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• Boniface VIII (noun)
  1. 1235-1303 pope who declared that Catholic princes are subject to the pope in temporal as well as in theological matters
• Edward VIII (noun)
  1. 1894-1972 king of England and Ireland in 1936; his marriage to Wallis Warfield Simpson created a constitutional crisis leading to his abdication
• Edward VIII, King
  1. (1894-1972) the British king in 1936. He was forced to ABDICATE (= give up being king) because he wanted to marry Wallis SIMPSON, an American woman who had been married before. This event is known as 'the ABDICATION '. After he ABDICATEd, he was given the title "Duke of Windsor", and he and his wife lived abroad for the rest of their lives.
• Henry VIII (noun)
  1. 1491-1547 son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England
• Henry VIII, King
  1. (1491-1547) the king of England from 1509 until his death. The fact about Henry VIII which most British people know is that he had six wives. He tried to legally end his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, because she did not produce any sons and he wanted to marry Anne Boleyn, but the Pope refused to allow this. Henry disobeyed the Pope and made himself the head of the church in England. This started the REFORMATION in England, in which the Protestant church was established. His other wives were: Anne Boleyn, who had her head cut off; Jane Seymour, who died while giving birth to a child; Anne of Cleves, whom Henry DIVORCE d ; Catherine Howard, who had her head cut off; and Catherine Parr, who lived on after Henry's death. During Henry's time as king, many schools were established, and England became a more powerful country.
• Innocent VIII (noun)
  1. 1432-1492 italian pope from 1484 to 1492 who was known as a nepotist and was attacked by Savonarola for his worldliness
• Louis VIII (noun)
  1. 1187-1226 king of France who increased the power of the Crown over the feudal lords
• Urban VIII (noun)
  1. 1568-1644 italian pope from 1623 to 1644 who sanctioned the condemnation of Galileo but later freed him
• factor VIII (noun)
  1. trade name Hemofil a coagulation factor whose absence is associated with haemophilia A
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