Henry the eighth's rain in ten minutes inheritance and early rain so Henry the eighth's file that was also called Henry of course he was Henry the seventh and he was a very cautious King he had a lot of people trying to get him off the throne the Yorkists of course and so he hoarded or was seen to hold a lot of money through various schemes like his council council and in law bonds and recognizance --is and other schemes like that however his son Henry the eighth was going to prove to be a very different kind of King and from an early age he enjoyed going off and hunting with the sons of the nobility in important positions in his father's councils for example these younger Nobles being known as the minions and these minions like young men did very much wanted to go off to war which was very much in alignment with what Henry the 8th himself wanted to do he wanted from a young age to be remembered as a warrior king and this very much leads into his early fallen policy now as well two months after his father's death in 1509 he married Catherine of Aragon and this very much set the president of what he would do throughout his reign which was act on his emotions and desires rather than necessarily looking at what was best for the nation as his father might have done so let's have a look at some government policy there were essentially two styles of ruling during Henry the eighth's reign and these were conciliar and ministerial after the very brief I think only two months or so of the Regency Council but he was waiting to turn 18 now from 1509 to 1564 teen to 1529 Cardinal Wolsey came along and he was the chief minister in control of the government then you had three years of conciliar government again followed by eight years of ministerial rule this time under Thomas Cromwell and finally seven years of conciliate government once again now Wolsey rose to prominence because he managed to organize Henry's war and finance it in 1512 and of course Henry wants to go to war so this put Wolsey in Henry's good books he introduced the court of star chamber he was a commoner from a common background and the court of Star Chamber helped commoners to essentially bring up their common grievances which otherwise they wouldn't be able to do although this worked so well that there were so many requests to use this court that it became clogged up and stopped working after awhile and he actually fell from grace Tom's crow air Wolsey fell from grace dude his inability to solve the king great matter which was his desire to get a divorce from Catherine of Aragon to marry and Berlin however the following up would be Cromwell who was able to resolve this great matter by breaking away from the church in Rome and starting a new Anglican Church and he greatly reformed the English church during his time being responsible for the dissolution of the monasteries turning the English church into a Protestant one for the first time and sparking the English Reformation although he himself would fall from grace due to the failure of the marriage to Anne of Cleves who was and the daughter of an important German prince who was also a Protestant he wants to align Henry to that but the marriage didn't work out and thanks to the efforts of the Duke of Norfolk he fell from grace and was executed in 1540 so the foreign policy is very much linked to this now those the first failed invasion of France in 1512 and this was down to the fact that Henry had been promised by his father-in-law he was the king of Spain at the time that he will also invade from the south of Henry's land and a force in Gascony but they essentially used him and there was no supporting troops in the English were forced to pull back however the following year the English saw two stunning successes on the battlefield the first being the Battle of the Spurs in northern France Henry himself leading the charge it was really rather an insignificant battle but Henry got that taste of glory that he so much wanted as well as the Battle of Flodden while he was away the Scots tried to invade although they were cut down by the Earl of Surrey in the north and on Flodden field on pranksta nomura in Northumberland both happening in 1513 now in 1539 after of course the break with Rome politics shifted an awful lot and there were calls for a crusade mostly thanks to Reginald pole who was in Englishmen in Italy at the time and the peace between the whole Roman Empire and Spain and France all meant that they could possibly invade England so there was really dangerous there and in 1543 again there was problems with Scotland and being known as the rough wooing because Henry wanted to marry his son Edward he'll become Edward the sixth - the daughter of the Scottish Kings although they were not really in favor of this and and there was in French invasion of the Isle of Wight in 1545 that could have become an invasion of the rest of England if there hadn't have been a great naval effort from the English to try and repulse him in the Battle of the Solent which was also the time in which the mayor of Eros sank in 1545 let's have a look at religious policies which were of course incredibly important for Henry the eighth's reign so in 1521 actually Henry was a strong and devout Catholic and arguably he was still a strong and devout Catholic upon his death bed and after Martin Luther wrote the 98 theses he actually wrote a counter response to this which was called in the defense of the seven sacraments and the Pope enjoyed reading this so much that he bestow the title of fidei Defensor or defender of the faith upon Henry and he really was a strong Catholic however when he needed to get an annulment which is essentially a divorce from his wife Catherine of Aragon when he was he'd had enough of her in 1527 he refused to give this mostly because in the same year the troops of the holy roman emperor charles v had sacked Rome and taken him prisoner and chelsa faith was indeed the nephew of Catherine of Aragon so he had a vested interest in keeping her as the Queen in England so the he had to get another solution now there was a trial of Catherine of Aragon and the break with Rome all in 1529 Henry having used the clause in the Bible the Leviticus clause which said that if you sleep with your dead brother's wife because of course Catherine American had been married to his brother Arthur who had died the the same year so then he this didn't work because the Pope rejected it there was a Cardinal campeggio who came over and they tried to get his sword in England but they ruled in favor of Catherine of Aragon so then in 1534 he really properly breaks from the church in Rome with the act of Supremacy and the Act of Succession the act of Supremacy making henry the supreme head of the church on earth and the english church essentially replacing the pope from that title and barring marry his daughter who had been born in 1516 and with Catherine of Aragon he bought her from the succession essentially marking the break with Rome so of course from the break with Rome at this time England became essentially a Protestant nation at least the administration and Thomas Cromwell and Thomas Cranmer Thomas Cranmer becoming the Archbishop of Canterbury they both pushed Protestant reforms in the government and in legislature so for example from 1536 the lesser monastery started to be dissolved to the horror of course of the strongly Catholic population which was especially strong in the north so Northumberland Yorkshire that kind of area and the southwest so Cornwall Devan although essentially the entire country was largely Catholic now this gave rise to the pilgrimage of grace and the Lincolnshire rising again the strongly Protestant northern areas and you found mass support with tens of thousands of people marching to the banner and marching around and although they were ultimately defeated through cunning and canny on Henry the eighth's part although this showed the popular support of the Catholic faith in the country and even in the higher echelon so one of Henry's friends and councillors Thomas More refused to recognize Henry as supreme head of the church and because of this man because of things like the treason act he was then beheaded showing just how serious Henry the eighth was now securing the succession so very much linked to the break with Rome is that one of the reasons he married Anne Boleyn was because Catherine of Aragon had been pregnant many times and had actually given him two sons but they had both died and they of course had a daughter who would later become Mary Tudor Mary the first and although he was another reason he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn was to produce a male heir to continue the succession because this was very important he had three surviving children so Mary he was born in 1516 Elizabeth who was born in 1533 to you Anne Boleyn and Edward he was born in 1537 to Jean Seymour who died in childbirth giving birth to him there was an act of succession in 1534 which made Elizabeth first in line and then barred Mary although in 1536 when Edward was born and when Anne Boleyn's head was cut off so her mother he changed the succession again which made Elizabeth completely illegitimate and barred her as well as her sister Mary or half-sister Mary from the succession now if I have to put the reign of Henry the eighth's into a five-point timeline these are the dates I would go for so first of all 1509 is the start of Henry's reign after the death of Henry the seventh and he really comes into his own right as a ruler after the end of the Regency period of rule with the Regency Council so in 1513 there are several things going on so first of all the invasion of northern France this saw the Battle of the Spurs with Henry playing a leading role in that himself as well as the Battle of Flodden when the Scottish under F believe James the fourth came with a large army into Northumberland and they were completely defeated upon Bankston more two twin victories the really strengthen Henry's position and really upped his prestige on the international scale so 1534 of course very important year break with Rome is embodied after the act of Supremacy making him the head of the church on earth and outing the Pope and the Act of Succession which then sorted out the succession of who was going to come after him meaning that the offspring with and Berlin would also be or would become the next rulers of the country 1536 is the year in which Anne Boleyn her head is cut off and he marries Jane Seymour also the year in which Edward is born so a lot of things going on as well as religiously the start of the dissolution of the monasteries the Lincolnshire rising and the pilgrimage of grace in response to this because the people were still obviously incredibly strongly Catholic and didn't want this so a lot of things going on in 1536 and finally 1547 of course because this is the death of Henry the eighth upon which Edward the sixth his only surviving son came to the throne alright everyone so thank you very much for watching this has been Henry the eighth in ten minutes and I'm gonna try and get it exactly on the ten minute mark thanks again to the patreon for supporting me and making this possible and don't forget to Like comment and subscribe