Politics of King Henry VIII dealing with the church

KING HENRY VIII AND HIS ROLE IN THE HISTORY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

If there are words that would best fit to describe King Henry VIII , one would agree that he was a man of dual powers : religious and political powers he exercised or shall we say employed in to keep his throne and his famous name . He has the religious powers because he had been once an advocate of the Roman Catholic Church and a prominent name during the Church ' war against the Lutherans or the Reformists

. He has political powers , which he used to enable England the most powerful in Europe . As a king , Henry VIII was able to develop those exemplary political skills by building , strengthening and keeping his political interests and good relationships with other countries like Italy and later with France . Henry VIII was undoubtedly politically witty as he was able to handle political pressures and even won over threats of his throne

King Henry VIII also dubbed by Pope Leo X , as the Defender of Faith was famous for his then close relationship with the Catholic Church . He was in fact the one who had helped the church in the war against the Reformists who demanded for the reformation of the Catholic Church during the early 1500s . One historian tagged Henry VIII as a Serial Monogamist ' and an egotistical man (Green , Robert 1998 ,

.263 . It could have been because of the fact that the king was willing to compromise his religious orientation and the doctrine of the Catholic Church for just one thing : his desire to have a son as his heir . What was notable of Henry VIII in the world 's history was his ability to merge religious and political powers in to keep his name clean in the eyes of ally countries and his people which especially manifested during his quest for a wife whom he can have a son to be an heir of his throne . All these facts and observations merged together will somehow justify other observations of historians and biographers , which regard King Henry VIII as significant although with much criticisms personalities in the histories of both the Catholic Church and the Church of England (Erickson , Carolly 1980 ,

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In this , we will look briefly into the family background of the king in to have a better cue on the latter events of his political and religious life . We will focus on his role in the history of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . This also finds it important to examine the sequence of events , which covered the king 's quest for a wife who can bore him a son

Born on June 28 , 1491 , Henry VIII was the second son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York (Scarisbrick , J .J . 1968 ,

.17 . He was one of the most remembered and famous descendants belonging to the line of the Tudor...