HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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Henry wanted England to become a Protestant nation.
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Henry wanted to remove the pope as head of the Church.
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The pope refused to annul Henry’s marriage and allow him to remarry.
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The pope was angry about England’s defeat of the Spanish armada.
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Detailed explanation-1: -However, Henry formally broke with the Pope and the Roman Church after Pope Clement VII refused to grant him an annulment of his marriage to Katherine of Aragon so that he could wed Anne. His appeal for an annulment was on the grounds that their union contravened the scriptures, citing Leviticus 20.
Detailed explanation-2: -Catherine had previously been married to Henry’s older brother Arthur Tudor, which Henry used as an argument for an annulment through an interpretation of the bible, that “if a man marries his brother’s wife, the couple will be childless”.
Detailed explanation-3: -On this day in Tudor history, 15th November 1532, a rather cross Pope Clement VII threatened King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn with excommunication.