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The reign of Henry VIII: politics, policy, and piety. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-12900-9. Pincombe, Mary; Shrank, Cathy (2009). The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-920588-4. Tittler, Robert; Jones, Norman Leslie (2004). A companion to Tudor Britain (Volume 15 of Blackwell companions to British history ...
The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
Edward VI and the Pope: An Allegory of the Reformation. This Elizabethan work of propaganda depicts the handing over of power from Henry VIII, who lies dying in bed, to Edward VI, seated beneath a cloth of state with a slumping pope at his feet. In the top right of the picture is an image of men pulling down and smashing idols.
Richard Whiting O.S.B (1461 – 15 November 1539) was an English monk and the last Abbot of Glastonbury.. Whiting presided over Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–1541) under King Henry VIII of England.
When Elizabeth inherited the throne, England was bitterly divided between Catholics and Protestants as a result of various religious changes initiated by Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. Henry VIII had broken from the Catholic Church and the authority of the Pope , becoming the supreme head of the Church of England .
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
By the mid-1520s, King Henry VIII was in desperate need of a male heir. His wife, Catherine of Aragon, was increasingly considered to be past child-bearing age, and in Henry’s mind, having a female on the throne (i.e, his only legitimate heir, later Mary I of England) would destabilize the country. [4]
Henry VIII dies, Edward VI accedes to the throne aged 9 Henry had appointed a Council of Regency dominated by Protestants, ensuring the continuation of the Reformation. 1547 The First Book of Homilies introduced by Thomas Cranmer: 1549 The First Book of Common Prayer is introduced by Thomas Cranmer and the Act of Uniformity 1549