What did Henry VIII th die from?

Answer 1

Henry VIII was caused to die for he liked to play jousting (a game on horseback) and once an opponent shot his leg and his horse. The wound from the jouster never healed, and he lived with it for the rest of his life. Some say that the wound killed him, but others say it was caused by other things. no - one precisely knows.

Answer 2

Henry VIII was born on 28 June 1491, and died on 27 January, 1547.

From his youth, as an ideal renaissance prince who loved dancing, music, sport - he loved jousting and tournaments - drinking and eating, he rather rapidly changed after the execution of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. He began to put on much weight (you can see that in his later portraits by Holbein - the eyes have become small, buried in excess flesh, and his mouth thin and, I think, cruel), and his leg ulcer, caused probably by an earlier accident, began to give him great pain. It was also offensive, and his next and later wives would be required to change the dressings. His temper became worse and more unpredictable.

"By 1546, Henry had become gross and suffered from violent fits of temper and longer periods of senile feebleness.

Towards the end of January 1547, Henry started having periods of partial unconsciousness, alternating with periods of mental alertness; he was probably passing into a uraemic coma. On the 27th, he realised that he was near to death and he asked for Thomas Cranmer. His attendants had obviously not been prepared for his death, or Cranmer would have been readily available. As it was there was some delay in alerting the archbishop and by the time he arrived, Henry had lost the power of speech. Henry grasped the hand of the archbishop and, when asked if he really did repent his sins, pressed it. This was taken as Henry's repentance and so he died 'in grace'."

"Henry VIII died from obesity with renal and hepatic failure. It does not appear that he had syphilis, but rather suffered from what might be termed 'Cushing's syndrome', an endocrine abnormality with associated suprarenal abnormality. His leg ulcers were only incidental, but hastened amyloid disease and renal and liver failure."

Henry is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor, with his third wife, Jane Seymour. A plaque marks the spot.

There is no hard evidence that Henry had syphilis. His illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, died young, probably from the family disease, tuberculosis. Henry's heir, Edward VI, died from it also, painfully. His mistresses did not appear to have syphilis, and neither his wives nor his children showed evidence of it.

"Our king, haveing laboured under the burden of extreme fat and unwieldy body, and together being afflicted with a sore leg, took, at the Palace of Westminster in January this year, his death bed; being for the rest not without sense of his present condition. At the last, he desired to speak with Cranmer, who not yet coming sooner than the King was speechless, though in good memory, the King extended his hand to him." (From the "Life of Herbert of Cherbury")

It seems Henry was a mass of rotten flesh. When "his huge carcass was put into a lead coffin and taken in procession through the streets of London and reached Syon House at twilight ... an horrific event took place. According to a contemporary account:

...the leaden coffin being cleft by the shaking of the carriage, the pavement of the church was wetted with Henry's blood. In the morning came plumbers to solder the coffin, under whose feet was seen a dog creeping and licking up the King's blood.

The story gained wide circulation and people remembered Friar Peto's denunciation of the king from the pulpit of Greenwich Church four years previously, in which the bold friar compared Henry with Ahab, and told him to his face 'that dogs would, in like manner, lick his blood'."

Answer 3

Old age, syphillis, Diabetes, untreated ulcer.

Answer 4

I think he died of cancer or tuberculous.

Answer 5

no he didnt. cancer