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20 Cards in this Set
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Henry VII came to the throne |
when the Wars of the Roses ended. |
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Henry VII's son Arthur |
married the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon. |
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Henry VIII was |
Henry VII's second son. |
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In 1521 he was granted |
the title of "The Defender of the Faith" by the Pope. |
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Henry VIII married his brother's |
widow, Catherine of Aragon, by special dispensation. |
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Catherine of Aragon never gave him |
a male heir. |
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Henry the VIII asked the Pope for a |
divorce in order to marry Anne Boleyn. |
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With the Act of Supremacy (1534) he |
broke with the Pope and declared himself "Supreme head of the Church of England". |
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Anne Boleyn gave him a |
second daughter, Elizabeth. |
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Only the third wife, Jane Seymour, gave him |
a male heir, Edward. |
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Anne Boleyn was tried and executed |
for treason in 1536. |
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Mary I refused to |
abandon her Catholic religion and married the Catholic Philip of Spain. |
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She was called "Bloody Mary" |
because she burnt a lot of Protestants. |
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Elizabeth came to the throne |
in 1588. |
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She could speak |
French, Latin and Italian with ease. |
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She restored the Church of England but |
granted Catholics freedom of worship. |
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She was unmarried and used |
this as a political weapon. |
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She was caled the "Virgin Queen" |
because he was married only with her people. |
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English sea captains like Walter Raleigh were |
secretly encouraged by the Queen in their piracy against Spanish ships. |
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In 1588 The Spanish Armada invaded England |
but was defeated also because of strong winds and terrible rain. |
