... the late 1520s Henry was starting to question not only his marriage, but the Church that had sanctioned it. According to Cardinal Campeggio, Henry VIII asked him to 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. ... practice. Furthermore, after the death of King Henry VIII, Parli...

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... , and that the king was therefore in an unmarried state, free to take a wife whenever he chose"ii.That's the driven force and the beginning of the English Reformation. Clement VII, then Pope, was under the power of Charles of Spain. Charles was Catherine's nephew and, therefore the pope had to please Charles and refused to Henry's petition. Nevertheless, Henry ... years before her execution for infidelity in May 1536 and to Henry's chagrin Anne gave him another daughter. Later Anne was replaced by Jane Seymour, who gave birth to Edward VI, Henry's heir. Nevertheless, it was her daughter...

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