The English Reformation

King Henry VIII

Lived 1491-1547

Reigned 1509-1547

Henry is married to Catherine of Aragon but . . .

Catherine has a lady-in-waiting named Anne Boleyn.

The Pope says . . .

Henry Does What Any Proud, Arrogant Desperate Man Would Have Done. . .

So Is Born The Anglican Church.

Anne has a daughter named Elizabeth (yes, that Elizabeth) but no sons.

Henry Meets Jane Seymour.

This Does Not Well For Anne.

Queen Elizabeth I

Lived 1533-1603

Reigned 1558-1603

Elizabeth Refuses To Marry

The Defeat Of The Spanish Armada

She Is Anglican But Tolerates Private Catholicism.

She Supports Shakespeare.

Really.

King James I

Lived 1566-1625Reigned 1603-1625

He Is Scholarly And Moderately Protestant.

But He Rules As An ABSOLUTE MONARCH.

His reign is peaceful & prosperous but scandal plagued.

“Rex fuit Elizabeth, nunc

est regina Jacobus.”

Robert Carr, Duke of Somerset

George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham

King Charles I

Lived 1600-1649Reigned 1625-1649

Charles Attempts To Rule As An Absolute

Monarch.

This will not end well.