... reason why Henry though that his marriage was a sin. In 1533, Henry's mistress, Anne Boleyn got pregnant and he was determinate to divorce from Catherine. "What Henry wanted was a papal pronouncement that the dispensation of 1509 was in error, that the marriage to Catherine had been invalid from the beginning, and that the king was therefore in an unmarried state ... 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...

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