Paul III reigned as Pope in a time of Catholic uncertainty and tried unsuccessfully to suppress the Protestant Reformation. He excommunicated King Henry VIII and his court from the church after refusing to recognize Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn.
Henry’s eldest daughter grew up disowned by her father and separated from her mother, Katherine of Aragon and eventually earned the epithet ‘Bloody Mary.’
The ambitious politician Otto Truchsess von Waldburg was an imperial councilor who, as a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, strongly opposed the Protestant Reformation.
Pope Paul III
(Peter O’Toole)
Paul III reigned as Pope in a time of Catholic uncertainty and tried unsuccessfully to suppress the Protestant Reformation. He excommunicated King Henry VIII and his court from the church after refusing to recognize Henry’s marriage to Anne Boleyn.
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