John Fisher
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John Fisher was an English Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Rochester from 1504 to 1535 and as chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic C
Depicted by a follower of Hans Holbein the Younger
John Fisher as a young man by Pietro Torrigiano.
John Fisher by Gerard Valck, after Adriaen van der Werff, 1697.
Henrician Reformation
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The Henrician Reformation was the first phase of the English Reformation. It is named for King Henry VIII of England who, between around 1527 to 1547, took a series of measures to take matrimonial, po
King Henry VIII initiated the separation of the English Church from the Catholic Church by declaring himself, not the Pope, the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.
Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. Attributed to Joannes Corvus, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, by an unknown artist. National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex (c. 1485–1540), Henry VIII's chief minister (1532–1540).