Break from rome

• before the break from rome

  • catherine was 5 years older than henry
  • pope julius II issues papal dispensation
  • 1525 henry emamoured with anne bolyen
  • catherine was too oldfor childbearing
  • henry had an illegitimate son called henry with bessie blount
  • heryn started to seek an annulment
• first stratergy for the break from rome

  • dispensation by Julius II insufficent law
  • henry appealed directly in the holy see
  • leviticus 18:16 - thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of they brothers wife
  • leviticus 20:21 - if a man shall take his brothers wife it is an unclean thing they shall be childless
• 1527 events

  • henry was summond to cardinal wolsey palace in westminster
  • the issues of heny relations with his brothers widow was to be the subject of offical pronouncments
  • several experts in cannon law were consulted in Bishop fisher
  • much to the kings chargin they overwhelmingly held that henrys marriage to his brothers widow but not violate gods law
• pope clement vii

  • stalling- dosent want to make a desision
  • didnt want to undermine the papancy
  • charles V- holy roman emperor - catherine of aragon nephew
  • one last effort to argue that julius ii despensation technical defects
  • strain relations between henry and wolsey
• stratergy 2 for break from rome: bring the court to england

  • cardinal campeggio - delayed due to age and illness
  • boleyn faction blamed wolsey
  • wolsey started the proccedings by saying all bishops agree but bishop fisher didnt sign a petition
• stratergy 3: catherine of aragon

  • deuteromny 25:5 'a mans obligation to his brothers widow, namelym that he must marry her and raise up children that his dead brother name consitue
  • 31 may 1529
  • catherine publicly appealed to henry
  • court dragged on until cardinal campegio the papal legate ajourned the court for the summer
  • tried to persuade her by make catherine uncomfortable and stop her from seeing her daughter
  • tried to send her to a nunnery
• wolsey part of break from rome

  • collapse of anti habsburg policy
  • failure of annulment
  • bolyen faction
  • out of control
• the end of wolsey

  • praemuire - using religous role to meddle in english
  • stripped of power and possesion
  • exiled to york
  • 1530- futher charges
  • 29 november died on way to london
• wolsey and henry relations

  • master and servent
  • only had control when henry sactioned it
  • power only on goodwill of henry
  • didnt have full respect of nobility