WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Henry VIII of England married six queens, imprisoned and beheaded people, and is responsible for creating the Anglican Church. What did the reformers of the Anglican Church come to be called? The reformers of the Anglican Church came to be called Puritans.

Detailed explanation-2: -Henry VIII succeeded where his predecessors had failed. He broke England free of papal control once and for all and established the Anglican Church with the King at its head, not the Pope. This process did not take place overnight, nor was it accomplished by Royal decree.

Detailed explanation-3: -He divorced two of his wives (Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn), he beheaded two of his wives (Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard), and one of his wives (Jane Seymour) died shortly after giving birth. His last wife, Catherine Parr, outlived him.

Detailed explanation-4: -Henry’s driving desire for a male heir was to lead him to divorce two wives and have two wives beheaded: it led to religious revolution and the creation of the Church of England, the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Reformation. The decisions that Henry made during his reign were to shape modern Britain.

Detailed explanation-5: -Henry VIII was the king of England (1509–47). He broke with the Roman Catholic Church and had Parliament declare him supreme head of the Church of England, starting the English Reformation, because the pope would not annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

Detailed explanation-6: -Once titled “defender” of the Catholic church, Henry’s personal circumstances would drive him to break his Catholic ties and found the Church of England.