What was the popes name who didn't let Henry IIV divorce?

Answer 1

The Pope didn't allow Henry VIII to get a divorce because he believed that the marriage between Henry and Katherine was legal and legitimate, and therefore had no grounds for offering the annulment.

He made himself head of the church.

He formed his own Church called the Church of England and as stated above he declard himself the head of.

This is true, however with Henry being quite a popular and powerful king in Europe the last thing the pope wanted to do was aggravate Henry by not giving him the annulment he wanted. For this reason the pope would most probably have granted the annulment without hesitation, however at that particular time, Charles V king of Spain actually had control over the pope due to military superiority, where the pope was actually captured during battle. Charles was strongly against the annulment as he was infact the nephew of catherine of aragon, and so had her best interests at heart. It is because of this that the pope could not alow Henry an annulment as it would have angered Charles greatly and could cost the pope papal independancy in Italy. The

pope therefore came to no decision about the annulment and just kept putting the decison off as he feared infuriating both Henry and Charles; like fighting a losing battle. As well as the diplomatic situation there are also many other reasons Henry could not get the annulment. For one catherine of aragon had a very strong counter argument to Henrys. Henry used text from Leviticus to back up his argument however catherine then used texts from Deuteronomy to undermine Henry's case for the divorce and completely counter his arguements. This strong case catherine put forward, as well as her popularity with the people and unwavering loyalty to Henry, are also very crutial reasons for Henry being unable to attain an annulment.

leviticus and deutronomy are both passages from The Bible.

hope this helps a bit more :)

Answer 2

Pope Clement VII