King Edward Tudor, - King Edward VI

1537 - 1553  (15 years)

• Name	Edward Tudor
  Title	King
  Suffix	- King Edward VI
  Birth	12 Oct 1537	Hampton Court, Middlesex   [1, 2]
  Christening	15 Oct 1537	Hampton Court, Middlesex   [1]
  Gender	Male
  _UID	7900C4FC09D7D711BA224445535400000DB3
  Death	6 Jul 1553	Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, Kent   [2, 3]
  Person ID	I34	Bourchiers
  Last Modified	4 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	King Henry Tudor, King Henry VIII, Duke of Cornwall,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace, Greenwich d. 28 Jan 1547, Whitehall, London, Engand (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Jane Seymour   d. 24 Oct 1537
  Marriage	30 May 1536  [4]
  	(privately)
  _UID	5000C4FC09D7D711BA22444553540000E423
  Family ID	F14	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine.[1] The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority. The Council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, from 1551 Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that, in 1549, erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland as well as Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. Although his father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the Church of England and Rome, Henry VIII had never permitted the renunciation of Catholic doctrine or ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass and the imposition of compulsory services in English. The architect of these reforms was Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose Book of Common Prayer is still used. In February 1553, at age 15, Edward fell ill. When his sickness was discovered to be terminal, he and his Council drew up a "Devise for the Succession," attempting to prevent the country's return to Catholicism. Edward named his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, as his heir and excluded his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. However, this decision was disputed following Edward's death, and Jane was deposed by Mary within 13 days. As queen, Mary reversed Edward's Protestant reforms, which nonetheless became the basis of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England

  
  

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  [S1] Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, The Complete Peerage, (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.), Volume 3, page 444. [S1870] Wikipedia, (en.wikipedia.org), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England. [S4] J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558, (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994), 526. [S4] J. D. Mackie, The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558, (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994), 380.