Factors that caused the Break with Rome - push/pull?

Factors that caused the Break with Rome - push/pull?

1. Pull

   • St. Germain's idea of 'caesaro papism' - head of Church and State
   • Henry's need to increase his revenue
   • The Church was a very wealthy institution
   • Henry's love for Anne Boleyn
   • Henry's desire for power
   • Anne Boleyn's refusal to be Henry's mistress
   • Foxe and Cranmer's Colletinae Satis Copiosa

2. Push

   • 'the Clergy be but half our subjects; ye and scarce our subjects' - Henry VIII
   • Henry's conscience
   • Henry's desire for a male heir
   • Catherine's miscarriages and 3 still births
   • Charles V's rejection in 1525 of marrying Princess Mary
   • France questioning Mary's legitimacy
   • the Pope being taken prisoner by Charles V in May 1527 (after the Sack of Rome)
   • Wolsey's position as Legate a Latere (legate for life) - failed to get a divorce as Legate
   • Anne Boleyn is pregnant - December 1532
   • The death of Archbishop Warham; replaced by Cranmer