Henry VIII: Religion

Religious policies between 1509 and 1547

When was Wolsey appointed Almoner?

1509

When was Wolsey appointed Archbishop of York?

1514

When was Wolsey appointed Cardinal and Lord Chancellor?

1515

When was Wolsey made Lord of the Privy Seal?

1516

When was Wolsey made Papal Legate?

1518

When did Henry and Wolsey publicly burn Lutheran texts?

1521

What was Henry VIII’s anti-lutheran book called and when was it published?

1Defence of the Seven Sacraments

2) 1521

What title did Henry earn from the Pope for writing Defence of the Seven Sacraments?

‘Defender of the Faith’

When did Wolsey fall from power and who replaced him as Lord Chancellor?

1) 1529

2) Thomas More

List some characteristics of Thomas Wolsey:

• Had rigid principles and put these before anything else

• Humanist

• Wrote Utopia

• Critical of the Catholic Church, but ruthless with heretics and reformers

When was Wolsey executed?

1530

When were the clergy accused and pardoned from praemunire?

1) 1530

2) 1531

When did Cromwell introduce the ‘Supplication Against the Ordinaries’ to deal with corruption in the clergy?

1532

When was the ‘Submission of the Clergy’?

1532

What financial act happened in 1532 which was consolidated in 1534?

The Act in Conditional Restraint of Annates

When did Henry marry Anne Boleyn?

1533

What Act followed Henry’s marriage in 1533?

The Act in Restraint of Appeals

When did Cromwell serve as the king’s chief minister?

1534 - 1540

When was the Act of Supremacy and what Act followed to enforce it?

1) 1534

2) Treasons Act

Who was the centre of a religious rising against Henry VIII and when was she executed?

1) Elizabeth Barton

2) 1534

When was the dissolution of Lesser Monasteries?

1536

When was the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Lincolnshire Rising?

1536

What were the grievances of the rebels at the Lincolnshire rising/Pilgrimage of Grace?

• The dissolution of the monasteries

• The King’s reformist advisors (particularly Cromwell)

• Intrusion of government into local matters

• The rejection of Catherine of Aragon/Brief rule of Anne Boleyn

• Taxes

• Bad harvest of 1535

What were the demands of the pilgrimage of grace, as laid out in the Commons’ Petition?

• The destruction of works by protestant reformers

• For Henry to resign as head of the Church

• For Henry to hold a parliament at Nottingham or York

• For the smaller monasteries/religious houses to be reinstated

• Princess Mary to be made legitimate

Who led the Pilgrimage of grace?

Robert Aske

How many rebels were in the Pilgrimage of grace?

30,000-40,000

Who pacified the pilgrims?

Duke of Norfolk

What were the Henry’s failed promises in the Pilgrimage of Grace?

• The promise to call a parliament at york

How many rebels were executed after the uprising led by Sir Francis Bigod?

178

When was Aske executed?

12 July, 1537

When was the dissolution of Greater Monasteries?

1539

When was the Ten Articles and who was its probable author?

1) 1536

2) Thomas Cranmer

When were the Injunctions and the Bishop’s Book?

• The Injunctions were in 1536 and 1538

• The Bishop’s Book was in 1537

When was the Bible 1st published in English?

1537

When was Henry excommunicated by the pope?

1538

What document pushed England back to Catholicism in the late 1530s, and when was it published?

1) Act of Six Articles

2) 1539