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    Henry VII brought stability after the Wars of the Roses and faced Yorkist plots, while Renaissance ideas spread through scholars. Henry VIII broke with Rome over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, establishing himself as head of the Church of England. Edward VI continued the Protestant Reformation by making services in English and the Book of Common Prayer compulsory. Mary I tried to restore Catholicism and earned the name "Bloody Mary" by burning Protestants at the stake, before dying and leaving the throne to her sister Elizabeth.

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    Henry VII brought stability after the Wars of the Roses and faced Yorkist plots, while Renaissance ideas spread through scholars. Henry VIII broke with Rome over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, establishing himself as head of the Church of England. Edward VI continued the Protestant Reformation by making services in English and the Book of Common Prayer compulsory. Mary I tried to restore Catholicism and earned the name "Bloody Mary" by burning Protestants at the stake, before dying and leaving the throne to her sister Elizabeth.

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    Henry VII brought stability after the Wars of the Roses and faced Yorkist plots, while Renaissance ideas spread through scholars. Henry VIII broke with Rome over his divorce from Catherine of Aragon and married Anne Boleyn, establishing himself as head of the Church of England. Edward VI continued the Protestant Reformation by making services in English and the Book of Common Prayer compulsory. Mary I tried to restore Catholicism and earned the name "Bloody Mary" by burning Protestants at the stake, before dying and leaving the throne to her sister Elizabeth.

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    THE RENAISSANCE AND THE PURITAN AGE

    HISTORY AND CULTURE


    THE EARLY TUDORS

    HENRY VII (1485-1509)


    He became the first Tudor King of England, after the end of the Wars of the Roses in 1485.
    He introduced high taxes and banned nobles from raising their own armies. However he had to
    face several yorkist plots against him.
    During his reign Erasmus of Rotterdam brought the Humanism of the Renaissance to the
    universities of Oxford and Cambridge, while the scholar Sir Thomas More, the author of Utopia
    moved England closer to Northern European thought and the origins of Protestantism. His policy
    was very cautious, and when he died in 1509, he left England economically stable and at peace
    with France and Scotland.

    HENRY VIII (1509-47)


    He succeded his father at the age of 18 and married Catherine of Aragon. He was very interested in
    theology and went against Martin Luther after he nailed his anti-Catholic theses to the door of
    Wittenberg Castle Church in 1517. In fact Henry wrote an attack on Luther which won him the title
    of Defender of the faith from the pope.
    But when the Pope refused to declare his first marriage invalid, as Catherine had only given him a
    daughter, Mary, failing to deliver a male heir, Henry broke with Rome, divorced Catherine and in
    1533, married a pregnant Anne Boleyn, who gave birth to a girl, Elizabeth.
    Thanks to the Act of Supremacy, Henry declared himself the Supreme Head of the Church of
    England and extended his religious revolution to Wales and Ireland. All the religious powers were
    the joined in the figure of the monarch.
    Thomas Cromwell, the king’s chancellor, suppressed 400 small monasteries and confiscated their
    lands and money. Anne Boleyn was imprisoned on charges of treason and executed in 1536.
    Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, who gave him a son, Edward who died in childbirth. Henry had
    three more wives. The sixth one, Catherine Parr gave him Prince Edward and Princess Elizabeth.

    EDWARD VI (1547-53)
    He was only 9 years old when his father died. During his reign, as a consequence of the Protestant
    Reformation, religious services were held in English instead of Latin,and the Book of Common
    Prayer, became compulsory with the Act of Uniformity, helping the development of the English
    language. He died in 1553 and was succeeded by his Protestant cousin, Lady Jane Grey, who after
    nine days was taken prisoner to the Tower of London thanks to a Catholic plot.

    MARY I (1553-58)
    She was Henry VIII’s daughter by his first wife, declared herself queen and wanted to restore
    Catholicism in England. She married Philip II of Spain in 1554.
    Her Counter-Reformation brought the restoration of Catholic rituals and heresy laws. She earned
    the name of Bloody Mary because she gave the Protestant Church about 300 martyrs by burning
    them at the stake. In 1558 she fell ill and left the throne to her sister Elizabeth.

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