The great matter

• how old was Cat in 1524

  39
• when did Henry start courting Anne Boleyn


  1526
• when did Henry ask Wolsey to get a papal dispensation

  1526
• how is the case for the annulment argued

  Leviticus - a man can't marry bro's widow - marriage to Cat in 1509 is invalid, Julius II shouldn't have allowed it
• league of cognac

  1526 - Wolsey helped organise this, but did not make England join it. Alliance of France, the pope, Venice and Florence against the Spanish
• sack of Rome

  May 1527
• treaty of Amiens

  Aug 1527

  anti-Imperial alliance with France, Anglo-French invasion of Charles

  shows defence of Pope

  angers Charles
• when is war declared on HRE

  Jan 1528
• when is the Burgundian trade embargo

  1528
• when does Wolsey accuse Henry of living in sin under a fake court

  May 1527
• what happens after the fake court

  Cat appeals to Pope
• when does Henry apply for a dispensation

  Sept 1527
• arrival of Cardinal Campeggio

  Oct 1528
• Blackfriars trial with Campeggio

  May - July 1529
• treaty of Cambrai

  Pope and HRE peace

  Aug 1529
• wolsey is charged with praemunire

  Oct 1529

  dies before his execution
• who becomes Lord Chancellor

  Sir Thomas More
• who helps with the annulment after Wolsey

  Thomas Cranmer
• Thomas Cranmer reward for annulment


  AB of C, 1532
• when does Cromwell emerge as chief minister

  1532
• supplication against the ordinaries and formal submission of the clergy

  March 1532

  May 1532
• supplication against the ordinaries

  Bishops can't pass canon law without King
• formal submission of clergy

  formal surrender of church's independent law-making function, linked to 1530 Praemunire charge
• what provokes More's resignation

  formal submission of clergy
• act in restraint of appeals

  1533
• act in restraint of appeals results

  Henry can't be challenged by foreign powers

  can't appeal to Rome on matters of matrimony

  power goes to Archbishops

  Cranmer annuls marriage
• secret marriage to Anne


  Jan 1533

  crowned queen in May
• birth of Eliza I

  sept 1533