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    The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between...
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  • The dissolution of the monasteries in Portugal was a nationalization of the property of male monastic orders effected by a decree of 28 May 1834 enacted...
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  • 1541 List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act 1535 Tudor conquest of Ireland Dissolution (chemistry)...
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    The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries and as the Dissolution of Lesser...
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    Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church, the dissolution of the lesser monasteries, and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, as...
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  • Shardlake series (category Series of books)
    Tombland. The seventh book, Tombland, was published in October 2018. The books cover several historical events, such as the Dissolution of the monasteries (1536–1541)...
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    Henry was an extravagant spender, using proceeds from the dissolution of the monasteries and acts of the Reformation Parliament. He converted money that was...
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    Supreme Head of the Church of England. This involved the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales: the assets of hundreds of rich religious...
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  • the monasteries, the book follows the lawyer Shardlake in his attempts to solve the murder of one of Thomas Cromwell's commissioners in the monastery at...
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    monasteries into "places of study and good letters, and to the continual relief of the poor", but this was not done. In 1536, the Dissolution of the Lesser...
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    Anchorite (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Written evidence supports the existence of 780 anchorites on 600 sites between 1100 and 1539, when the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by Henry VIII...
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  • Reformation in Ireland (category History of Christianity in Ireland)
    – and in 1537 introduced legislation into the Irish Parliament to legalise the closure of monasteries. The process faced considerable opposition, and...
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    Henry VIII's dissolution of the English church's ties to Rome, and his subsequent closing of the monasteries. Even with the closure of the island's priory...
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    VIII, his Lord Chancellor, and the Archbishop of York ) during the dissolution of the monasteries. Wolsey closed down the priory (ending Christina Pady's...
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  • control of the Crown. This evident amassing of assets was one of the pretexts used by King Henry VIII to order the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England...
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    Dissolution of monasteries under the Russian Partition and Congress Poland - the dissolution of Catholic monasteries carried out in the nineteenth century...
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    the dissolution of the monasteries, which controlled much of the richest land. He disbanded religious houses, appropriated their income, disposed of their...
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  • These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800...
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    Shardlake (TV series) (category Television series set in the 16th century)
    April 2024, just four days before the series premiere. During the dissolution of the monasteries in the Tudor era, the physically disabled barrister Master...
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  • Blackfriars, London (category Districts of the City of London)
    Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII. The priory was by legal process dissolved in 1538 under Henry's dissolution of the monasteries. Katherine Parr, Henry's sixth...
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    Egham (category Borough of Runnymede)
    chosen for its proximity to the King's residence at Windsor. Under the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the early 16th Century, the major, formerly ecclesiastical...
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    Tudor period (category History of the United Kingdom by period)
    1536 protesting the religious reforms of Henry VIII, his dissolution of the monasteries and the policies of the King's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell...
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    Chew Magna (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    banks of the River Chew and reflecting the reduced wealth of the established church from the Dissolution of the Monasteries onwards. Around 1700 the Lord...
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  • Secularization (church property) (category 16th century in the Holy Roman Empire)
    to church property. The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England began in 1536 under Henry VIII of England. While some monasteries were simply abolished...
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    projects on the Somerset Levels. The abbey was suppressed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII of England. The last abbot,...
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    the Gospels into the English language. The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries ordered by Henry...
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    regarding medieval monasteries. Monastery Italy Monasteries Search – UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries Google-map – UOC Synod Commission for Monasteries...
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    he established the Court of Augmentations to handle the massive windfall to the royal coffers from the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Two other important...
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    was begun by Alfred the Great but completed in 901 by his son Edward the Elder. These two monasteries existed side by side, the monks becoming virtually...
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  • starting in the west of England, preparatory to dissolution of the Monasteries. 4 October – publication of Myles Coverdale's complete Bible translation into...
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