HST 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Thomas Cranmer, Foreign Body, Book Of Leviticus
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Problem: wasn"t very fertile: marriage 1: catherine of aragon (spanish princess) daughter of. They married 1509-10, but by the mid-1520s they only had one child. He desperately needs a male heir: henry wants an annulment! Only the pope can grant this: henry was now in love with anne boleyn (while having an affair with her older sister!) However, anne wouldn"t sleep with him unless she was queen: 1520s: rome and the pope were occupied by the troops of the. Holy roman emperor leaving the pope basically the prisoner of the emperor charles v. funny enough, charles v is isabella"s nephew! Cromwell (star in the civil service) advise henry to use legal means in england: they cut off any appeal to a foreign body: all appeals from, archbishop of canterbury is now the head of the church of. English courts could not be heard by any foreign body. Henry vii marries anne . whoops, she was already pregnant.
