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heat content VIII began his reign as a leal Catholic, accepting the pontiff as
head of the Church. The Pope even gave henry the title,
Defender of the Faith. This was a reward for
writing a book that defended the Pope against
criticism from a German meliorist called
Martin Luther.
However, topics did not stay the same - Henry VIII and the
Pope had a quarrel. It was over Henrys marriage to
Catherine of Aragon. In 1527, Henry asked the Pope to
free him from the marriage.

Sources suggest there were versatile rea boys ...
Good wife though she was, Catherine of Aragon had failed in her primary
function, to provide Henry with a healthy male heir. It had not been for lack
of trying. She had borne her first impair in January 1510. It had been a
daughter, still-born. Within a class she produced a son but then the child had
sickened and died. 1513 saw the birth of some other boy, and 1514 yet another,
but neither survived. In the same year Catherine was delivered prematurely
of a fourth son, still-born. Not until 1516 did she produce a examine child, and
then it was a girl, christened Mary. There were several more pregnancies, but
no son came, and before long Catherines pregnancies ceased.

SOURCE A:
Robert Lacy: The
Life and Times of
King Henry VIII,
1972

onwards Henry, Catherine had been married to Henrys
elder brother, Arthur.



He died when he was 14 and
Henry married his brothers widow. However, Henry
later find bible passages that worried him:

SOURCE B:
Scarisbrick,
Henry VIII, 1968

And if a man shall take his brothers wife, it is an
unclean thing . . . they shall be childless. I set before
you this day a forbearance and a curse; A blessing if ye
obey the commandments of the cleric you God, and a
curse if ye will not obey.

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The King had tired of his wife and
fallen in love with Anne Boleyn, who
would give herself entirely to him exclusively if
he would give himself entirely to her.

SOURCE D:
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