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It depends on when you mean. At the beginning of his reign he was not greedy for money because his father left him with a very sizable treasury. After many years of wars with Spain and France (not to mention the Field of Cloth and Gold) and the lavish way that he lived the treasury was almost empty. That is when he was greedy for money. After the break with the Church of Rome he closed down many churches because they would not agree with the new ideologies and took the money that they had. to rule also to have an army to protect him self from somaira iqbal

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