Henry VIII was the creator of the Anglican-Catholic in England. A mixture of Catholicism with the ideas of Luther. Unlike Luther, Henry VIII separated from the church to have more power as a monarch. In this way it is Head of the Church and head of state. That takes advantage of "free interpretation of the Bible" to conveniently reach the conclusion that the King has the same power as God or even more, allowing you to cancel divorce (it) without any problems and even beheaded head a pair of handcuffs he had. We must remember that at the time the divorce was a major sin (and certainly the most radical of the church today continue to believe). This brought serious consequences, the kingdom divided into Catholics and Anglicans. Although she ends up dominated Anglicanism.
was a powerful king who married several times looking for a man to succeed him. The problem here was that if he was a man dynasty "Tudor" could not remain in power. Of course this was no excuse whatsoever to commit the atrocity of cutting off his head go to the wives who did not give a man (not cut them all).
His first wife was Catherine of Aragon, gave no male offspring, thus defeating his first marriage. This is when Pope Clement VII excommunicated him and Henry VIII passed a law in parliament to secede from the church and to obtain their first divorce. In addition to his new queen will be Anne Boleyn, his mistress.
His second marriage gave no male offspring, making Anne Boleyn beheaded allegedly accusing her of adultery. No one knows exactly when his adultery was true or false, so if you know exactly is that this was not the real reason why the beheading.
His third wife, Jane Seymour, finally gives a man (Edward VI), which die at age eleven and she dies delivery. A curious fact is that on Edward VI, Mark Twain was inspired to write his famous work "The Prince and the Pauper."
His fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, was a marriage of convenience to strengthen ties with Germany. This was repudiated by him and divorced a year to take to wife Catherine Howard which was also executed, allegedly because he had married a virgin (Look who required). His last wife was Catherine Parr, until his death.
The law of succession after his death he bequeathed to Mary "The Bloody", daughter of Catherine of Aragon, who wished that Catholicism will return to England, so cruelly persecuted all Protestants who opposed him. As descendants did not inherit the kingdom as Elizabeth I, daughter of Anne Boleyn, who returned to England Anglicanism. She also had no succession. Therefore, the power was followed by Edward VI, son of Jane Seymour. It was he who finished completely eliminate Catholicism in England, finally implementing the Anglican Church in England. Unfortunately, the child (Eduardo) only had the power for a few months, since he died at an early age (10, 11).
There are now a television series on Henry VIII called "The Tudors" which can not be seen. Addition a very recent film called "The Other Boleyn Girl" Certainly Henry VIII is a very interesting character that we certainly can not ignore.
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