Question: who benefited from the dissolution of the monasteries
Answer: The Dissolution of the Monasteries , sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries , was the set of anti-Catholic administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded Roman Catholic 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 .