The Elizabethan Period Essays - House Of Tudor, Annulment

The Elizabethan Period King Henry VIII was born in Greenwich on the 28th of January 1491 ( The British Monarchy, pg.1 ). King Henry VIII became heir to the throne after the death of his elder brother, Prince Arthur in 1502 and succeeded in 1509 ( The British Monarchy, pg.1 ).King Henry VIII was very intelligent and often was described as a man of many words, and very religious. In King Henry VIII's reign, he wrote a book that attacked Martin Luther and supported the Roman Catholic Church, which had become a best seller ( The British Monarchy, pg.1 ). In 1521, King Henry VIII was given the title of Defender of the Faith, by the Pope ( The British Monarchy, pg.1 ). In the year of 1509, King Henry VIII married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). King Henry VIII's wife, Catherine had only produced one living child, a girl who was named Princess Mary ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). Princess Mary was born in 1516 ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). King Henry VIII's wife was in her forties in the 1520s and he was very desperate for a son ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). The Tudor dynasty had been established by conquest in 1485 while King Henry VIII was only it's second monarch ( The British Monarchy, pg.2). At this time, England had not had a ruling Queen, and the dynasty was not secure enough to run the risk of handling the Crown on to a woman, which was risking disputed secession or domination of a foreign power through marriage ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). When King Henry VIII had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn, which was the sister of one of his many mistresses, he had tried to persuade the Pope to grant him an annulment of his marriage on the grounds that the marriage had never been legal ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). By pressuring the Pope, and getting someone he had known to become an Archbishop to help his situation and to hopefully persuade the church and pope, his marriage was declared invalid and Anne Boleyn was crowned queen a week later ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). In May of 1533, Queen Anne had married King Henry ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). In May of 1533 Queen Anne married King Henry VIII and the Pope had responded with excommun ication ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). In an act in restraint of appeals forbade appeals to Rome, stating that England was an empire, governed by one supreme head and king who possessed ?whole and entire' authority within the realm, and that no judgments or excommunication's in Rome were valid ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). The breach between the King and the Pope forced clergy, office-holders and others to choose their allegiance, the most famous being Sir Thomas More, who was executed for treason in 1535 ( The British Monarchy, pg.2 ). King Henry VIII's second marriage, which had risen hopes of having a male heir were failed when she produced a daughter who was named Princess Elizabeth. Once Queen Anne had the daughter, King Henry VIII charged her on charges of treason and she was executed ( The British Monarchy, pg.3 ). In 1537, King Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, who finally bore him a son. The son that Jane Seymour bore him, was named Edward VI, unfortunately 12 days after his birth, Queen Jane died, the year was 1537. After the death of Queen Jane, King Henry VIII married Anne Cleves ( The British Monarchy, pg.4 ). Later, King Henry VIII was married twice more, to Katherine Howard and Catherine Parr, both were killed ( The British Monarchy, pg.4 ). Neither of the two wives had produced a child, and King Henry VIII died on the 28th of January in 1547 ( The British Monarchy, pg.4 ). Elizabeth I was born on the 7th of September in 1533, and was the last of the Tudor monarch ( The British Monarchy, pg.5 ). Her chances of succeeding to the throne were very slim since she had a half-brother, Edward, and her were behind the