henry vIII
catholic church critisism
very superstitous, make you pay when you are, collected religous articles and promised people a place in heaven if they bought them e.g. a piece of bread chewed by jesus
try and scam people for their beliefs, had to pay the church for everything, pope takes a share of the money, you can marry someone if u pay them, only have permissions for stuff if u pay indulgences
bible in latin, people just looked at the windows because they didnt understand the priest who was talking in latin
why did henry break from rome?
was called 'defender of the faith
worried about an eir
stopped sleeping with catherine, began to love anne boleyn
charles invaded france to hold the pope a virtual prisoner, nephew of catherine
levictus 20:21 said it was unlawful to marry his brothers wife
coudn't get a divorce
priests were corrupt, selling indulgences to atone people for their sins
people had realised the corruptness of the church
anne boleyn arranged for english bibles to be smuggled in.
pope ordered henry to seperate from anne and was not allowed to re-marry, any child would be illegitimate
declared himself supreme head and sole protector of the church of england
in jan 1533 anne became pregnant, needed to hurry up fast
anne was crowned queen in june 1533, and elizabeth 1 was birn on 7 september 1533
nov 1534 passed act of supremecy meaning england broke away from rome, king head of the country and church