Henry Viii (2007)
“He believed that he, good son of the Church that he was, had sinned by taking in wedlock his brother’s wife, and that their lack of a male heir was proof of God’s displeasure. According to Henry, the leader of the French embassy, Gabriel de Grammont, Bishop of Tarbes, had voiced doubts about Mary’s legitimacy, and although the King had been able to reassure him that Pope Julius had issued a dispensation for his marriage to Katherine, he was not sure that it was valid in canon law.Henry unburden...ed himself to Wolsey. The Cardinal, foreseeing a solution to the succession dilemma in a French marriage for his master, convened with Archbishop Warham an ecclesiastical court to examine the King’s doubts; it met in secret at Westminster on 17 May. Meanwhile, Mary was sent with her household to Hunsdon, and Henry toyed with the idea of making his son Richmond King of Ireland, so as to make him a more desirable match for Maria of Portugal, Charles V’s niece. Suspecting that this might also be a preliminary to him naming the boy his heir, the Queen made very plain her disapproval.MoreLess
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