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Break with Rome - Coggle Diagram
Break with Rome
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Pressuring the Pope
In 1531, after the Clergy had been collectively accused of praemunire, they were forced to acknowledge that the King was the "protector and supreme Head of the Church".
In 1532
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The Act of Conditional Restraint of Annates prevents the payment of annates to Rome. This was a significant attack on the Pope's right over the clergy.
Henry later asked the Pope to appoint Thomas Crammer as Archbishop of Canterbury - he was a reformist with some Protestant views,
Fall of Anne Boleyn
- At first Queen Anne was an advocate of Church reform.
- She had been responsible for helping to push the King in a more Protestant direction.
- However, relations between Anne and Cromwell publicly broke down.
- Cromwell was insecure and felt his relationship with the King, as well as his life, was threatened.
- He allied himself with the conservatives to persuade Henry that Anne committed adultery, which was treason.
- She was even more vulnerable when Catharine of Aragon died in Jan 1536.
- Anne was executed in May 1536.
- In Catholic eyes, Henry was now a widower and free to remarry.
- Henry already had his eyes on one of Anne's lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour.