Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The establishment of Royal Supremacy
- The King's Great Matter
- Catherine of argaon failure to provide Henry with a male heir worried him
- Henry chose to believe that becuase he had married his brother's
widow, that the married was cursed
- He had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn, which conviced him to seek an annument to marriage
- Anne was 15 years younger than Catherine and was likely to provide Henry with an heir
- The kind's great matter came to domiante England's domestic and diplomatic agenda from 1527 unitl 1534
- Pope had the power to annul the marriage but Clement VII was relcutant to do so
- 1) Catherine Of Aragon spirtied oppostion
- Catherine was advicsed and supported by respected scholars such as Bishop John Fisher of Rochester
- 2)International pressure brought to bear by Catherine's nephew Chalres V
- as king of Spain and Holy Roman Empire , Charles was the most powerful man in Europe
- His decision to support his aunt and oppose the annulmetn
however was due less to family loyalty and more to polictial
- 3) his predecessor's speical dispensation to allow Henry and Catherine to marry
- by granting the annulment Pope
Clement VI would have been
questioning the validity of
dispensation
- Strong Opposition, Cardinal Wolsey unwisely
promised Henry that could persuade the
Pope to issue a papal Bull to annul the
marriage
- Pope Clement did all he could to slow Wosley's progress
- After two years the pope agreed to hold a
legatine court in england to judge the
mertis of henry's case for annulment
- Cardinal Campeggio was appointed to
conduct the court at Blackfrairs in 1529
- The failure of the lgatine court to come to a deciison led to a stalemate and Wolsey's downfall
- The Royal Supremacy
- The next three years, pressure was brought to bear on the pope
- Besides obtaining support from some influential european universties
- Cranmer also drew up wth collectanea satis copisa
- which made the theological case for the leglity of the annulment
- The english clergy were browbeatn into submission
- In 1531, they were charged with preamunire
and forced to pay a huge fne of £100,000 to
escape punishemtn
- The supplication against the ordinaries 1532 accused bishops of abusing their power
- The king's great matter began to make substantial porgress under Cromwell's leadership
- Series of laws passed throught the reformation parliament between 1533&1534,
- Cromwell loosened the ties between england and rome
- The act in Restraint of annates and restraint of appeals broke rome 's financial and legal powers in england
- In 1534, the break with rome was completed when the act of suppremacy was passed
- The pope denied the pope's titles and status and instead recongised Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Chruch In England
- The establishment of the royal supremacy enabled Henry to govern the church as he saw it fit
- It led to some changes in the doctrine and to the dissolition of monasteires