Soon after King Henry VIII cut ties with the Roman Catholic Church and enforced the 1534 Act of Supremacy to declare himself the head of the Church of England, he proceeded with the dissolution of ...

Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of ...

Meanwhile, Prince Hal again disappoints King Henry IV because of continued association ... Hal's only concern is with becoming King of England. However, the old king is convinced by Hal that ...

On December 4, 1154, Nicholas Breakspear, the first and only Englishman to ascend to the papacy, was unanimously elected the ...

So what caused Henry to break from the Catholic Church and its leader in Rome, the Pope? Henry and his first ... in both England and Ireland. After Elizabeth, and into the reigns of King James ...