Tudor dynasty

Henry VIII was the son of Henry VII, he was a true model of the new renaissance man, we was athletic, cultured and a devoted Catholic. He wrote the “Defence of the seven Sacraments“( which was criticised by Martin Luther’s Protestant movemen. When his dad died in 1509, he became king and married Catherine of Aragon who gave him a daughter, Mary. Pertugerei that he had no male heir he asked pope Clement VII to annul his marriage who rejected the request. In 1533 he ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to annul the marriage ad to marry him with Anne Boleyn. With his act of supremacy the Church of England separates from the Church of Rome. Even after the second marriage he had a daughter, Elizabeth. So to marry another women he accused falsely of adultery, incest and treason and for this she was executed. Henry then married Jane Seymour, who gave him a male, Edward.

Henry Tudor that after the “War of the Roses” became king as Henry VII. Hé decided to marry Elizabeth of York to unite the two families. During his reign, he unified the nation and limited the power of the nobles making a very strong government that sometimes it’s called “The Tudor Despotism“.

Richard’s niece, Richard III sa the last king of the House of York.

When Henry VIII died in 1547, his nine years old son, Edward I, Bea came king, but after 6 years he dies.

She became a symbol of unity. She singed for two important acts: The “Act of Supremacy”, by which she established the Anglican Church and proclaimed herself its supreme governor; the “Act of Uniformity“ by which she compelled the clergy to use the English Prayer Book. To govern she used her dad’s method, the ‘middle way” that consist to avoid diving parties. Like her sister she was childless and for this she was known as the “Virgin Queen” because at that time a marriage corresponded to political alliance, so Elizabeth rejected them all to preserve her country from foreign domination. Elizabeth had am enemy, Mary Stuart descendent of Margaret Tudor, the elder daughter of Henry VII. She lived in France were she married the Dauphin, king of France, but when he died he returnee in Scottish were the second marriage of Henry VII was considered illegal so she, Mary Stuart, had to become queen. The story ended with Mary’s execution in 1587 because she was found guilty of treason. Her execution implicated a war with Spain.

Mary took his stepbrother place becoming the first women to be crowned monarch. She was really exterminated to return England to Roman Catholicism so she persecuted the Protestant which were sent to the stake and burned. After that she were nominated as Bloody Mary for her reputation. When she dies, childless, so without a heir, the Protestant came back to England and take the name of Puritans. .

Henry VIII was the son of Henry VII, he was a true model of the new renaissance man, we was athletic, cultured and a devoted Catholic. He wrote the “Defence of the seven Sacraments“( which was criticised by Martin Luther’s Protestant movemen. When his dad died in 1509, he became king and married Catherine of Aragon who gave him a daughter, Mary. Pertugerei that he had no male heir he asked pope Clement VII to annul his marriage who rejected the request. In 1533 he ordered the Archbishop of Canterbury to annul the marriage ad to marry him with Anne Boleyn. With his act of supremacy the Church of England separates from the Church of Rome. Even after the second marriage he had a daughter, Elizabeth. So to marry another women he accused falsely of adultery, incest and treason and for this she was executed. Henry then married Jane Seymour, who gave him a male, Edward.