Series 1 Episode 3 - The Protestant Boy King.

The Rise of the Protestants

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The Artwork is The Family of Henry VIII, c. 1543-1547

The Music is John Taverner: Quemadmodum , Psalm 42, c.1540.

In 1547, King Henry VIII's nine-year-old son, Edward VI, became the first English monarch raised as a Protestant.
John Calvin, a notable French Protestant reformer, was a key figure in the second wave of the Protestant Reformation. He published his influential work, "Institutes of the Christian Religion."
During the 16th-century Protestant Reformation, Anabaptism emerged as a movement that distinguished itself from the Catholic Church through its unique principle of adult baptism.
John Calvin was born on 10 July 1509 in Picardy, France. He was a French theologian and pastor in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation.
As the leading French Protestant reformer, he played a crucial role in the second generation of the Protestant Reformation.
His interpretation of Christianity, presented in "Institutes of the Christian Religion," first published in Basel, Switzerland, became a seminal work of systematic theology.
Ulrich Zwingli was born in the Swiss Confederation on 1 January 1484 in Wildhaus.
He led the Reformation in Switzerland during a period of emerging Swiss patriotism, believing that the state was governed with divine sanction and that the church and state were subject to God's sovereign rule.
Peter Martyr Vermigli was born in Florence on 8 September 1499. He was a leading Italian religious reformer whose primary focus was Eucharistic doctrine.