# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-vi-of-england
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:03:13.858Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-vi-of-england"
name: "Edward VI of England"
slug: "edward-vi-of-england"
description: "He became king at nine and died at fifteen, but in six years Edward VI turned England Protestant — a transformation that outlasted him, collapsed after him, then returned to reshape the country forever."
tagline: "King of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_VI_of_England_c._1546.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "1537-10-12"
deathDate: "1553-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.64724582795052
  historical:           30.156
  currentAttention:     3.464285714285714
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 12 October 1537, Edward was Henry VIII's only surviving son, by Jane Seymour, and the first English monarch raised Protestant. Crowned 20 February 1547 at age nine, he never ruled alone: a regency council governed, first under his uncle Edward Seymour, then John Dudley. His reign saw economic trouble, social unrest erupting into rebellion in 1549, and a costly Scottish war that ended in withdrawal. But Edward cared most about religion — under him, England became recognisably Protestant for the first time, abolishing clerical celibacy and the Latin Mass, imposing English services and a Protestant communion. At fifteen, terminally ill, he tried to secure the future by naming his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey as heir, bypassing his Catholic half-sister Mary. He died 6 July 1553. Mary took the throne nine days later, reversed everything, and then Elizabeth reversed it back.