He also would have more money to leave in the treasury, not only for himself but future generations. The money would lead to power; his greatest desire. To carry this power on he wanted it to be entrusted in a son. All of the reasons link together to show his need for power as king. One of the reasons why Henry broke from the Roman Church was because he had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn but was married to Catherine of Aragon.
Wolsey was raised as a Catholic and supported the concept of marriage however, the main reason he was able to stay in power for so long was his flexibility to meet the kings wishes whatever they were. A divorce was very hard to obtain even for the king of England as it went against the religious nature of the country and so Wolsey knew he would have to find a loophole or old scripture that allowed Henry to be divorced from Catherine if he wanted to please Henry and stay in power. Wolsey tried to say that Edward had not consummated his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and so it was not valid, however this is most likely untrue and so this did not work. The Sack of Rome was used to put pressure on the Pope to grant the divorce as it kept the Pope as a virtual prisoner inside of Italy however this also failed. Wolsey’s final attempt to secure the divorce was through Henry’s own court however, this was not recognised by Catherine and she went to the Pope who refused to grant the divorce.
Robert Bolt’s “A Man For All Seasons” A Man For All Seasons is a great movie which mainly focuses on the life of Sir Thomas More from England and the current king at the time King Henry VIII. The time period was during King Henry the VIII's period of reigning. King Henry wanted to marry his brother's widow, and eventually received a special dispensation from the Pope. After learning that his new wife Catherine whom he married was not able to have children, he started to search again for another wife. It was thought that since King Henry VIII had married his brother’s wife that he was cursed in regards to Catherine not being able to have any children.
While Pope Gregory VII did not introduce the celibacy of the priesthood into the Church, he did take up the fight against the indecency with greater energy unlike his predecessors. The image most often used to describe the role of the priest is one of marriage to the Church. Just as marriage is the total gift of self to another, the priesthood requires the total gift of self to the Church. One of the most powerful advocators of priest celibacy came from St. Augustine, the renowned philosopher of western thought, as he
Power of Religion: The Thirty Year War Religion has been a beckon of hope for people in need of guidance and a need to keep a moral compass on society. Religion was also a tool to control the masses by royalty which is understandable since people who have the same morals tend to stick together. It was in the beginning of the 17th century when religion would clash from neighboring countries. No one would know at the time the effects of The Thirty Year War. Countries that wanted their religion to triumph would have not predicted a new shift of power, a massacre and new technique for future wars that could even influence the actions of today.
Henry also needed to control the nobility because if he didn’t, or only managed to control a minority, he could have a revolution, and Nobles, together, had a lot more money and power than the king himself. Firstly he gave the Earl of Surrey his lands back, bits at a time to ensure his loyalty, while having him as a key figurehead in the north to stop rebellions, since the north largely supported Richard and Henry needed to find a way of controlling them. Also Henry didn’t get rid of all the Yorkist nobles in the council, only those who thought against him. He did this so that he wouldn’t have a full scale Yorkist rebellion on his hands, but he couldn’t have people who wanted him dead and had fought against him on his council. As well as this, Henry needed to be effective at getting England onto a secure financial footing.
Henry approached government about a divorce as he claimed that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was a sin as the Leviticus states that marrying your brother’s wife will be punished by remaining childless. Henry failed to get a divorce so Wolsey promised Henry that he would be able to get him a quick and easy divorce. However this was not the case as the divorce was granted many years later and Thomas Cromwell was the one to do so. This could have led to Wolsey’s downfall as it proved to Henry that he no longer needed Wolsey as he wasn’t able to do his job. As well as trying to claim that Henry’s marriage was a sin, he tried to persuade the pope that the previous pope was wrong to marry Henry and Catherine because Catherine and Arthur had consummated their marriage.
This makes his only job to help the people of God with their problems. A priest should have no distractions like a modern day family may have. All they have to focus on would be helping his congregation, and thus with God. A family is a great thing and is usually a person’s main focus, so a priest having a family would affect his relationship with the congregation, because they would become number three on his mind, after God and his own family. So the practice of celibacy is a very appropriate one because a priest needs to be focused on the Church that Christians have given
However,as time went by,people became more aware of the danger people were in,which meant scientific knowledge improved and hygeine became more prioritised.In this case,the Tudors were important to History. The Tudor Monarch started in 1485, with their first ruler-Henry VII. He became King when he was 28,andhanded over the throne at the age of 52. Henry faced many problems as king,these included: finding a way to get peace with foreign countries-his solution to this was getting his eldest son to marry Catherine of Aragon;War of Roses-he ended up winning this-he was a very difficult opponent! Also, he had very short supply of money-he solved this by getting taxes from rich people.Next,there was rivalry between the York and Lancaster families,so he married Elizabeth.Lastly, he didnt have a very strong claim to the throne,therefore,he married.
In particular, Mussolini and the Church clashed over who should control education. To ensure that children grew up with the ideology of Fascism, Mussolini wanted to control education. However, the Church felt they should have this power. Both sides worked for a compromise. The attempt to settle this dispute started in 1926 and it took until 1929 for agreements to be reached.