Many of the gentry who gained from the dissolution of the monasteries remained Catholics. As the Protestant Reformation progressed in Wales and England under the Tudor dynasty, except during Mary ...

Henry VIII was brought up as a devout Catholic ... However, Henry VIII never became a Protestant. This suggests his starting of the English Reformation was more about politics, wealth and family ...

Martin Luther on Protestantism (1520). The 16th century was the age of the European Reformation: a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics which divided Western Europe for over 150 ...