HENRY VIII. BIOGRAPHY
HENRY VIII. BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
HENRY VIII. (1491-1547). —Besides writing songs including The Kings Ballad , was a learned controversialist, and contended against Luther in Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (Defence of the Seven Sacraments), a treatise which gained for him the title of Defender of the Faith.