topic 7

• 1533

  catherine of aragon banished from court
• 1533 may


  the marriage of catherince and henry declared null and void
• 1533 june

  anne bolyen crowned queen at westminister abbey
• 1534 april

  elizabeth barton executed
• 1535 may/june

  carthusian monks executed
• 1535 june


  john fisher executed
• july 1535


  thomas more executed
• the collectanea statis capisa

  cranmer produced this which sought to prove that english bishops had the right to pronounce on henrys divorce without reference to rome. ''the sufficiently abundant collections'' of 1530 was a collection of historical documents complied to prove that kings of england had no superiors on earth.
• eustace chapuys 


  ambassador in england to catherines nephew charles v . not only advised catherine and enabling her to maintain links to the imperial court, but also court politics
• sir thomas more


  appointed chancellor by henry in 1529, apart of the aragonese faction
• see


  this was the area for which a bishop was responsbile
• prerogative

  a right based on customary law rather than statute law
• statute

  an act of parliament
• elizabeth barton

  in 1532 she prophesied that henry would divorce catherine he would die shortly afterwards. no action was taken at first but then only a prolonged campaign to ruin her reputation gave henry the opportunity to try her for treason. alleged that she confessed to making up her visions, she was hanged in tyburn, 1534
• pentecost

  the day when the followers of jusus christ had received the holy spirit
• te duem

  an early christian hymn of praise; the first time is 'o god we praise thee. we acknowledge thee to be the lord'
• bishop john fisher


  became the chief supporter of catherine of aragon and stated that would be prepared to die rather than see the marriage dissolved. 1532 fisher spoke openly against the divorce ,and shortly after the secret marriage he was arrested. in 1534 a bill of attainder was lodged against fisher for his support of elizabeth barton. it was, however, his refusal to swear the oath of attainder was that fisher was ordered to be hung, drawn and quatered at tyburn. only a public outcry against the barbarity of treating a bishop so brutally resulted in his being beheaded in june 1535
• tyburn


  the gallows which were located at Tyburn, the site today of marble arch in london, were sited at a crossroads of two major in london. the rotting corpses left there was intended to serve as a example and to deter others who might be planning crimes or undertaking treasonable behaviour.