11.5 Edward and Mary

Eclesia Anglicana

Anglican church created by Parliamentary Acts

Henry is only mildly

Protestant

Jane Seymour, r.1536-37

Henry’s protestant 3rd wife. Edward is born, and Jane dies of complications, but is in the Whitehall Mural to demonstrate legitimacy.

Third Act of Succession, 1544

Edward displaces Elizabeth and Mary

Edward VI, r.1546-53

Regent - Edward Seymour. Has issues with Scotland

Henry had expected Scotland to become Protestant, so he attacked this king, a Catholic married to a French woman (very Catholic)

James V

Battle of Solway Moss, 1542

James dies, his wife gave birth to a girl, Mary Queen of Scots, r. 1542-67

The Rough Wooing

Henry wanted Mary to wed Edward, and his regents continue this

Radical Attempts to Protestantize

Cranmer’s Book of Common Prayer, 1549

Act of Uniformity, 1549 - you have to use it. most important thing in making people Protestant.

Prayer Book Rebellion

military revolt in Wales over the Book of Common Prayer. Put down

Lady Jane Grey

was never crowned, but the daughter in law of his second regent, James Dudley, and considered queen by some protestants. People rebel for Mary, as the north remains Catholic

Mary I, r.1533-58

Bloody Mary. First Queen Regnant, rather than queen consort.

Wyatt’s Rebellion, 1554

attempt to put Elizabeth on the throne

Mary appoints Reginald Pole as ABC, and they reverse everything

Pope is dominant. Executes 300 protestants, including Cranmer in 1556

Mary weds King Philip II of Spain, causing these issues:

-England is dragged into war in France

-people are afraid he’ll annex England, which would pull England back into a Roman Catholic axis

the south is

protestant

Wales, West, and the North are

Catholics