Henry began as a very sheepish man, not quite feminine, but nonetheless attractive, intelligent and somewhat surprisingly athletic. Second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, from the line of the House of Tudors, originally second in line to the throne, who only after the death of his elder brother Arthur, Prince of Whales, would eventually become King Henry VIII of England and supreme head of the Church of England, paving the way for a vast, innovative future and a new era for the Protestant Reformation. As king, he had a vast reputation for vanity and absolute power. Henry began his reign with a heavy reliance on advisors, but he ended it with complete and absolute control. During the years 1514 to 1529, Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530), a Catholic cardinal, served as Lord Chancellor and virtually controlled the young king's domestic and foreign policies. By late 1529, however, Henry was unhappy with Wolsey's failure to convince the Pope to annul his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon. If Wolsey had not died of natural causes in 1530, the king might well have executed him for treason. King Henry III never officially washed his hands of the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, but he declared himself supreme head of the Church in England. in 1534. The combination of this with other events that followed eventually resulted in a separate church, the Church of England. King Henry and his advisors believed that the Pope was taking on the role of an Italian leader involved in world affairs, which obscured his religious role. They said and believed that Rome treated England as interfering with others under the Catholic Church, allowing it to have only one cardinal in fifty, and virtually no possibility of that cardinal becoming pope....... middle of paper..... .r") and was interceded with an English audience by William Tyndale At the beginning of King Henry VIII's royal power over the Ten Commandments and therefore over the word of God; was a quality primarily attractive to this set of guidelines, and thus eventually became a considerable feature of Henrician religion. Adverse inclinations within the Church of England sought to take advantage of it in the pursuit of their own meticulous plan. Reformers did everything possible to preserve its associations with the broader support of Lutheran theology, with the emphasis on faith alone and the word of God, while conservatives focused attention on the good ones. works, ceremonies and charity. The reformers combined royal superiority and the word of God to convince Henry to publish the Great Bible in 1539, an English translation that was a remarkable support for his new project. establish self-respect.