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    Lust Greed Power or Religion? Why did Henry break with Rome in 1634? Henry broke with Rome for many different reasons‚ to begin with was that the Pope wouldn’t let him annul his marriage with Catherine. He only wanted this because he was in love with Anne Boleyn. Another reason was that he was greedy for money because he had lead an extravagant lifestyle and didn’t want to give that up. He was convinced that if he were head of the church he would get incomes from tithes and taxes. He also broke

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    after her son was born. Henry’s fourth wife was Anne of Cleves. Henry thought she was beautiful but it wasn’t true. She was ugly and he decided to divorce her. Catherine Howard was his fifth wife. Henry thought she was cheating on him because people saw her meeting up with other men. He blamed her for lying and had her beheaded. Catherine Parr was his sixth and last wife. She always helped him when he was ill. She also looked after Henry’s three children. King Henry died on 16th February in 1547

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    criticism given to him by a protestant called Martin Luther. But this all changed when him and the pope had a fight about the divorce over Henry VIII and Catherine Of Aragon who failed to give him the son that he wanted to please his dead father with. The pope refused to accept the divorcement with Henry because the holy roman emperor was related to Catherine and refused to let the pope let him divorce her as Charles controlled the pope. Henry had had enough and had an idea that he could make himself the

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    The Spanish-English marriage alliance of Catherine of Aragon and Prince Arthur was arranged when the children were very young. Catherine traveled to England only to face tragedy when her young husband‚ Arthur died in 1502.Henry VII wanted to marry Catherine to his younger son‚ who would be‚ Henry VIII so that he did not lose the dowry money from Catherine’s parents and to secure some other agreements between the two countries. In the Catholic Church‚ it was forbidden to marry the wife of a deceased

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    Beaufort‚ was born in 1457. He married Elizabeth of York in 1486‚ who bore him four children: Arthur‚ Henry‚ Margaret and Mary. He died in 1509 after reigning 24 years. Henry descended from John of Gaunt‚ through the latter’s illicit affair with Catherine Swynford; although he was a Lancastrian‚ he gained the throne through personal battle. The Lancastrian victory at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 left Richard III slain in the field‚ York ambitions routed and Henry proclaimed king. From the onset

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    England from 1509 to 1547 and he was the second monarch of the House of Tudor. He had married Catherine of Aragon in 1510 and after sixteen years only one daughter had survived: Mary (born 1516). By 1526 he was absolutely concerned about the birth of a male heir because it was unthinkable for him to be succeeded by a queen. He tried to persuade the pope to make the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. He justified the reasons for this annulment in biblical texts: marriage with a brother’s

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    downfall. In this essay I will look how far this was the main reason for his collapse from power. Wolsey’s fall corresponded with the fact that he could not get a divorce from the pope. Henry desperately wanted a son and argued that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon‚ with whom he had a daughter‚ was not lawful. He asked Wolsey to use his influence in Rome to get a papal annulment of Henry’s marriage so that he could remarry. Only the Pope could dissolve marriages‚ nevertheless Wolsey was confident

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    and his six wives When Henry VIII became king he was 18. He danced and sang well. Everyone loved him. But he needed a son. His first wife - Catherine of Aragon - was Spanish. Catherine and Henry had a daughter‚ Mary. Henry wasn’t happy. He wanted a divorce*. The Church* in Rome said ‘no’. So Henry started the Church of England. Then he and Catherine divorced. Henry then married Anne Boleyn. She had a daughter‚ Elizabeth. But Anne was in love with her brother‚ and Henry heard about it. He

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    with Spain) a wife (Catherine of Aragon). This‚ however had to be approved by the Pope and was only approved because Catherine said‚ although she had been married to Arthur she had never slept with him and so the Pope said that because of that her and Arthur were never properly married and so in 1509 Henry and Catherine were wed (when he was 17) After around 20 years on the throne cracks were beginning to show in Henry’s marriage‚ finance and lead. One of which‚ was that Catherine bore him (after

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    During World War I‚ it was the accepted social norm that women belonged in the kitchen. They took the back seat to men‚ specializing in cooking and cleaning. They were the caretaker of the home and the raiser of the children. Catherine Barkley is an impeccable example of this social norm in Ernest Hemingway’s‚ A Farewell to Arms. Her submissive nature is key to the existence of the story. So important‚ in fact‚ that the story may not be at all possible without it. She submits to Lieutenant

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