I would argue that the root of all the trouble today really started a century later, when that fanatic idiot Catesby bungled a coup attempt against James I.
“...when that fanatic idiot Catesby bungled a coup attempt against James I.”
You may well be right, but that is way too inside English History for me!
I just read those Hillary Mantel books, I enjoyed them very much, but the story they tell is very shocking.
Esp. at the beginning of the first one, I didn’t really know how widespread, and yes, grassroots, the Reformation was, and how resisted it was by those in power.
Of course you know that Henry had been honored as a defender of the faith by the pope, and then look what happened!
So yeah, something was brewing and it wasn’t just the problems of 3 people, to borrow a bit from Casablanca.