King Edward VI
| Edward VI | |
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Edward VI, by William Scrots, c. 1550
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| King of England and Ireland (more ...) | |
| Reign | 28 January 1547 – 6 July 1553 |
| Coronation | 20 February 1547 |
| Predecessor | Henry VIII |
| Successor | Jane (disputed) or Mary I |
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| Born |
12 October 1537 Hampton Court Palace, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 6 July 1553 (aged 15) Greenwich Palace, England |
| Burial | 8 August 1553 Henry VII Lady Chapel, Westminster Abbey, England |
| House | Tudor |
| Father | Henry VIII of England |
| Mother | Jane Seymour |
| Religion | Church of England |
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Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine. The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was England's first monarch to be raised as a Protestant. During his reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority. The Council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, from 1551 Duke of Northumberland.
Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that, in 1549, erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland as well as Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. Although his father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the Church of England and Rome, Henry VIII had never permitted the renunciation of Catholic doctrine or ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass and the imposition of compulsory services in English. The architect of these reforms was Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose Book of Common Prayer is still used.
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