Of Henry’s strengths, the most notable were his ability to lead and inspire men, and his willingness to promote servants of low birth such as Wolsey and Cromwell to the highest positions because their talents deserved it. Of his character deficiencies, the greatest were his insatiable greed and invasive demands of allegiance. But for all his self-contradictions, Henry VIII was still the most remarkable ruler ever to sit on the English throne.
Kitap: Henry VIII The Quest for Fame
Fransa Kralının Esir Düşmesi ve İngiltere-HRE
in February that year, news arrived of Charles’s triumph at the Battle of Pavia: Francis had been captured and his army wiped out. The body of Richard de la Pole, the Yorkist exile who had fought at Pavia for Francis, was found where he had fallen – news that gave Henry double cause for jubilation. On hearing that Francis had been taken prisoner, Henry rejoiced all the more and sought to revive the Great Enterprise without delay. ‘Now is the time,’ he enthused to visiting diplomats, ‘for the emperor and myself to devise the means of getting full satisfaction from France. Not an hour is to be lost.’ But Charles’s victory was complete: he ordered Francis to be taken in chains to Madrid and refused to listen further to Henry. Anxious to stop fighting, for he too was now running low on cash, Charles even ditched his engagement to Mary Tudor, marrying instead his cousin Isabella, the Infanta of Portugal. An indignant Henry countered that not only did he expect to be restored to the role of arbitrator of Christendom he had briefly played after the Treaty of Universal Peace, but that he expected Charles to send the captured Francis to England. Alternatively, Henry wanted Charles to meet him in Paris and watch him being crowned King of France.
Henry Boşanma Mevzusunun Büyümesini Beklemiyordu
Henry naively imagined that an annulment of his marriage to Katherine would be straightforward. There were ample precedents to this effect: among them, Louis XII of France had divorced his wife to marry Anne of Brittany, and Henry’s own sister Margaret, the widow of James IV, had managed to have her second marriage dissolved. In April 1527, Henry informed Wolsey in confidence of his deep ‘scruples’ about the validity of his marriage, but to spare himself embarrassment concealed from him his intention to make Anne his queen. By taking this evasive approach, he hamstrung Wolsey from the outset. Henry’s argument was that the papal bull of dispensation secured by his father from Pope Julius II in 1504, granting him permission to marry his deceased brother’s widow, was in contravention of Scripture and should never have been issued. He maintained that he and Katherine were living in sin, on account of which God had denied him living sons by her. Henry therefore asked Wolsey in his capacity as a leading churchman to ‘examine’ his case and ‘cleanse’ his conscience by arranging a divorce.
Henry VIII İskoç Kralını Savaşta Öldürüyor
Henry did have something to boast about after James IV of Scotland threatened him. Henry VII had married his elder daughter, Margaret, to James as part of a peace accord, but seeing an opportunity to steal a march on his brother-in-law while the latter was away in France, James crossed the frontier with an army. Like his royal predecessors, Henry VIII claimed to be the Scottish king’s feudal overlord. In order to humble James, he ordered Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (later Duke of Norfolk), across the River Tweed with an army. In atrocious weather at the Battle of Flodden on 9 September 1513, and on soaking, slippery ground, Surrey’s men killed James and a large proportion of his nobility in a bloody battle, leaving Henry’s sister as the regent in Scotland during a long royal minority.
Henry VIII ve Arthurian Legends
Henry acted as his co-host, greeting him at Winchester. There, he proudly took him on a visit to admire the vast wooden disc known as King Arthur’s Round Table in the great hall of the castle. By this time, Henry had read the French chronicles of Jean le Bel and Jean Froissart that described in thrilling detail Edward III’s fabled victory at Crécy and Henry V’s at Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. He had eagerly devoured the tales of chivalry from the Arthurian romances, almost certainly from Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur in William Caxton’s printed edition of 1485, so laying down the foundations of his own claim to the throne of France.
Henry VIII arthur efsanelerine kendisini kaptırıyor ve bu gazla fransa krallığına claim atabileceğine inanıyor.