King Henry VIII

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part will deal with the early years of king Henry VIII’s reign, how he learnt at his young age to keep the alliance with Spain by marring his brother widow Catherine of Aragon. The second part will be situated between 1520 and 1533 dealing with the English ascent, how he drove England to reach the peak of its strength by changing his alliances following the political events at his time, and finally the third part will be from the reformation until Henry’s death.

Toward Spain, Henry was confronted to politics when he was a child, after the death of his brother Arthur, his father convinced him to marry his brother’s widow Catherine of Aragon for political reasons; to keep alive alliance between England and Spain, what he has done in 1509, he joined the holy league including all the Holy Roman Empire against France in1511 to extend the English presence in the north of France, In 1513 Scotland attacked England and Henry engaged King James IV in the Battle of Flodden and ...

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