Henry VIII

He loved tennis, dancing and composing music as well as executing people..... ( ok maybe the last one isn't so true but he seemed to do it to people alot ) He also believed a king should do three things:

. Protect his country

. Protect his people

. Produce a male heir to the throne

He also followed his fathers words : " To be a king, you must live like a king "

And he was a bit of a sex addict - after all he did have six different wives in total

the dictators

yes there were cousins fighting each other for the crown of england.the wife of henry is the sister of richard the third

At that period of history, people, and even kings, did not have the option of divorce. If two people got married they took a vow to remain married "until death do us part" which is to say, as long as they both lived, and that vow was meant very seriously. To violate that vow was considered to be offensive to God.

The Church of England formed, following the break with Rome, by Henry VIII for mainly patriotic and political reasons did not consider itself Protestant in the way that Martin Luther preached Protestantism. It described itself as reformed Catholic, but not of course Roman Catholic. Under Edward VI, only a boy, the reformation progressed slightly. When Mary I followed him, she reversed all the changes and annulled the Act of Supremacy, and thereby recognised the Pope once again as the head of the English church. She had 300 people burned as heretics for resisting the "counter-reformation" . Whe Elizabeth I succeeded Mary she reintroduced the Act of Supremacy in a milder form than previously and reformation gathered pace again. But it was after Elizabeth that the church became truly Protestant under the influence of the Protestant Puritans, Methodists and the like. Many of the latter had fled to sanctuary in the American colonies. The reason Mary was resistant to the reforming forces at large in Europe was because her mother was very Roman Catholic and a member of the staunchly Roman Catholic Spanish royal family. It was in Spain that the counter-reformation was strongest. Mary had been effectively locked up with her mother when Henry threw her over in favour of Anne Boleyn and supported her to the end. Edward and Elizabeth were happy to go along with what the people wanted which was a reformed church free of the influence of foreign popes.

In 1501 when the Princess came over from Spain to marry his brother Arthur.

Katherine of Aragon was first married to Arthur (Henry's older brother and the heir apparent to the throne of their father, Henry VII), but Arthur died on April 2, 1502, only about 5 months after his marriage.

King Henry VII, in an effort to keep up the Spanish - English alliance that had been so strengthened by Katherine and Arthur's (brief) marriage, promised Henry VIII in marriage to Katherine on June 23, 1503, (when Henry VIII was about 11 years old) to take effect on June 28, 1505 (Henry VIII's 15th birthday - Katherine was about 5 years older than he).

However, they did not wed until June 11, 1509, shortly after Henry VIII became king (12 days before his June 23 coronation) on the death of Henry VII.

(it comes out in grade 9 social textbook in page 28, it might be on google)

sorry

He was the son of Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond and the Lady Margaret Beaufort. He was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457. Following the death of his half Uncle King Henry VI, he was the only heir left to the House of Lancaster and as such seen as a threat by the opposing House of York and obliged to flee abroad where he remained until 1485. In that year he raised an army and returned to England where he met the last Yorkist King (Richard III) in battle. Despite being outnumbered, Henry won the Battle of Bosworth Field, King Richard III was killed and Henry assumed the crown as King Henry VII, the first monarch of the House of Tudor. He married Elizabeth of York, a Yorkist Princess in an attempt to unite the warring Houses of York and Lancaster.

Edward VI, son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. He was succeeded by Mary I after his death.

Initially with Cathrine of Aragon. But he later wanted to get rid of Annne Boleyn,Cathrine Howard, Anne of Cleves and Cathrine Parr. He was in a hurry, so he had two of them executed.

There has not been a King (or Queen) of England since the year 1707.

In 1936 there were three British Kings:

George V, who died on 20th January 1936,

Edward VIII, who reigned from 20th January 1936 until he abdicated the throne on 11th December 1936,

George VI who became King on 11th December 1936 and reigned until his death on 6th February 1952.

They all had the title "King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." - not King of England.

I cannot imagine they thought much of him at all. He was a drooling half-wit. Parliament was in complete control of the government.

Henry VIII had Catherine Howard beheaded as Catherine had a relationship with Thomas Culpeper during her marriage, and she was apparently not a virgin on her wedding night. She was charged with treason under Treason Act 1534, and was beheaded for her crimes.

Causes for Henry VIII, his actions, were a result of his unrestricted power as king. Henry VIII was completely egotistical with limitless expectations. He felt that as king that he could do no wrong. Consequences from Henry VIII: Without Catholic church support for his divorces Henry VIII renounced and broke from Catholicism and forced England to change from Catholic to protestant. Several religious wars resulted, but protestants prevailed. Bobbie C.

Henry VIII was granted the title Defender of the Faith by the pope because he had written a pamphlet denouncing Martin Luther's teachings and promoting the Roman Catholic Church early in his reign.

Henry thought that she was ugly and looked like a horse. But apparently Anne of Cleves was a very pretty lady and it was more her personality that made Henry not like her. Although divorced, Anne of Cleves was probably the most lucky of all the wives he married as she and Henry were great friends after the divorce. Henry gave her lots of jewels and palaces.

Windsor castle at St. George's Church, next to Jane Seymour, the first of his two 'legitimate' wives

He was part of the Tudor dynasty

Catherine of Aragon actually had three sons, but all died in infancy: Henry, Duke of Cornwell, who died 52 days after his birth and two unnamed sons. The first is believed to either have been born stillborn or that he died several hours later, year uncertain; the second is believed to have been born stillborn November 1514.

1.Henry had loads of problems he failed to have a son to become heir to the throne until his 3 wife catherine of Aragon delivered him a baby boy called edward unfortunatly he died at the young age of 15

2.Henry's fued with Rome only because Henry wanted an annukment and the pope refused and so Henry took over the church and made the church of England (: love you long time xxx

For Starting the Church Of England(Anglican Church), and for having 6 wives: Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Katherine Parr.

Henry VIII married more women after he had a son because he wished to have many more sons to make the succession to the English throne, steady in case one of his sons should die and another would be needed to take that sons place, keeping the throne in the hands of the Tudors.

Henry V111 founded the church of England so that he could divorce his wife.

No, his third wife Jane Seymour did.