Re: Monarchy Rules: a look at Edward VI

[LouisFerdinand]

King Edward VI arranged for a privileged group of fourteen well-born children to share his education.     
Edward's youthful passion was to hear sermons. As he listened, he took notes, especially when the preachers touched upon the duties of a king.     
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[LouisFerdinand]

John Dudley, the Earl of Northumberland, oversaw the imposition of a new measure outlawing Catholic dress and forms of worship, including priestly vestments.

[LouisFerdinand]

King Edward VI wrote his Devise for the Succession, stipulating that Lady Jane Grey rather than Princess Mary should inherit the throne. Would not any such change in the succession have to be approved by Parliament?

[LouisFerdinand]

The coronation procession of Edward VI occurred on Shrove Sunday, February 10, 1547.   
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[LouisFerdinand]

In 1551 Sir John Perot was one of the party led by the Marquis of Northampton that went to France to start the negotiations for the marriage of King Edward VI with Elizabeth, the daughter of King Henry II of France.

[LouisFerdinand]

By the age of thirteen, King Edward VI had read Aristotle's Ethics in the original. He was translating Cicero's De philosophia in Greek.     
 

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[LouisFerdinand]

During the reign of King Edward VI, Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury drew up the Forty-Two Articles of Religion in 1553. The Forty-Two Articles of Religion was a seminal document on matters of faith in the reformed Church of England.

[LouisFerdinand]

King Edward VI enjoyed sports and pastimes but would upbraid himself if he spent too long at these pursuits instead of studying.

[Curryong]

Edward VI was a religious zealot in the making and a little prig, in my honest opinion. He died horribly, poor child, but England would have been a very different, much more sombre place if he had lived (and we wouldn't have had the Elizabethan Age of course.) England would have had a Puritan type religion backed by the State, IMO, and Thought Police everywhere, a century before it happened in reality.

[sandy]

Edward was mostly quite sickly. He did not live long enough to marry and provide an heir. He and his sister Elizabeth were close. It is sad he cut her out of the succession and agreed as he was dying to name Jane Grey as his successor. I think he as coerced and so sickly he may have not realized the full consequences of what he did. Northumberland ultimately paid the price for persuading Edward to change the succession and there was a quick reprisal by Mary, Edward's other sister.

[LouisFerdinand]

If Edward VI had lived longer, would his sister Princess Mary have still married King Philip II of Spain? Or would Edward have wanted Mary to wed a Protestant foreign Prince?