See also
Edward Tudor - King Edward VI
| Name: | Edward Tudor - King Edward VI |
| Sex: | Male |
| Father: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII (1491-1547) |
| Mother: | Jane Seymour ( -1537) |
| Birth | 12 Oct 1537 | Hampton Court , Middlesex1,2 |
| Christening | 15 Oct 1537 (age 0) | Hampton Court, Middlesex1 |
| Title | Duke of Cornwall1 | |
| Title | "FROM 28 Jan 1546/7" | King Edward VI1 |
| Death | 6 Jul 1553 (age 15) | Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, Kent2,3 |
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
| 1 | 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. |
| 2 | "Wikipedia" (en.wikipedia.org). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England. |
| 3 | J. D. Mackie, "The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558" (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994). 526. |