In 1533, the marriage of Henry and Catherine was declared invalid, Mary was declared illegitimate and Anne was crowned Queen. He set himself up as the head of the Church in England. When the Pope refused to end his first marriage, Henry severed ties with the Catholic Church in Rome.
Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon and Anne BoleynĮlizabeth’s half-sister Mary, was born in 1516 to Henry's first wife, Catherine of Aragon.Īfter 20 years of marriage and no son, Henry had grown tired of Catherine and fallen in love with Anne Boleyn. Thus began the start of the Tudor dynasty. However, the Tudor era would be coloured by rebellions, conspiracies, challenges to the succession and fear of further civil war.
The rival Houses of Lancaster and York were united in 1486 by the marriage of the Lancastrian Henry VII (Elizabeth I's grandfather) to Elizabeth of York, which brought much-needed stability to England after the Wars of the Roses. The Tudor dynasty was founded in 1485 by Elizabeth's grandfather, Henry VII, when he emerged victorious after the dynastic Wars of the Roses.
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