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A-Z: General definitions: Henry VIII
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English Renaissance king famous for having six wives (Catharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Katherine Parr). In order to remarry and thereby conceive a male heir, Henry divorced two wives and executed two more. In obtaining his first divorce, Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church, establishing himself as the head of the new Church of England. This heralded the English Reformation.
Renaissance is literally 're-birth'. The term describes the movement, especially in the 15th and 16th centuries originating from Italy, where new areas of art, poetry, scholarship and architecture emerged.
1. All Christians worldwide.
2. The Church in the West until the Reformation.
3. The Roman Catholic Church.
The 'Established' or state church of England, the result of a break with the Catholic church under Henry VIII and further developments in the reign of Elizabeth I.
Term given to the movements of church reform which in the sixteenth century resulted in new Protestant churches being created as an alternative to the Roman Catholic Church.
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