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Edward VI

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Edward VI 1537-1553.
King of England and Ireland (1547-1553). The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, he died of tuberculosis.
Edward VI
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(Biographies / Edward VI (1537-1553) M, English, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1537-53, king of England (1547-53), son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. His uncle the Duke of Somerset was regent until 1552, when he was executed. Edward then came under the control of Dudley, Duke of Northumberland
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Noun1.Edward VIEdward VI - King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553; son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour; died of tuberculosis (1537-1553)
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Much of what we think of as Anglicanism was produced by Elizabeth I's decisive if arbitrary edict against further religious innovation, which froze the English Reformation more or less where it was when her brother Edward VI died (with the crucial exception that she insisted on priestly language during communion that validated the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, a key Catholic concession).
Cross purposes: gay bishops, Henry VIII, and the split in the ... by Kilgore, Ed / Washington Monthly
It was first used in the reign of Edward VI (King of England, 1547-1553), hence its name, the Edwardine Ordinal.
The Edwardine Ordinal & Anglican ordinations by McCarthy, Brendan J. / Catholic Insight
A mixture of policy and policing, evangelism and iconoclasm, under Henry VIII and Edward VI effectively disrupted a long-established relationship between the living and the dead, although residual attachment to Purgatory lingered for another two or three generations.
Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England by Cressy, David / Renaissance Quarterly
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