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3 days ago · Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death in 1553. He was crowned on 20 February 1547 at the age of nine. [a] The only surviving son of Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, Edward was the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. [2]
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2 days ago · The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and ...
5 days ago · Calendar of State Papers, Domestic - Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1856. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1856.
3 days ago · Ferdinand I (10 March 1503 – 25 July 1564) was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564.
5 days ago · February 1547, 1–10. Feb. 6. Vienna Imp. Arch. The Queen Dowager to Van der Delft. We received this morning your letters announcing the death of the King of England, and we immediately despatched a special courier to his Majesty the Emperor. We have lost no time over this, as previous to the arrival of your courier no news whatever of the ...
3 days ago · 212. Edward VI. and the Duke of Somerset. 1547, Aug. 21. “Abstract of the Deed of the great exchange between King Edward the Sixth and the Duke of Somerset,” dated July 26, 1 Edw. VI. [1547]. This deed confirms and carries into effect a deed of exchange made between Henry VIII. and the Duke of Somerset.
2 days ago · Charles eventually defeated the dissenters at Mühlberg in 1547, but by then, Protestantism was already deeply rooted in German society. In September 1555, Charles V – represented by his brother Ferdinand – negotiated the Peace of Augsburg, also known as the Augsburg Settlement, which celebrated the principle ‘Cuius regio, eius religio ...
