Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Henry and his
ministers 1515-1540
- Wolsey
- Control of domestic policy
- Legal reforms
- Financial policy
- Control of the nobility
- Alter Rex?
- Disagreements show where true power was
- Amicable Grant 1525
- Appointment of Abbess in 1528
- Suggestion of attacking France in 1522
- Papal Legate
- Control of the Church
- Cromwell
- His skill in managing Parliament
- He piloted the Royal Supremacy through Parliament
- Laws passed that established the Royal Supremacy
- For example, The Act of Supremacy 1534
- Religion
- Cromwell advanced the Protestant agenda
- Dissolution of the monasteries
- Vicegerent in religious affairs
- Ten Articles 1536
- However, Six Articles in 1539 was much more conservative
- Shows Henry taking control?
- The fall from power of his chief ministers
- Henry dispensed of all of his leading ministers
- This shows where the power was in the relationship
- More
- He only agreed to be the chief minister if he had nothing to do with the divorce
- However, he was executed when he was found to be denying the Royal Supremacy
- Wolsey
- Failure to get the Divorce
- Cromwell
- Foreign policy failures
- Anne of Cleves
- Attacked by the Conservatives at Court
- Link to his religious policy
- Henry's attitude to government
- The contrast to Henry VII - he was not concerned with being involved with every detail
- His image as a Renaissance Prince
- Was far more interested in foreign policy
- This meant that his leading ministers normally had less control over foreign policy