[squirel900]

hi i need help with the kings great matter can ugive me a link or some inf0 about thepeople who agreed and disagreed with king henrys divorce!
ahhhh
jamie xoxox

Edited by Mr S Drew to remove personal e-mail address.

Do not put your e-mail address or any personal contact details in your posts. This is to protect all young people from any possible problems.

[Mr Field]

As Mr Drew says, a pity you didn't read the rules.

For your answer this is quite a broad and complex question. Most of Europe debated the issue - Henry even encouraged this.

If this is a topic you are studying in Year 8, you should hopefully have been given a little more guidance than just this. There is a basic, but quite useful guide here:
http://www.burbage-jun.leics.sch.uk/tudors.../rome_split.htm

If you are after a more in-depth coverage of the debate, you should explore the different websites listed here:
http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spiri...an_Reformation/

Yet make sure you have a look through at least a few of these - only looking at one would mean you haven't covered all the different opinions and ideas.

[Mrs Faithorn]

Also, if you read this piece of work by a Year 8 student carefully you will be able to pick out the names of particular people who did and didn't agree with Henry's divorce.

[Sassie]

hi im sassie

wanting help with my history homework for the 12th

my question is why did henry fail to get a divorce?

please please help me .........................

[MrJohnDClare]

Because in 1527 the forces of Charles V of Spain (Katherine of Aragin's nephew) sacked Rome, and Pope Clement DAREDN'T annoy Charles by giving Henry a divorce.
Strange to think that otherwise the divorce would have gone through quietly and England would have remained a Roman Catholic country!

Of course, in the end, Henry declared independence from the Roman Catholic Church, made himself Head of the Church in England, and gave himself a divorce so, strictly, he didn't fail to get a divorce.

For more detail, start with http://www.historyle...reformation.htm
then go to http://en.wikipedia....VIII_of_England

[Maddy]

Hi! does any1 no why henry the 8th broke with the catholic church?
Fank u!

[MrJohnDClare]

Four reasons:
1. He wanted to divorce his wife and marry another woman and the RC Church wouldn;t et him.
2. He was annoyed that the monks and priests paid allegiance (and taxes) to the Pope, and he wanted that power (and money).
3. There was a growing English natioalism which said - 'hey, why should we do as the Pope says?'.
4. The RC Church at that time WAS pretty corrupt and needed reforming.

Note however that Henry was NOT a Protestant when he broke from the Pope - he remained a Catholic; he just dropped the 'Roman' part of it.

Try http://www.greenfield.durham.sch.uk/H_HWK/...igion_Henry.htm
read the text and follow the links.

This is a bit harder: http://www.historyle.../break_rome.htm

[atomic-ALICE[tm].]

Henry VIII wanted to divorce his wife and then marry another woman, but the Catholic church didn't allow him, so he broke with the Catholic church!

[Mr Moorhouse]

I make my classes endure this very naff video in which they have to spot 7 reasons.

[Miss Buxton]

Mr Moorhouse, on Oct 28 2007, 09:49 PM, said:

I make my classes endure this very naff video in which they have to spot 7 reasons.

What a wonderful video Mr Moorhouse! I'd love to show my Y8 students that!

[eliza272]

hello

this is my first time using this
could you help answer this question please
this is not for home work
i am ill and bored and want to do something educational

Why did henry VIII believe he had the right to get a divorce and why did the pope not grant it?


thank you

[MrJohnDClare]

Henry married Katherine of Aragon because he was told to. His father wanted an alliance with Spain. He had got it by marrying his eldest son Arthur to KoA, but thenArthur had got TB and died. KoA was still kicking around in England, so they did the obvious thing and - since the marriage between Arthur and KoA had not been consummated (ie she was still a virgin) - married her to Henry.

The reason he wanted rid of KoA was because he needed a male heir and KoA could not give him one. She got pregnant 17 times, but not one of them lived.
(He had also fallen for Anne Boleyn, but I really do believe that was a secondary factor.)
So alot of the reasons he gave for getting rid of KoA were a case of just saying anything until something worked. The idea that henry put most emphasis on was his claim that KoA's marriage to Arthur HAD been consummated, that he had therefore married his dead borther's wife (which was forbidden in the Bible). That was why, he said, his marriage was cursed.

The Pope would normally have garnedt a request like that without a thought BUT KoA was the aunt of the humongously-powerful Charles V, King of Spain AND Holy Roman Emperor. In 1525 (check the date - I'm just doing it from memory), Charles had conquered Rome, sacked the city, and had the Pope virtually under house arrest. Pope Clement took one look at the troops outside and decided he's rather upset Henry than Charles.

It was Cromwell and Cranmer who suggested that, if Henry made himself head of the Church, he could give himself a divorce.