Why is St. Thomas More be executed ?
On the contrary, Henry was not easy to persuade – he made up his own mind, and stuck to his decisions. Thomas More was executed because he refused to swear the oath to the king under The Act of Supremacy, as required of all subjects by law. The Act of Supremacy stated that the monarch (in this case Henry VIII) was the head of the Church in England, not the Pope.This would make everyone who so swore an Anglican Protestant, not a Catholic. More wanted to remain a Catholic. Henry introduced this law as he wished to divorce his wife, Katherine of Aragon, so he could marry Anne Boleyn. She was much younger and Henry believed she would bear him a male heir (which Katherine had failed to do).However, the Pope refused to grant Henry a divorce – Katherine was the aunt of Emperor Charles V, the most powerful Catholic monarch whose support was vital for the Pope if he wished to resist the Protestant Reformation then sweeping Europe Henry had to execute More for refusing to swear the oath – to let
