Reformation Ideas Spread
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The English Reformation
1.Background
a) People sought reform as early as 1300
b) Reformer were persecuted and sometimes killed
c) Henry VIII(Tudor Dynasty) was firmly agaisnt the Protestant Reformation
-Service in fighting protestantism he was awarded "Defender of Faith" by the Pope
2. Break with Rome
a) Henry wanted an annulment(kind of a divorve but approved by the church... regular divorce is a church sin and people were usually excommununicated) from his wife of 18 years.
- She gave Henry only one daughter (Mary Tudor)
- Henry felt that he needed a male heir
b) Henry asked the Pope to annul his marraiage to Catherine
-The Pope refused