Youth
Henry VIII was born on the 28th in June, 1491 at the Royal Residence of Greenwich Palace. He was the son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth York. He was their second oldest son to survive early childhood. Since he was two years old, he has been appointed to a series of royal posts, including Constable of Dover Castle, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Lord Marshal of England, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Duke of York and of Warden of Scottish Marches. . He also became a member of the Order of the Garter, which was the supreme order of chivalry in England. From an early age, he received a high level of education from the main guardians of his time. He spoke fluent Latin and French and also spoke a little Italian.
To rise to power
Henry’s older brother, Arthur, was to take the throne and was trained to become king all his life. Arthur married Catherine of Aragon when he was 15. Catherine was the daughter of the Spanish king and queen, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile, and Arthur’s marriage was part of the strategy of his father to form a strong alliance between England and Spain. Unfortunately, Arthur died several months after his marriage and Henry, then 10, was left as the next in line for the English throne. Hoping to keep the family alliance, his father ordered Henry to marry his brother’s widow, even though Henry himself had never liked the decision. After the death of Henry VII, in April, 21st, 1509, Henry, at the age of 17, became King of England.
Contributions
During the reign of Henry VIII, he launched a wide range of reforms in the fields of politics, religion and the army. He managed to deflect the power of the nobles and increase the power of the parliament and the monarchy, making England a feudal system to that of a more modern state. He also dissolved the monasteries and reduced their power, by which he created new land projects and property positions.
In terms of religion, Henry VIII initiated the most radical change of his time by leading religious reform in England and changed the religious practices of the nation to conform to Roman Catholicism to a Protestant practice in the form of the Church. Anglican. He downplayed the power of the Roman Catholic Church in England and established the Church of England in 1534, which he himself undertook. He has also made many important military developments. The English navy developed considerably under the reign of Henry VIII, and the navy subsequently played an important role in England’s success in achieving world maritime supremacy.
Challenges
Although Henry was raised as a Catholic, his unhappy marriage to Catherine and his inability to divorce because of the resistance of the Roman Catholic Church forced him to decide to sever England’s ties with the Catholic Church. Roman Catholic Church. Both the divorce and his decision to break ties with the Roman Catholic Church caused great dissatisfaction and discontent, both within his own government and that of the Holy Roman Empire.
However, Henry Viii, ignored all these voices and declared himself as Supreme Head of the Church of England in 1534. He executed many of his former Catholic Cardinals in the name of betrayal. At the same time of his reign, England was constantly at war with France and Scotland.
Death and inheritance
At the age of 55, Henry VIII died on January 28th, 1547 in London. He had a long history of obesity and probably untreated type II diabetes. He is one of the most famous kings of England, partly because of his scandalous personal life. He married the wives of 6 and performed 2. His divorce with Catherine brought the most fundamental religious change to England and has been a popular theme in cultural productions to the present day.
He turned England into a Protestant and modern nation. The British armed forces, particularly their navy, developed considerably under his rule, paving the way for England’s subsequent world hegemony.