Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic ... So what caused Henry to break from the Catholic Church and its leader in Rome, the Pope? Henry and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, had ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Now that Henry VIII is head of the Church of England, and he’s taking down the monasteries and cutting off funds to the papacy, he’s clearly not part of the Catholic Church headed by the Pope.

Henry VIII is one of our most renowned monarchs ... When Henry came to the throne, England was a Catholic nation subject to the Pope in Rome. Henry considered himself a loyal subject of Rome ...

In new film Firebrand, Jude Law and Alicia Vikander star as Henry VIII and his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, reframing how history and culture have presented the monarch. Inarguably Britain's most ...

His book refuting the heresies of Luther which he presented to the Pope gained him the new title Fidei Defensor ... who survived her husband. The coronation of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon took ...