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On This Day In History . 5 January 1531 . The Pope wrote to king Henry VIII forbidding him to remarry . . ◼ Pope Clement VII wrote to Henry VIII forbidding him to remarry, & threatening him with excommunication if he took matters into his own hands & disobeyed Rome:- . “At the request of the Queen, forbids Henry to remarry until the decision of the case, & declares that if he does all issue will be illegitimate. Forbids any one in England, of ecclesiastical or secular dignity, universities, parliaments, courts of law, &c., to make any decision in an affair the judgment of which is reserved for the Holy See. . The whole under pain of excommunication. As Henry would not receive a former citation, this is to be affixed to the church gates of Bruges, Tournay, & other towns in the Low Countries, which will be sufficient promulgation. Rome, 5 Jan. 1531.” (LP v.27). . ◼ Henry VIII sought an annulment of his marriage to Katharine of Aragon so that he could marry his new love, Anne Boleyn. He applied for a dispensation to marry again back in August 1527, never dreaming that it would take nearly six years to get the marriage annulled. . ◼ A seemingly simple request for a dispensation turned into “The King’s Great Matter”, & resulted in the fall of Cardinal Wolsey, England breaking with Rome, Henry declaring himself to be “sole protector & supreme head of the English church & clergy”, & the executions of men like Thomas More, John Fisher & the Carthusian monks, who would not swear the oath of supremacy. . ◼ Henry VIII finally married Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony on 25th January 1533, & their marriage was declared valid on 28th May 1533, just days before Anne’s coronation on 1st June. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #D5Jan #Theyear1531 #PopeClementVII #KingHenryVIII #HenryVIII #kingofengland #history #EnglishMonarchy #Britishmonarchy #Historyfacts #Heritage #Reformation #PopeClementVII #AnneBoleyn #Katharineofaragon #Thebritishmonarchy #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay #Instahistory #QueenofEngland (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B69M_OQAw5g/?igshid=14e4teuybhrlp

The Treaty of Barcelona paved the way for greater stability in Italy and strengthened the alliance between the Emperor and the Papacy at a time of growing external threats. A key objective was to unite Christian powers against the advancing Ottoman Empire, whose military campaigns under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent posed an increasing danger to Central Europe and the Mediterranean. The agreement also set the stage for Charles V's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Clement VII in Bologna in 1530—the last imperial coronation ever performed by a pope.