Henry+VIII

=  __**Henry VII (1509-47 AD)**__  =  He was born in 1491, was the son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. The magnitude of his reign is often overlooked by six marriages which made a major impact on his reign. All his wives were either executed (usually for infidelity), died in child birth, or he never officially recognized their marriage.  He usually avoided governing in person so; consequently, matters of the state were left in the hands of the others. Henry didn’t appear to have much confidence. In the early part of his reign, though he invaded France, defeated the Scottish of the Battle of the Flodden Field and wrote against Martin Luther’s reformist ideas, and the pope awarded Henry the title “Defender of the Faith”.  Henry grew in government involvement in the 1530’s and western Christendom (separation of church, of England from Roman Catholicism) greatly changed England. The separation was actually caused by his obsession with having a male heir. His current wife failed to produce a make and in order to keep the dynastic legitimate forced him to get a legal annulment from the Pope. Henry created the Reformation Parliament in 1529, which help influence in political and religious affairs which was not known to federal parliaments. There were religious reform movements but only on a small scale. The break from Rome didn’t happen through law or social unrest, Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England, recognized this by making changes to worship ritual instead of completely changing the religious leaders/system. England transitioned into an era “conformity of mind” with the new royal leaders (similar to the absolution of Louis XIV)by 1563, all of the religious and government officials were supposed to publicly approve of the break with Roma and take oath of loyalty. The king drifted from the medieval mindset of ruler insisted became the modern of a ruler as iconic of the state. The remainder of Henry’s reign was uneventful. He married his sixth wife who eventually gave him a son. Government departments of record keeping (births, baptisms, marriages, deaths) were established. This was due to the reformist factions winning Henry’s confidence and benefiting from this dissolution of monasteries, as revenue, went for either the crown or nobility. Some Changes in religious policy also occurred.  Henry VII built upon what his father established. The break with Rome combined with an increase in government bureaucracy. Led to the royal supremacy until Charles I was executed for the institution of commonwealth 100 years after Henry’s death.

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