Edward VI House of Tudor

  Noted events in his life were:

• fact. Edward VI 12 Oct 1537 - 6 July 1553 became King of England and Ireland on 28 January 1547, and was crowned on 20 February, at nine years of age. He also carried the English claim to the French throne, but he did not rule France. Edward, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first born Protestant ruler. Edward's entire rule was mediated through a council of regency, as he never reached maturity. The council was first led by his uncle, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (1547\endash 1549), and then, after the Prayer Book Rebellion and Kett's Rebellion of 1549 by John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1549\endash 1553).
Although Henry VIII had severed the link between the Church of England and Rome, it was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was fully established for the first time in England, with Thomas Cranmer the Archbishop of Canterbury, implementing the Book of Common Prayer. Edward's reign was marked by increasingly harsh Protestant reforms, the loss of control of any part of Scotland, and an economic downturn. A period of social unrest begun earlier intensified during his rule, and conflicts with the French increased.
When it became clear that Edward's life was to be a short one, the Device to Alter the Succession was drafted. This made Lady Jane Grey, Edward's solidly Protestant cousin, the first in line of succession to the British throne by excluding his two half sisters, the devout Catholic Mary of England and moderate Protestant Elizabeth I. Following Edward's death at the age of fifteen, a disputed succession reopened the religious conflicts. Lady Jane was Queen for only nine days, during that time reigning in name only, before she was replaced by Mary. Queen Mary then sought to undo many of Edward's Protestant reforms with the Marian Repeal Acts in her first two Parliaments.