Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England and Ireland

by E. W. Ives

  • Upbringing
  • Personal monarchy
  • The conciliar option, 1509–1514
  • Developments at court
  • Wolsey as minister, 1514–1526
  • The king's ‘Great Matter’
  • The failure of Wolsey, 1527–1529
  • A return to conciliar government, 1529–1531
  • The final phase, 1530–1533: new ideas
  • The headship of the church
  • The emergence of a new minister
  • Marriage and the breach with Rome
  • The royal supremacy defended: foreign danger
  • The royal supremacy defended: the home front
  • Doctrinal revolution
  • Opposition
  • Henry and kingship
  • Henrician politics
  • Royal marriages, 1509–1537
  • The royal parent, 1537–1553
  • Henry VIII and Cromwell
  • Wales, Calais, and the north
  • The Irish problem
  • The Cleves marriage
  • The fall of Cromwell
  • The emergence of a privy council
  • Royal marriages, 1540–1547
  • A return to war
  • An evil legacy
  • The king's will
  • The royal magnificence
  • Henry VIII—an assessment
  • Henry VIII to his contemporaries
  • Subsequent images

References

See also

Themes

  • Consorts of the monarchs of England
  • Monarchs of England
  • Princes of Wales
  • Field of Cloth of Gold
  • lawyers in England, 1500–1800
  • Cinque Ports in the Oxford DNB

Other online resources

  • Bibliography of British and Irish history
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Register of Archives

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