Was Henry VIII Catholic

Answer 1

Yes he was, up until he broke his church off the Roman Catholic church. However even after the Church of England was formed he was still, mentally, a Catholic.

The Church of England at this time was still "Catholic" ie High Church. It was not until the time of Queen Elizabeth I that the Church of England became influenced by the Protestant Reformation.

Of course Henry was a Catholic, born and bred! He was a member of a Communion within the Catholic Church and remained one presumably until he died. This isn't to say he was a mirror of Christ in any way, or even average for the time, but I should imagine he was par for the course!

Roman Catholic AnswerYes, Henry VIII was baptised and confirmed Catholic, and even awarded honors by the Pope. Later in life he apostatized and on 17 December 1538, the Pope announced to the Christian world that Henry VIII had been excommunicated from the Catholic church.

Answer 2

Considering how many wives Henry VIII had, it is very likely that he was straight.

Had he been gay, you are unlikely to find much information about it. Henry VIII would not want people to know if he was gay- being gay during his lifetime was less accepted than getting a divorce. (Or two. . .)

To be honest I have been wondering that. The reason why I think that is because he took so many wives and thought himself so much of philanderer when really in his whole life time he only had no more then four mistresses if that (Bessie Blount, Mary Boleyn and the Shelton sisters) none of them lasted any long and he didn't have them daily perhaps three time a week, he married Catherine of Aragon when he was seventeen just to secure an alliance with Spain and he had her not many times their was a time when he hadn't slept with her for something like four years and all of those seven years when Anne Boleyn taunted him with her body and her seductive Frenchified manners. I think if he was gay that would explain why he didn't just rape her I mean King Francois I of France tried raping his wife's stepmother (Mary Tudor) and nobody would have cared if he had done so especially in the 1520s everybody would have rather he take Anne by force then go through all of the Stuff he went through just to get a son and sure everyone that he could have any woman he wants. And look how bored he grew of her when she was six months pregnant with his first child (Elizabeth) and he cut off her head after three and a half year of marriage and then he just married Jane Seymour just to get a son and she died a dozen days later and then he couldn't even bring himself to have sex or even sexually contact with Anne of Cleves and then by the time he married Catherine Howard he couldn't get a erection. But if you look back Anne Boleyn was said to have said to her sister in law in French: "le roy n'estoit habile en cas de soy copuler avec femme et qu'il n'avoit ne vertu ne puissance" meaning "he has neither the strength, virtue, stamina or skill to please a woman" if he hasn't got the 'strength' perhaps it means he cannot sustain an erection. Also he had out of seven wives and mistresses four children maximum six (if you can actually count Catherine and Henry Carey from Mary Boleyn) perhaps he couldn't do it because he wasn't sexually aroused by women. I mean in your late teen such as seventeen right up till your mid early thirties you only have to think sexually to get a erection but when you're in your forties it takes a lot more and that was the time when he couldn't do it was in his mid late thirties. Well forty two I should write since there is no report saying he had sex since he was 35 or 36 and it took something like eight months to get Jane Seymour pregnant and then she died soon afterwards. So that is why I have wonders if Henry was gay. What do you think???

Answer 3

His quest for a legitimate male heir led to his having six wives. He certainly had extra-marital liaisons and at least one of those (with Bessie Blount) produced an illegitimate male son. I suppose he could be considered a womanizer although in his day and time he would simply have been considered a virile male.

Answer 4

I believe wholeheartedly that Henry VIII was a closeted homosexual. he was MOST obviously trying to hide his attraction towards the same sex by marrying multiple women and conceiving three children as a ploy to turn the homophobes away from questioning his sexual orientation. He even passed a law to execute all homosexuals, like come on this man was in fudging Narnia.

Answer 5

Yes, according to ex-US Marine and male prostitute Scotty Bowers in his memoir.

Answer 6

Yes, he married Ann Boleyn before his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was annulled.

Answer 7

nope

Answer 8

Po