<P> The Dissolution of the Monasteries , sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries , was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries , priories , convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland , appropriated their income , disposed of their assets , and provided for their former personnel and functions . Although the policy was originally envisaged as increasing the regular income of the Crown , much former monastic property was sold off to fund Henry 's military campaigns in the 1540s . He was given the authority to do this in England and Wales by the Act of Supremacy , passed by Parliament in 1534 , which made him Supreme Head of the Church in England , thus separating England from Papal authority , and by the First Suppression Act ( 1536 ) and the Second Suppression Act ( 1539 ) . </P>
<P> The Dissolution of the Monasteries , sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries , was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries , priories , convents and friaries in England and Wales and Ireland , appropriated their income , disposed of their assets , and provided for their former personnel and functions . Although the policy was originally envisaged as increasing the regular income of the Crown , much former monastic property was sold off to fund Henry 's military campaigns in the 1540s . He was given the authority to do this in England and Wales by the Act of Supremacy , passed by Parliament in 1534 , which made him Supreme Head of the Church in England , thus separating England from Papal authority , and by the First Suppression Act ( 1536 ) and the Second Suppression Act ( 1539 ) . </P>
when did the dissolution of the monasteries happen
when did the dissolution of the monasteries happen
1536 and 1541
1536 and 1541