Henry+VIII

=﻿Henry VIII= =Born: Greenwich Palace at June 1491=

=Father: Henry VII=

=Mother: Elizabeth of York=

=Reigned: 1509-1547=

=Died: 28 January 1547=

=Burial: St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle=

=House: House of Tudors=

=Henry had a very spoilt childhood as you might expect of a Royal Prince and he was young and handsome, people liked him, he married 6 wives, and in that time he was very fat because he stuffed his face with food. These are the names of the wives Katharine of Aragon,married Anne Bolyen in secret and had a girl called Elizabeth, Jane Seymour which had a son called Edward VI but she died when she gave birth, married Anne of Cleves but when Henry VIII met her she was so ugly that he divorced straight away, then Katharine Howard, and last of all is Katharine Parr which out-lived him and looked after Henry's children =

=When he became king at the age of 17 the county was catholic and was controlled by the pope in Rome, when the Pope would not let Henry divorce his first wife he made himself head of the church in England and gave the divorce he wanted. Later Henry closed all the monasteries and nunneries and took all the money from the Monks and the Nuns. He literally threw them on the streets to beg and gave their monasteries to his friends for fine houses. This happened with Titchfield Abby(in Titchfield, Fareham,Hampshire) which was given to Thomas Wriothesley, one of Henry's closest friend in 1537 and renamed Palace house.= = = = = =Edward VI= = = =Born: 12th October in Hampton Court Palace, middlesex= = = =Mother: Jane Seymour= = = =Father: Henry VIII of England= = = =Died: 6 July1553 (aged 15)Greenwich Castle= = = =Burial: 8th August Westminster Abby=

=House: House of Tudors=

=Edward VI was only nine years old when he became king because of his youth, he had two advisors. The first was his uncle, the Duke of Somerset, who became Lord Protector and for the first two and a half years of Edwards reign, Somerset advised and guided the young king. Somerset was replaced by the Duke of Northumberland. Both men wanted major changes made to England's religion. As a result of their advice and Edward's beliefs, Edward's reign is mainly remembered for the changes made to religion while he was king. Henry had removed the pope as head of the church in England, he had not changed a great deal. During Edward’s reign, major changes did occur.=

=It soon became clear that Edward was suffering from tuberculosis and would not live long. Northumberland was determined that his religious reforms should not be undone, so he persuaded Edward to approve a new order of succession. This declared Mary and passed the throne to Northumberland's daughter-in-law, Lady Jane Grey, who was a more distant descendant of Henry VIII. Edward died on 6 July 1553. However, Jane was only queen for a few days until, with overwhelming popular support, Mary took the throne and Edward VI died on his death bed.=

=Mary I=

=Mary was born at Greenwich on 18 February 1516, the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. Her life was changed when Henry divorced Catherine to marry Anne Boleyn. He claimed that the marriage was incestuous and illegal, as Catherine had been married to his dead brother, Arthur. The pope disagreed, resulting in Henry's break with Rome and the establishment of the Church of England.=

=On Edward's death in 1553, Jane was briefly queen. But Mary had widespread popular support and within days made a triumphal entry into London. Once queen, she was determined to re-impose Catholicism and marry Philip II of Spain. Neither policy was popular. Philip was Spanish and therefore distrusted, and many in England now had a interest in the prosperity of the Protestant church, having received church lands and money after Henry dissolved the monasteries.=

=n 1554, Mary crushed a rebellion led by Sir Thomas Wyatt. Making the most of her advantage, she married Philip, pressed on with the restoration of Catholicism and revived the laws against heresy. Over the next three years, hundreds of Protestants were burned at the stake. This provoked disillusionment with Mary, deepened by an unsuccessful war against France which led to the loss of Calais, England's last possession in France, in January 1558. Childless, sick and deserted by Philip, Mary died on 17 November 1558. Her hopes for a Catholic England died with her.=

=Elizabeth I=

====**Elizabeth was born in Greenwich on 7 September 1533, the only daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. When Elizabeth was two, Anne was beheaded for adultery on the orders of Henry, and Elizabeth was exiled from court. Her childhood was difficult, although she received a thorough Protestant education.** ==== = =

====**In 1553, Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary became queen. Mary was determined to re-establish Catholicism in England and viewed the Protestant Elizabeth as a direct threat, briefly imprisoning her in the Tower of London. When Elizabeth succeeded to the throne in 1558 one of her priorities was to return England to the Protestant faith and one of her greatest legacies was to establish and secure an English form of Protestantism. Elizabeth's reign also saw England significantly expand its trade overseas while at home, Shakespeare, Spenser and Marlowe were at the forefront of a renaissance in poetry and drama.** ==== ====**Catholic challenges and plots persisted through much of Elizabeth's reign. The focus of most of these was Elizabeth's cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots, a Catholic with a strong claim to the English throne, who sought exile in England in 1568. Elizabeth imprisoned her and she remained a prisoner for 20 years until Elizabeth was persuaded to agree to her execution in 1587.** ====

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