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Henry VIII
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Where did King Henry VIII live?
Henry had many palaces which he lived in; these included Greenwich (where he was born), Richmond and many others.
Henry VIII's primary residence later became Hampton Court Palace, but Henry lived in a number of palaces including the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, Eltham Palace, St James Palace, Westminster Palace, and occasionally Dover castle.
Windsor Castle & Hampton Court Whitehall, Richmond, Hampton Court only after he acquired it from Wolsey. His favourite home was Greenwich, then spelled Grenewich. He loved it there and kept the royal barge moored there so he could use the Thames to travel back and forth.
More information can be found in a forthcoming book, I Diced With God ... the life of Henry VIII which will answer all these questions and many more. Look out for it this summer.
No. Henry VIII was alive during the 16th century and the automobile was not invented until hundreds of years later.
Did King Henry VII have more than one wife?
Yes he did. He was married to Catherine of Volois who was the daughter of the King of France
What would the inside of his Henry viii palace have looked like?
Very posh and grand in his day but to us now it would look old fashioned.
Descendents of Catherine Parr?
She only had one daughter, Mary, and she was presumed to have died early (sometime in 1548).
How did Jane Seymour married end with Henry the VIII?
Jane Seymour - Third wife of Henry VIII (1491 - 1547)
Jane Seymour (b.1504-09) the third wife of Henry VIII, betrothed to Henry the day after Anne Boleyn's execution, and married on 30 May 1536, died on 24 October 1537, twelve days after giving birth (probably from puerperal fever) to Henry's only legitimate son, Edward, later Edward VI (1537 - 1553). It was with Jane that a dying Henry asked to be buried. They are interred together, to this day, in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
Henry VIII's third wife, Jane Seymour, died in 1537, after giving birth to Henry's only legitimate male heir, Edward (later Edward VI).
What explanation was given as to how the rebel had gotten so close to Henry regiment?
the rebels had been unaware of how close they were to Henry's regiment
When is Jane Seymours birthday?
If you're talking about the English actress who starred in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, she was born February 15, 1951.
If you're talking about King Henry VIII's third wife, it is speculated that she was born in the year 1509. However it is more likely that she was born in either 1507 or 1508. This is because at her funeral, 29 maidens walked in succession during the ceremony. In those times it was customary to mark the number of years the deceased party had lived. Therefore, for there to be 29 maidens, Jane would had to be born in 1508 or maybe even in 1507, since it is also possible that her 30th birthday was later in the year and she succumbed to childbed fever before reaching it.
because, if you are talking about King Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves, he thought she 'looked like a horse'- in other words, he thought she wasn't much of a looker :/ this all happened because she lived very far away, and Henry couldn't be bothered to go see her so he sent for a painter to paint her but the painter had complimented her features so Henry would marry her. so, Henry married her because she looked (in the painting) pretty.
When did Henry VIII get married and to whom?
Henry VIII married 6 times, to 6 different wives. They were:
1. Catherine of Aragon. Married 1509-1533, divorced
2. Anne Boleyn. Married 1533-1536, beheaded
3. Jane Seymour. Married 1536-1537, died in childbirth
4. Anne of Cleves. Married Jan-July, 1540, divorced
5. Catherine Howard. Married 1540-1542, beheaded
6. Catherine Parr. Married 1543-1547, outlived Henry
Who did Henry viii give Hampton court to?
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey built Hampton Court with his own money as a palace for himself but it quickly became a favorite for Henry VIII. When Wolsey fell from power Henry took Hampton Court from his former friend. To learn more about Henry VIII or Cardinal Wolsey go to TudorHistory.org.
Why did Henry VIII marry his first wife?
King Henry VIII fist wife was his older brother's widow Catherine of Aragon. Queen Catherine was not killed she died a natural death. However, King Henry did divorce her and established the Protestant Church of England in order to do so because the Catholic Church (the Pope) would not allow the divorce.
What nationality was Henry VIII's first wife?
Catherine of Aragon was from Spain. The daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
Did Henry the 8th have any children with Catherine of Aaragon?
yes she did Mary queen of Scots but could not provide him with a son so divorced him later
As a young man he was considered very much an athletic man. He took part in jousting and almost lost his life in one afternoon when the lance hit him in the head and he fell off his horse. They thought he was going to die. He was very active in games and hunting. I saw his armour as a child in the Tower of London, but of course he never took part in any real battle at any time in his life.
How much did Henry 8th eat everyday?
In the 16th century people (if they could afford it) ate a lot of meat and Henry VIII was no exception. Some have estimated that wealthy men would have consumed around a kilogram of meat each day, which is a huge amount, and as king Henry could quite easily have exceeded this as he would have been offered a greater variety and larger quantity of meat based dishes. It is also worth pointing out that in the 16th century meat was eaten at breakfast, lunch and dinner (except on fast days and lent) so there were more opportunities for people to have a lot of meat. So although we don't know exactly know how much meat Henry ate, it would have been considerably more that people today eat and it would have contributed to his weight gain in later life.
Who decided how people were punished in Tudor times?
In the early 1800 s , many white and black settlers Moved
Who was Henry VIII's daughter?
Henry VIII's first daughter was Mary, daughter of Catherine of Aragon (Henry's first wife). She later became Queen Mary I. Henry's second daugher was Elizabeth (who later became Elizabeth I) daughter of Anne Boleyn, Henry's second wife.
What was Catherine of Aragon's life like before she married Henry VIII?
Catherine of Aragon was known for a number of both positive and negative attributes:
PROS
*She was extremely pious, and would often attend Mass and seclude herself in prayer. Sometimes Catherine even wore hairshirts in case she had secretly sinned and/or offended God. Catherine also displayed great courage when tragedy and problems would arise (ie: the dangerous voyage from Spain to England in her youth, the death of Arthur Tudor, her first husband, her numerous miscarriages and stillbirths and of course when Henry VIII's men sought the means to divorce her from the king.
*Catherine was also highly intelligent (perhaps due to her mother, Isabella I of Castille who wanted to ensure that the future queen of England should have a good education) and a skilled strategist as she was left Queen Regent of England when Henry VII set off to invade France.
*Catherine was also known for her graciousness, her compassion and her charm - duly noted when the King's Great Matter came into full swing as the majority of the people were in her favor. She was also rather reserved - a stark contrast and sometimes foil to her younger and more outgoing husband.
CONS
*As was to be expected from a queen and a former Infanta (princess) of Spain, Catherine exbihited pride and stubbornly clung to her title as Queen when King Henry tried to remove her.
*Catherine was also what one could call a romantic - and a blind one at that. She fervently loved her husband despite his reputation for being unfaithful and she refused to hold him at fault during the King's Great Matter.
Why did Catherine Howard get divorced?
She didn't get divorced, her husband, King Henry VIII of England, had their marriage annulled by starting a new Church in England, of which he was the head, and saying that their marriage was invalid. He believed that because she had previously been married to his older brother (a marriage that she claimed was never consummated-- it probably wasn't) that the Pope had been mistaken in giving them special permission (a papal dispensation) to marry despite the fact that she had been married to his big brother Arthur. (Who died son after their marriage). Henry's motivation for having his marriage to Catherine annulled was 1) because he needed an undisputed heir, so he needed his Queen to give birth to a strong, healthy baby boy. Preferably a few in case one or two died off (remember, his big brother died in adulthood before their father died; it was common). 2) He was REALLY into Anne Boleyn who refused to have sex with him until he married her. Henry was not used to women refusing to have sex with him (Mary Boleyn and Bessie Blount both gave him children while he was married to Catherine of Aragon).
When he became king he was a roman Catholic but afterward when he wished to divirce Cathryn of Aragon he turned English Protestant and became the Head of Church for power money .
She died following childbirth of Edward,possibly of complications, or blood poisoning, the way in which children were born and women were looked after was hardly hygenic, so I suspect we will never know.
How old was Henry VIII when he married Catherine of Aragon?
Catherine of Aragon was banished from court in 1531. On 23rd of May 1533 Thomas Carnmer declared the marriage illegal at a special court convened at Dunstable Priory. Just five days later, on 28th May 1533, Canmer declared the marriage of Henry and Anne valid.
How many wives did King Henry the 8th have?
King Henry VIII was the youngest son of two who succeeded his brother, Prince Arthur, the Prince of Wales, who died at a premature age at fifteen, shortly after his marriage to his wife, Catherine of Aragon, the Princess of Spain. Henry VIII had a great fear of leaving England without an heir so his desperate hunt for a wife who could give him a wife resulted in him having six wives.
His six wives (in order) as are follows:
Catherine of Aragon. Princess Catherine of Aragon was the youngest child of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. She had powerful connections to power in Spain, seeing as her nephew was Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor. After twenty-four years of marriage, Henry VIII had their marriage annulled set off a chain of events that led to England's break with the Roman Catholic Church. When Henry was the head of the Church of England, he made his first marriage invalid on the legal ground that a man could not sleep with his brother's widow.
Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn was part of one of the most powerful and most influential families at the time - the Boleyns and Howards. Anne was the daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn and Lady Elizabeth Howard. As a child, Anne was sent to the Netherlands and then to France for her education. She returned to England in late 1521. Upon her appearance in court, Henry VIII became enamoured of Anne and began to pursue her - Anned parried his advances and told him that she would not become his mistress, but his wife. And it was because of this that Henry VIII annulled his marriage to Catherine of Aragon in order to marry Anne. When Pope Clement VII did not approve of this annulment, the rift between King Henry VIII and the Roman Catholic Church began. It was along and hard struggle to make Anne queen, but on the first of June in 1533, Anne was crowned the Queen of England. Later that year, she gave birth to a girl that would later become Queen Elizabeth I of England. And like Catherine of Aragon, she failed to produce a living male heir, which proved her downfall - she was beheaded in 1536 on the unconvincing charges of adultery (with the other gentlemen that visited her rooms), incest (with her brother, George Boleyn), and high treason. The men also accused of having sex with the queen, among them her own brother, were also beheaded.
Jane Seymour. Jane Seymour was the third queen and wife of King Henry VIII. He married her shortly after the death of Anne Boleyn. There were no conflicts between the king and his new queen, and Jane Seymour managed to produce a male heir, who would later become King Edward VI, who later died prematurely from tuberculosis, but there were some complications in the birth and she died on childbed due to postnatal complications.
Anne of Cleves. Anne of Cleves was the fourth wife of Henry VIII. She was the second daughter of John III, ruler of the Duchy of Cleves, and his wife, Maria, the Duchess of Julich-Berg. Her father died in 1538 and her brother William became the Duke of Julich-Cleve-Berg. It was an alliance with the King of England, King Henry VIII, and Germany that caused their marriage - it was also urged onto him by King Henry's chancelor, Thomas Cromwell. Anne also had a younger sister, Amelia, whom the king was also considering to be his fourth wife. He hired and sent a painter to the girls' home and instructed the painter to paint the girls as accurate as possible and not to flatter them, becase he wanted to see what they looked like. Anne had almost no education in her childhood, though she was able to write and read, but only in German. This caused some problems because Henry valued educated and sophistication in women. Henry was anxious to meet his wife on the day she arrived and met her on the water's edge when she arrived by boat. But the wedding night was not as planned - Henry came out announcing, "I like her not" because Anne was larger-boned than any of the queens before her that were the wives of Henry VIII. He tried to get Thomas Cromwell to annul the marriage using a legal way, but Cromwell explained that there was no way to do so without offending the Germans. Their marriage ended on the ninth of July, 1540. Henry was nicer to Anne than he had been to any of his other wives - he gave her a small settlement of her own, including many properties that included Hever Castle, the estate that belonged to his former in-laws. Henry and Anne later became great friends and he made her a "Princess of England" and called her "the King's beloved sister". Anne was there when the two daughters of Henry rode side-by-side into London with Mary as Queen and was even at Mary's coronation. She outlived Henry VIII's last wife, Catherine Parr, by nine years. Anne never returned to Germany - instead, she spent the rest of her life in England.
Catherine Howard. She was also called Katherine Howard or Katheryn Howard. She was the fifth wife of Henry VIII, and he often referred to her as "the rose without a thorn". She was the daughter of Lord Edmund Howard, a younger son of the second Duke of Norfolk. Catherine married Henry VIII on the twenty-eight of July, 1540, almost immediately after the annulment of his marriage to Anne of Cleves. The way she lived her life and the knowledge about her past were known to be unchaste and shortly afterwards, she was beheaded about two years after her marriage on grounds of treason, meaning adultery committed while married to the king.
Catherine Parr. Catherine Parr, or Katherine or Katharine Parre, was the last of the six wives of Henry VIII. She was the Queen of England in the years 1543-1547, and then was known as the Dowager Queen of England. She was the most married English queen, with four previous husbands. Katherine Parr was the eldest child of Sir Thomas Parr, a descendant of King Edward III, and Maud Green, daughter of Sir Thomas Green of Green's Norton, Northamptonshire. She was in the household of Henry VIII and also of Princess Mary, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, when she caught the eye of the king. She had a relationship with Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late Queen Jane Seymour, but then the king offered marriage to her and she accepted. She was one of the queens that were said to have "lived" King Henry VIII, the other being Anne of Cleves, who lived nine years after the death of Catherin Parr.
Surprisingly, Henry VIII did not have six wives. He only had two.
Henry's fourth marriage to Anne of Cleves was annulled. The marriage never took place.
Why? There were two reasons; Anne and Henry never consummated the marriage which means to have intercourse. Anne was also already betrothed to Francis, Duke of Lorraine when she married Henry. The formal act of betrothal was illegal at the time.
The Pope declared Henry's second marriage to Anne Boleyn illegal, because the King was still married to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
When Henry was the head of the Church of England, he made his first marriage invalid on the legal ground that a man could not sleep with his brother's widow.
Henry annulled his marriage to Anne Boleyn just before he had her executed for adultery. Crazy when you think about it.
He did the same to Catherine Howard, his fifth wife. According to evidence, Catherine was unfaithful to him before and during their marriage. Henry passed an act making it treasonable for a queen to commit adultery. So, the marriage was annulled.
Annulments: Four.
Legal marriages: Two.
Total: Six.
Sources:
The Book of General Ignorance - Book - John Lloyd and John Mitchinson - Faber and Faber - 2006.
Henry VIII had 6 wives in his lifetime. It is said one can use a rhyming verse to best remember he had 6 wives. The verse is "King Henry the Eighth, to six wives he was wedded. One died, one survived, two divorced, two beheaded." His wives names were Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr. Technically he was only married to two of the 6 because 4 of his marriages were annulled. He was also distantly related to each one of his wives through a common ancestor whom was King Edward I of England.
