BY 1530 in England, King Henry VIII (1491–1547) began to put aside the people and beliefs he had formerly trusted. His queen, Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536), was his first target, now in her forties and unable to produce the son he so desperately wanted to secure his dynasty; Henry banished her from court.
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530), his chancellor, a powerful prince of the church on whose shoulders the...
