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Henry VIII - government - Coggle Diagram
Henry VIII - government
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parliament
reformation parliament 1529-36 - parliament was used largely to secure royal supremacy and the divorce
Act of Succession, April 1534 - declared marriage to Catherine void, succession should go to children of Anne Boleyn and o deny legitimacy of the marriage was treason
Act of Supremacy, November 1534 - declared Henry Supreme Head of the Church of England - legal basis for break with Rome
Act in Restraint of Appeals, April 1533 - declared that monarch had imperial jurisdiction (not subject to foreign powers) - appeals to Rome couldn't be made
Treason Act, November 1534 - tightened - treason could be committed by spoken word, treason to call the king a "heretic" or a "tyrant" - Thomas More was executed in 1535 due to this law - denied Royal Supremacy
Act Annexing First Fruits and Tenths to the Crown 1534 - annates paid by the bishop were now to be paid to Henry, not to the Pope
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The King's Great Matter
Henry asked Wolsey to secure an annulment from the Pope so that Henry would be allowed to marry again but Wolsey failed to secure this
the divorce had to be secured quickly as Anne Boleyn fell pregnant, meaning Henry needed to marry her quickly for the child to be legitimate
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Henry and Cromwell exploited the weaknesses of the Church (eg. that the Church had been criticised by humanists) and put pressure on the Pope (eg. accusing the clergy of praemunire in 1531 and fining them)
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Henry married Anne Boleyn early in 1533 and divorces Catherine of Aragon later that year - Elizabeth was born a legitimate heir in September 1533 but Henry was unhappy as she was a girl
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