Religious Changes Henry VIII

Question 0

What did Henry feel was essential to secure a peaceful and strong progression and ensure the survival of the tudor dynasty?

Answer 0

A male heir

Question 1

What did Henry decide about his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, his brother Arthur’s wife?

Answer 1

That is was against the law

Question 2

Why did Henry desperately want a male heir?

Answer 2

• secure a peaceful and strong progression

- ensure survival of Tudor dynasty

Question 3

Why didn’t Henry like the idea of a Queen ruling?

Answer 3

Thought it would lead to disaster

Question 4

What was Henry convinced of by 1527?

Answer 4

His need to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon

Question 5

What did Henry become obsessed with?

Answer 5

The idea that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was, and always had been against God’s law

Question 6

What did the passage in Leviticus state?

Answer 6

“If a man shall take his brother’s wife…they shall be childless.”

Question 7

What did Henry feel he had done by marrying Catherine?

Answer 7

Sinned

Question 8

What did Henry feel that leaving his daughter to succeed him would lead to?

Answer 8

Political anarchy and instability

Question 9

What can Anne Boleyn be considered as?

Answer 9

Historical prime cause number one for the reformation

Question 10

What did Henry see a divorce as?

Answer 10

The answer to all of his problems

Question 11

When did Henry VIII ask Pope Clement VII for an annulment?

Answer 11

1527

Question 12

When did Holy Roman Emperor Charles V sack Rome?

Answer 12

May 1527

Question 13

What happened to Pope Clement VII in May 1527?

Answer 13

He was taken prisoner by Charles V

Question 14

Why did Pope Clement VII’s imprisonment in 1527 severely limit his ability to negotiate a settlement with HVIII?

Answer 14

Charles V was Catherine of Aragon’s nephew and he was in no position to agree to HVIIIs divorce to his aunt

Question 15

Why didn’t Charles V want to accept Henry’s divorce from his aunt?

Answer 15

He wanted to keep the peace and didn’t want to bring shame upon the family

Question 16

What did Anne Boleyn give to henry in 1530?

Answer 16

William Tyndale’s book: ‘On The Obedience of a Christian Man’

Question 17

What did Tyndale’s book state?

Answer 17

That the Pope’s writ dod not run in England

Question 18

Seeing as the Pope had failed to agree to HVIIIs divorce, what was the only way to get the divorce which Henry thought the country needed for future security?

Answer 18

By ending Papal jurisdiction in England and transfer the ability to deal with such matters to the King and his ministers.

Question 19

When was the Reformation Parliament called?

Answer 19

1529

Question 20

What was the Reformation Parliament of 1529 used for?

Answer 20

To put pressure on the Pope to grant a divorce.

Question 21

What did an anti clerical group of MPs within the Reformation Parliament do?

Answer 21

Set up a committee to put forward measures which were designed as attacks on the clergy

Question 22

What was laid against some of the clergy in 1530?

Answer 22

Praemunire

Question 23

When Convocation met in 1531 to deal with the attacks, what did they agree on?

Answer 23

They agreed to pay Henry off and accept that he was ‘The Supreme Head of Church’ in England and Wales.

Question 24

What would the anti clerical feelings of the parliament be used for?

Answer 24

To destroy the independence of the church

Question 25

How did Henry manage to threaten the pope?

Answer 25

Through statutes and by showing that the people who counted in the kingdom were behind him

Question 26

What happened when parliament met in 1532?

Answer 26

They were angered. Under Cromwell's guidance they attacked harshly upon the church and papacy.

Question 27

What was the Supplication against the Prdinates 1532?

Answer 27

An attack on the church's independent laws and the courts in particular.

Question 28

What was the church becoming?

Answer 28

Less and less independent

Question 29

What did Cromwell and the king call for?

Answer 29

An undivided allegiance, meaning people had to choose between their King or the Pope.

Question 30

What did Convocation do in 1532?

Answer 30

Surrendered to the King by accepting his demands in a document called 'Submission of the Clergy'

Question 31

What did the Conditional Restraint of Annates Act of 1532 do?

Answer 31

Suspended the Pope receiving one third of the episcopacy's income.

Question 32

What was the Conditional Restraint of Annates Act a form of?

Answer 32

Economic blackmail

Question 33

Clement did not surrender, and he threatened to do what?

Answer 33

Excommunicate Henry if he went on with the divorce

Question 34

Therefore with these laws what did the King manage to do?

Answer 34

Claim supremacy over the church in england and wales and abolished one of the Pope's main sources of income.

Question 35

Why did the divorce need to be rushed?

Answer 35

Anne Boleyn was pregnant

Question 36

What was the Act in restraint of Appeals 1533?

Answer 36

Forebode appeals from English Church Courts to Rome

Question 37

What did the Act in restraint of appeals include?

Answer 37

Marital appeals, meaning Catherine of Aragon could not appeal to the pope regarding the divorce

Question 38

What did the act in restraint of appeals 1533 mean?

Answer 38

That appeals now went to the king

Question 39

What did the act in restraint of appeals allow?

Answer 39

It allowed henry to get his divorce.

Question 40

What was the Fruit and Tenths act of 1534?

Answer 40

Higher taxes on the clergy. The crown's income increased by about 40%

Question 41

What was the succession act of 1534?

Answer 41

The crown would go to the children on Henry and Anne, and not to Mary who was now illegitimate.

Question 42

What was the Act of Supremacy of 1534?

Answer 42

It fixed Henry's rights in a statute. "Justly and rightfully and ought to be supreme head of church."

Question 43

What year were the ten Articles?

Answer 43

1536

Question 44

What were the Ten Articles?

Answer 44

The seven sacraments of Catholic doctrine were rejected, leaving a belief in 3: baptism, Eucharist and penance. A clear move towards Protestantism

Question 45

What was the Bishops' Book of 1537?

Answer 45

The four lost sacraments were rediscovered but of lesser value

Question 46

What did the Bishops' Book emphasise?

Answer 46

The authority of scriptures. God's word is what's important not the Church's analysis.

Question 47

Why was the English Bible of 1537 a huge change for people?

Answer 47

It was extremely Protestant. | People could now analyse God's word for themselves for the first time without relying on the Church's analysis.

Question 48

Who was the. King persuaded by in 1536 to allow he English Bible?

Answer 48

The secret Protestants, Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer

Question 49

What were the clergy ordered to do four times a day?

Answer 49

Preach in the people's language, they now understood what was being said.

Question 50

What were the 6 Articles of 1539?

Answer 50

A radical shift in doctrine. Confirmed transubstantiation Banned marriage of priests

Question 51

What is supposedly the main reason for the 6 Articles?

Answer 51

Henry's fear that a campaign had been launched by Catholic powers against England.