her Church of England restored the country firmly to Protestantism, yet she garanted Catholics freedom of worship
she was unmarried and used this as a political weapon she was believed to be the Queen was married to her people, they accepted this and make a cult of their "Virgin Queen"
she wore magnificent clothes, had numerous portraits painted, the spirit emanating from the queen inspiret literature, music, drama and poetry
recognised Spain as her main trade rival and enemy. In 1588 the Spanish decided to invade England and sent a great armada of 130 galleons to the English Channe, but the English defeated the Spanish Armada.
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