Cromwell becomes the king's chief minister
1532 · Event
Wolsey's former man of business — a blacksmith's son, self-taught lawyer, veteran of Italian wars and Antwerp counting-houses — emerges as the king's indispensable fixer, with the answer Wolsey never found: if Rome will not give the king his divorce, make the king's own realm supreme. Statute by statute, Thomas Cromwell builds the break with Rome.
On these timelines: Henry VIII's Break with Rome, England, The Reformation, United Kingdom (combined), Master
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