Henry_VIII_And_The_Church_Of_England

Henry VIII And The Church Of England King Henry VIII and the Church of England King Henry had various problems which included; the influence his seven wives had on the social order, his tyrannical reign of both politics and religion of the period, and his demonizing of the Church of England. It is easy enough for us, looking back; to see that King Henry's struggle to be the strong man of Europe was an expensive failure. It was not so easy for King Henry to see it, for he had lived splendidly and was surrounded by people who tried to please him. There was, on the other hand, one big failure, which nobody could conceal from him; he had not been able to get a legitimate son. The King’s Wives Catherine of Aragon had given him only a daughter, Mary. It was this failure, which led to the important events in King Henry VIII's reign. King Henry decided that he had to get rid of this wife. He had a political motive: it would be dangerous to leave the kingdom to a girl because, as most people then believed, ruling a kingdom needed the full strength of a man. He had a king, henry, church, england, pope, been, viii, one, monasteries, catherine, way, thomas, ross, made, catholic, tried, thought, people, parliament, men, king's, great, even, wolsey, took, religion, put, protestant, once, now, new, motive, monks, henry's, good