Pope Leo X was highly pleased with it and conferred upon the king the title of Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith), which is maintained to this day as part of the royal style of the English Crown.
William Knight, the king's secretary, was sent to Pope Clement VII to sue for the declaration of nullity of his union with Catherine, on the ground that the dispensing Bull of Julius II was obreptitious -- i.e.
Henry also petitioned, in the event of his becoming free, a dispensation to contract a new marriage with any woman even in the first degree of affinity, whether the affinity was contracted by lawful or unlawful connexion.
WilliamHenry Harrison (February 9, 1773 – April 4, 1841) was an American military leader, politician, and the ninth President of the United States.
WilliamHenry Harrison's brother, Carter Bassett Harrison, later became a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Virginia.
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (1775 - 1864), wife of President WilliamHenry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House.
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