 | Henry
VIII was the youngest son of Henry VII and
Elizabeth of York. He became King at the age of 17
in 1509 when his father died. |
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First of all he has been very famous for his 6 marriages.
Indeed, he married successively 6 women. Some of them died, were executed or simply
divorced. |
| In
1509 his first wife was Catherine of Aragon who gave
him a daughter, Mary, he divorced her in 1533. |
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This first divorce provoked
a scandal in the religious institutions and Henry
VIII was excommunicated by the Pope. After that, Henry VIII formed the Church
of England. |
| In
1533, Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn. She was executed
for treason in 1536 and this marriage brought him another daughter called Elizabeth. |
| His third wife
was Jane Seymour. He married her in 1536 and she
died giving birth to Henry's lone male heir: Edward VI. |
In 1540, Anne
of Cleaves was her wife for a few months and the same year he married Catherine
Howard who has been beheaded for infidelity in 1542.
His last wife
was Catherine Parr he married in 1543. She took care
and brought up his children till his death n 1547. |
| In 1536, Henry VIII
ordered the closing of all religious
houses; he became the owner of their huge wealth. Indeed, in the 16th century,
the incomes of monasteries were four times larger than the ones of the royal family. |
| Actually, Henry
VIII did not rule the country himself; he preferred go hunting on the countryside.
One of the people who virtually ruled the country was the Archibishop
of York Thomas Wolsey. |
| Henry
VIII had great ideas of invasion and expansion
of his power. He invaded France and built also Camber Castle
situated between Rye and Winchelsea in order to face an eventual attack of the
French forces. |
| The
famous conflict between Henry VIII and Scotland in 1545 is the result of the failure
of his marriage with Mary Queen of Scotland. |
| He denounced
the reformist ideas of Martin Luther and the Pope
himself gave him the price of "defender of the faith". |
| On death of
Henry VIII in 1547, his lonely son Edward VI became
King of England. |
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