challenges to henry

• Aragonese faction


  • Small group of Nobles and Gentry
  • Rise of Cromwell and the berlin's largely silence this faction at court
  • Henry Courtney and lord Darcy in Hussey where a big part of it
• Clergy


  • Bishop John Fisher of Rochester
  • Publicly supported Catherine of Aragon
  • When the pope wanted to make him cardinal after walls his death Henry execute Fisher for treason
  • Henry reviewed as a tyrant
• Monastic


  • Individual monks rather than the entire group
  • Bishop's higher up within the clergy where paid off earlier and accepted the dissolution
  • More organized response several London monks refused to accept the divorce
• Thomas moore


  • Refused to take the oath of succession outlined in the successor act of 1534
  • Apparently overheard in prison that he did not support Henry as the head of the church
  • Executed sick for July 1535
• Elizabeth baron


  • Ordinary servant girl to a religious visionary in 1525
  • Richard master the local priest reported to William Warham
  • Shortly after Barton was examined one of her religious predictions came true
  • Barton prophesied about Henry and Anne that he would lose his Kingdom within a month and should die villains death
  • In 1533 examined by Thomas cramner rumors of sexual misconduct with priest
  • In January 1534 Elizabeth Barton and 13 of her supporters were accused of treason by a bill of attainer
  • On the 20th of April 1534 Elizabeth Barton and her accomplices were executed at Tybrun Gallows
• Margaret plangenet


  • Sister to the Earl of Warwick who was executed in 1499
  • In and out of favor at court
• Reignold pole


  • Initially had the support of Henry the 8th
  • Offered to be the Archbishop of York if he supported the annulment
  • He went into exile in 1532 in Italy as he didn't support the annulment but knew he wouldn't be safe in England
  • 1536 he wrote policies against Henry the 8
  • Pope Paul the third put him in charge of helping provide assistant to the Pilgrimage of Grace
• Marquess of exeter


  • Benefited from the dissolution of monasteries
  • Wide supported Elizabeth Barton and Catherine of Aragon
  • 1538: Henry Lord Montague countess of salisbury and Courtney arrested on charges of treason
  • Writing to cardinal Pole led to the Exeter conspiracy
  • Courtney was beheaded with a sword on Tower Hill on 9th of December 1538 with Henry Lord Montague
• Margaret of salisbury


  • As part of the evidence for the bill of attainder Port against Margaret Thomas Cromwell produced a tunic bearing the five wounds of christ
  • 65 years of age when brought to a tower in 1539
  • Spent two years in the Tower of London
  • In the 1541 revolt in Yorkshire against Henry's role he seiled Margaret fate
  • 27th of May 1541 he was executed