In Henry’s case, the problem was he had already had to go to the Pope to marry his first wife, Catherine of Aragorn, inasmuch as the marriage would have been considered incestuous, because she was his brother’s widow. The Pope gave him the sought after dispensation.It was a bit rich of Henry to go back to the same Pope seeking an annulment from the same wife he got the dispensation for.
“In Henry’s case, the problem was he had already had to go to the Pope to marry his first wife, Catherine of Aragorn, inasmuch as the marriage would have been considered incestuous, because she was his brother’s widow.”
LOL...well I hope you aren’t looking to me to defend Henry’s virtue. Then again, I wouldn’t expect you to defend the Popes virtue at the time either in naming Henry “defender of the Faith” - which at the time was the Catholic faith.
I’m sure the fact that the Pope was related to the King of Spain had nothing to do with his favoritism of Spain over England.
The fact that Catherine of Aragon was from the Spanish royal family, the same spanish royal family that had a dagger to the pope’s throat, made no difference at all, of course.