... pressure Pope Clement VII to announce that the king's previous marriage to Catherine of Aragon was null and voice through the Divine Law1. When Pope Clement refused because Pope Julius II had granted King Henry VIII dispensation to marry Catherine in the first place, Henry contemplated splitting from the church solely to fulfill his matrimonial plans. He was so in love ... her councilors were under no illusions that many of her subjects remained obstinately attached to the old ways. This caused Elizabeth to establish a new and improved Protestant church ruling through the Elizabethan In...

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