Why Did Henry Break with Rome
Why did henry break with Rome?
In this essay, I’m going to explain why henry broke with Rome. This means that Henry made himself head of England. In the first few years, Henry didn’t mind the pope being the head of the church and Henry was even praised by the Pope for defending him from the criticism given to him by a protestant called Martin Luther. But this all changed when him and the pope had a fight about the divorce over Henry VIII and Catherine Of Aragon who failed to give him the son that he wanted to please his dead father with. The pope refused to accept the divorcement with Henry because the holy roman emperor was related to Catherine and refused to let the pope let him divorce her as Charles controlled the pope. Henry had had enough and had an idea that he could make himself the head of the church and then he can divorce himself. Henry had many reason of doing this and here are all the reasons.
After getting a divorce with Catherine of Aragon, Henry was desperately in need of a son to make his father happy and so he could take on his power when he died so got attracted to Anne Boleyn who also failed to give him a son. He wanted to be the head of the church so badly so then he could get a divorce with Catherine of Aragon and do whatever he likes to the women.
Henry had only just fought in a war against France. He used all his money to get the new weapons and swords. Henry used all the money on this and really needed money. At this time the church was rich because they took money off people for taxes. To Henry it looked easy to become the head of church to get this money but he was wrong, so he got parliament to help him and they did and he closed all the monasteries and took their money. He also became the head of the church.
Moreover the monks were becoming greedy and un-religious .They were stealing money from the church. He would get a bad reputation if he opened all the monasteries. He could not get involved with the monasteries because
In this essay, I’m going to explain why henry broke with Rome. This means that Henry made himself head of England. In the first few years, Henry didn’t mind the pope being the head of the church and Henry was even praised by the Pope for defending him from the criticism given to him by a protestant called Martin Luther. But this all changed when him and the pope had a fight about the divorce over Henry VIII and Catherine Of Aragon who failed to give him the son that he wanted to please his dead father with. The pope refused to accept the divorcement with Henry because the holy roman emperor was related to Catherine and refused to let the pope let him divorce her as Charles controlled the pope. Henry had had enough and had an idea that he could make himself the head of the church and then he can divorce himself. Henry had many reason of doing this and here are all the reasons.
After getting a divorce with Catherine of Aragon, Henry was desperately in need of a son to make his father happy and so he could take on his power when he died so got attracted to Anne Boleyn who also failed to give him a son. He wanted to be the head of the church so badly so then he could get a divorce with Catherine of Aragon and do whatever he likes to the women.
Henry had only just fought in a war against France. He used all his money to get the new weapons and swords. Henry used all the money on this and really needed money. At this time the church was rich because they took money off people for taxes. To Henry it looked easy to become the head of church to get this money but he was wrong, so he got parliament to help him and they did and he closed all the monasteries and took their money. He also became the head of the church.
Moreover the monks were becoming greedy and un-religious .They were stealing money from the church. He would get a bad reputation if he opened all the monasteries. He could not get involved with the monasteries because