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Sir Thomas More was Lord Chancellor of England under King Henry VIII when Henry VIII wished to divorce his first (and infertile) wife Catherine of Aragon so that he could marry his mistress, Anne Boleyn, whom he expected to provide him with an heir to the throne. More was deeply religious and believed that the divorce of a king would be unconscionable, as the king's lineage was, in his eyes, traceable directly to Christ, and should remain so. He was tried and executed for treason because, among other things, he refused to swear to Henry's Oath of Supremacy.


More is a saint of the Catholic Church.


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