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Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography; Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and Professions

Comprehensive Dictionary of Biography; Containing Succinct Accounts of the Most Eminent Persons in All Ages, Countries, and Professions


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 Excerpt: ... and Canterbury having pronounced his marriage with Catherine invalid, he without the consent of the Pope married Anne Boleyn. Three years later Queen Catherine died. Laws were passed declaring the English Church and people independent of the Papal See and gradually abolishing the monasteriesin England, which amounted in number to six hundred and forty-five. Queen Anne having in 1536 lost the royal favor, Henry caused her to be tried and executed, and married, the day after, Jane Seymour, a lady distinguished for her beauty. She died the next year on giving birth to a son, afterward Edward VI. Henry married Anne of Cleves in 1540, was divorced from her a few months afterward, and during the same year married Catherine Howard. He was excommunicated by the Pope in 1538, and continued to cruelly persecute Catholics and those Protestants who did not agree with the peculiar dogmas which he chose to maintain. Queen Catherine was executed in 1542 on a charge of adultery, and Henry married, in 1543, Catherine Parr, who survived him. He was succeeded at his death, in 1547, by his son, Edward VI. Henry I., King of France, a grandson of Hugh Capet, was born about 1005, and was crowned in 1031. His Queen was Anna, daughter of Yaroslaf, Duke of Bussia. He was succeeded at his death, in 1060, by his son, Philip I. Henry II., King of France, second son of Francis I.: born in 1518; married Catherine de Mldicis and ascended the throne in 1547. He made a treaty with England in 1550, under which Boulogne was restored to France, and two years later formed an alliance with the Protestant Princes of Germany against Charles V., and captured Metz. Toul, and Verdun. In 1557 the French suffered a severe defeat at Saint-Quentin, but the following year they took Calais, which had been ..


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  • ISBN-13: 9781232250395
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 360
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1232250392
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 644 gr


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