Pilgrimage Of The Grace Rebellion Essay

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The whole purpose of the break with the Catholic Church was for Henry to marry Anne Boleyn and, more specifically, receive the much sought after male heir. However, the only product of he and Anne’s marriage was a daughter – Princess Elizabeth. Anne’s inadequate breeding enraged Henry to press charges of treason, which included adultery and incest; leading to her 1536 execution (Royal Household, n.d., “Henry VIII”). However, Henry did not grieve for long; in 1537, he married Jane Seymour who would provide him with the much-anticipated heir of England – Edward, Prince of Wales. However, Jane Seymour would never see her son reach the throne as she died twelve days after giving birth in 1537 (Royal Household, n.d., “Henry VIII”).
Thomas Cromwell had proved himself a promising and efficient adviser to Henry on his divorce from Catherine and the beginning of the Reformation. However, The Pilgrimage of the Grace Uprising in 1536 was directly targeted at Cromwell and eventually, after a disastrously short marriage to Anne of Cleves in an attempt to unite Henry with Eastern Europe, Cromwell’s fate was sealed …show more content…
This was due to the closing of smaller lands to create bigger estates for the wealthy. The English government took the blunt of the blow, with it striking home on the Duke of Somerset for his failure to appropriately handle said rebellion; this ultimately led to Somerset's downfall. By 1551 the government was fed up with Somerset's ineffectiveness and the Duke of Northumberland staged a coup d’état and swiftly assumed the role of Lord President of the English Council as Somerset lost his head in 1552 (Royal Household, n.d., “Edward VI”). However, within a year and a half, Edward VI had succumbed to illness and Mary I would be taking the Tudor
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