Notes 9/20/10

• Tudor Rose- Lancaster and York emblems combined
• Richard III become king
• Henry Tudor tries to take over the kingship

• Richard II had stepped down
• He is replaced by Henry IV
• Henry V dies, his son Henry VI becomes king
• Henry VI was an infant when crowned king
• The people around him were vying for the power of England
• The House of Lancaster and the House of York fight over power

• The ultimate result of the War of the Roses is the rise of the Tudors
• Rise of a recognizable England in the Renaissance
• Rise of strong monarchs
• Catholic England
• People vandalized images of the saints, the Virgin Mary, and Jesus
• From Henry VIII on, fundamentally Protestant and Anglican
• Reformation- 
• Tudors were very devout
• The authorities did not want an English version of the Bible released for anyone to read
• A priest who smuggled in a New Testament was tried and found guilty of being a heretic, and was burned
• Catholic England was turned into a Protestant nation
• Henry VIII becomes king when he was 17 (his older brother and father died)
• Henry VIII started the Protestant Reformation by divorcing his wife
• His wife was supposed to marry his brother, but married him after his brother died