We be, by the sufferance of God, King of England; and the Kings of England in times past never had any superior but God.
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Henry VIII of England
Second Tudor king of England (1491-1547). After Rome refused to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Henry pushed through the 1534 Act of Supremacy that severed England from the papacy and made the monarch head of the Church of England. Across six marriages he had two wives executed and dissolved roughly 800 monasteries, while founding the Royal Navy that would underpin later English sea power. He remains an emblematic and contested figure of the European Reformation.
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Henry VIII of England's Other Quotes
If a lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
I have not lived ill, and trusting in Christ his mercy, am not afraid to die.
The King's Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England, called Anglicana Ecclesia.
Defence of the Seven Sacraments against Martin Luther.