Tudor England (1): October 7th, 2015
NAME (romaji): _____________________________________
1. Henry VII (PowerPoint)
Edward III reigned from __________ to __________. The House of Lancaster was the family
of Edward’s son ___________________________ and the House of York was the family of his son
____________________________. Richard III, Edward’s great-great grandson, belonged to the
House of ____________________. He is said to have been a _________________________ and to have
murdered _____________________________________. After Richard III’s death, Henry Tudor, of the
House of __________________, united the two houses of York and Lancaster by marrying
Richard’s _________________. The Wars of the _____________ and the _____________________ dynasty
both came to an end.
The end of the Middle Ages in England is marked by three things: ________________________
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Henry made trade agreements with __________________________ and __________________________.
His daughter married the king of ________________________ and his eldest son, Arthur, married
________________________________________, a Spanish princess. Arthur died, and his widow
married _____________________________________ after the death of Henry VII in 1509.
2. Dictation exercise: ________________________________
The most significant technological development of the early modern period was ___________
______________________________. The person who introduced ___________________ to Europe was
called _____________________________ and the first ___________________________ using _________________
_____________ was the ____________, in _________. The first ______________________ in England was
_____________________ and ____________________ by ____________________________ and appeared in
_________. Three years earlier, _______________ had ________________ another work in ______________
from a _________________ in Bruges, which is now in _____________________, but in those days was
in ________________________________. That work was ____________________________________________.
Other ________________________ of _____________________ include ______________________________________
__________________________________ (1477), _____________________________________, a ____________ about
the lives of ________________ (1483), and ___________________________________________________________
(1484), the earliest surviving ______________ that includes _______________________________________
____________________________. He also _________________________________________________, such as
Thomas Malory's ___________________________________________, as well as ___________________________
of _____________________________________ and _______________________ of England and the ancient
world.
3. Henry VIII (PowerPoint)
Henry’s brother, _______________, died in __________. It was agreed that Henry would marry
his dead brother’s wife, _____________________________________, who was ______________________
older than he was. It was agreed that they would marry when Henry was ________________
years old and permission was got from the ____________ for Catherine to marry her
_____________________ brother. However, Henry’s father was unhappy with the marriage. Half
of Catherine’s ________________ had still not been paid and, in _________, Catherine’s mother,
Isabella, died, leaving no ___________________. Henry and Catherine were finally married in
_________, two months after ____________________________.
Catherine was very practical. She sold off her _________________________ in order to pay for
everyday expenses during the period between _____________________________________ and _______
_________________________________________. She even acted as Henry VII’s ___________________________
to Spain for a short period. As Henry’s wife, she was a leading promoter of
______________________. ______________________ and __________________________ were among her
friends, and _________________________________________ dedicated a book to her.
Catherine’s only failing was that she did not bear Henry a ___________ child. After about
1524, he lost interest in her. He started an affair with _____________________, and then fell in
love with her sister, ______________, who insisted that she would not be his ____________________.
Henry began to look for a way to end his ____________________ to Catherine. He convinced
himself that his marriage to her should not have been allowed from the beginning,
because she was _________________________________.
____________________ did not agree with Henry about this, so in the end Henry decided to
______________________________________________. In _________ his ______________________ to Catherine
was _________________, his marriage to ________________________ was officially recognized, and he
was _______________________________ by the pope.
Henry was declared supreme head of the ________________________________________________ in
_______. He had been given the title of “Fidei Defensor” (which means _________________________
______________________) in 1521, for writing a book against the reformer ________________________,
and he continued to reject most of the ideas of the _____________________________. One of his
main concessions was allowing the publication of Coverdale’s edition of the ___________ in
1539, only three years after burning _______________________________ to death for his
translation.
The other significant action Henry took was the ____________________________ of the
___________________________, from 1536-41, which brought him considerable ___________________
benefit. He sold much of the land and property to ___________________ and used the money to
finance _____________ in Europe. Some of the monks and nuns _____________________________, but
most stayed and received a ______________________ or (if they were men) joined the
______________________. They were not allowed to _____________________ until after Henry’s death.
A line from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets, “Bare ruined ______________ where late the
_________________________ sang”, is taken to be an expression of lament for the loss of the
monasteries, although ___________________________ of many of the convents and monasteries
had given rise to complaints for many years before Henry finally closed them all down.