Henrician Factions

Reformist

Faction that wanted to introduce new religious ideas like Luther's

Conservative

Faction that emphasised seven sacraments, purgatory and salvation through good works

Calais

Cromwell failed to punish heretics here

Pope Paul III

Issued a Bull of excommunications on Henry VIII in 1538

Antwerp

Important to England for its cloth trade

Catherine Howard

Found guilty of adultery

Anne of Cleves

Henry's wife from a German state

Thomas Cromwell

Punished by an Act of Attainder

Francis I

King of France

Charles V

Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

Cromwell

Vice-gerent in charge of matters ecclesiastical and a reformist

Cranmer

Archbishop of Canterbury and a reformist

Gardiner

Bishop of Winchester and a conservative

Duke of Norfolk

The king's cousin and a conservative

Bible

Published in English in 1536

Act of Ten Articles

1536 Rejected 4/7 sacraments of the Catholic belief

Monasteries

Their dissolution started in 1536

Schmalkaldic League

Protestant alliance formed by Lutherans against the Holy Roman Empire.

John Lambert

Tried for heresy in 1538

Treaty of Nice

Ten year truce between Francis I and Charles V

Act of Six Articles

1539 Made Catholic beliefs obligatory in England