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When did Thomas Cranmer declare Henry VIIIâs marriage to Anne Boleyn valid?
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Thomas Cranmer, detail of an oil painting by Gerlach Flicke, 1545; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In May 1533, Thomas Cranmer, the archbishop of Canterbury, convened a court at Dunstable where he declared King Henry VIIIâs marriage to Catherine of Aragon void and pronounced his marriage to Anne Boleyn valid.1