Henry VIII

No, his third wife Jane Seymour did.

Henry VIII was more concerned with avoiding war that starting it. He married his dead brother's wife Catherine of Aragon to keep in the good books of the King of Spain who was the most powerful man around at the time.

yes he did. his older brother Arthur died and Henry's first wife was poor widowed Catherine of Aragon who was originally married to Arthur.

he executed her because she was unfaithful to Him. She committed adultery with Thomas Colpepper, and, before coming to Cort she "fell in love" with Francis Dereham. During her reign as queen, she reemployed Deremham as her "private secretary"

Anyway, she was basically executed because she committed adultery with Thomas Collpepper.

The popes were the leaders of the Catholic Church, with the spiritual and moral authority that entails. If a pope said something was true, there were very few people who would question him.

There was one thing in particular, however, that gave the popes power other people did not have. This was the power to free people from oaths they had taken. It could be exercised as a punishment for kings and emperors.

If a pope wanted to dispute the authority of a monarch, he could excommunicate that monarch. This might sound to people of the 21st century like a purely personal and religious matter, but it was in fact a matter with profound effects. When a king was excommunicated, the pope very often freed the kings followers from all their oaths of allegiance to the king, giving them freedom to rebel or invade at will, and taking away the right of the king to resist. More than one king or emperor found himself in grave difficulty because he decided to enter into a dispute with a pope.

Henry VIII had three legitimate children who survived infancy; Mary, Elizabeth and Edward, who became Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.

It was as a result of Henry VIII that the church of England came into being. The church of England is a very influential organisation.

between 1534 and 1536. he created the church because of his divorce to Catherine of Aragon for Anne Boleyn. Catherine was a parth of the Catholic church, so this led the king to split with the Catholic Church and found his own church, the Church of England, which in turn set the stage for the English Reformation and for religious battles which lasted for centuries.

Henry VIII

In 1745,Catherine the Great married then Grand Duke Peter Romanov. He became Tsar Peter III in 1762. He also became dead later in 1762, when Catherine, her lover and some friends had Peter murdered so she could become Empress.

In 1534 Henry the VIII formally initiated the Protestant Reformation.

In the short run, The English Reformation allowed Henry VIII to achieve his political goal of controlling the church. In the long run, however, the Reformation brought to England the political and religious turmoil that Henry had hoped to avoid.

Henry's favourite male courtier,whom she had initially desired on her arrival at court two years earlier. Their meetings were arranged by Lady Rochford(George Boleyns`widow).

His first two wives each gave birth to two sons who died before their first birthdays.
His third wife, Jane Seymour, gave birth to Edward who went on to become king.

Jane Seymour, who was Henry VIII's 3rd wife, gave birth to a boy named Edward VI. He only ruled for 6 years. Edward was 9 when he ruled England and since he was an ill boy, he died at the age of 15.

yes his first wife died by the birth of her child Edward., but i don't remember how Dorthea Dandbridge.

Henry VIII had only one wife at any one time but he had 6 during his life.

He thought it was the general's fault

The dissolution of monasteries after the break with Rome in Henry's reign led to the dissolving of many abbeys including Neath abbey which was dissolved in 1539. Abbeys all over the country were dissolved to provide the crown with vast amounts of land, property and goods. After Neath was dissolved it was given to Sir Richard Williams who converted much of the south-eastern wing of the abbey to create a grand mansion, which was essential for aspiring nobles at the time.

I do not know if this applies specifically to Neath but many abbeys were destroyed after being dissolved as the crown or noble who gained the abbey would often tear it apart to get building materials which they could then use on other projects. This may have happened at Neath and that in a sense is vandalising the abbey, particularly as many of the abbeys were buildings of great beauty.

That certainly isn't what he set out to do. In the beginning, he really wanted to remain in the Roman Catholic Communion. He also wanted a son. His first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was not able to have any children that survived longer than 52 days, except for the future Mary I, Queen of England. Catherine had a total of 6 pregnancies. A son lived for 52 days, and another son was stillborn. Even though he had a surviving daughter, Henry wanted a son in order to stave off possible succession problems. Henry went to great lengths to see if he could somehow separate from Catherine, marry another, and remain in the Church's good graces. It did not work out that way. He established the Church of England, and had his marriage to Catherine declared invalid. Henry married Anne Bolyn, the mother of Elizabeth I, and Anne was the first of Henry's two wives who were beheaded.

King Henry VII of England - born Henry Tudor on 28th January 1457 - became King through his victory over King Richard III at Bosworth on 22nd August 1485. This ended the long civil war known as The Wars of The Roses.

On 18th January 1486 he married Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV.

Their children were:

Arthur, born 20 September 1486.

As eldest son, Arthur was heir to the throne and was created Prince of Wales.

When he was two years old, his parents contracted his marriage to Catherine, Princess of Aragon and they were actually married on 14th November 1501 and went to live in Ludlow Castle.

Arthur died on 2nd April 1502, aged 15, from what may have been tuberculosis.

Margaret Tudor, born 28th November 1489.

In 1502, as part of a peace treaty between England and Scotland, she was contracted to marry King James IV of Scotland. The marriage took place on 8th August 1503, and their descendant, King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603.

Henry, born 28th June 1491.

As a young man, Henry was well educated as preparation for a probable intended career in the church, the assumption was that his brother, Arthur would inherit the throne.

When Henry VII died on 21st April 1509 the young Henry became King as Henry VIII.

On 11th June 1509 he married his brother's widow, Catherine and the couple were crowned on 24th June 1509.

This was the first of his six marriages - see the related question link below.

Elizabeth, born 2nd July 1492.

Arrangements were being negotiated for her future marriage to the French Prince Francis (later King Francis I) but Elizabeth died on 14th September 1495, aged 3.

Mary, born 18th March 1496.

On 9th October 1514 Mary married the 52-year old King Lois XII of France and became Queen Consort of France.

Louis died on 1st January 1515, less than 3 months later.

Mary then married Henry Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, on 13th May 1515 and became Duchess of Suffolk.

Through this marriage she was the grandmother of Lady Jane Grey who was monarch of England for little more than a week in July 1553.

Mary was very close to her brother, King Henry VIII, and it is thought that he named his second daughter (later Queen Mary I of England) and his famous warship The Mary Rose in her honour.

Edmund, born 21st February 1499.

Edmund was given the title Duke of Somerset at birth, but was never formally created Duke.

He died on 19th June 1500, aged 15 months.

Katherine, born 2nd February 1503, and died soon after birth.

Her mother, Elizabeth, died on 11th February 1503 from what was thought to be an infection connected to the pregnancy and birth.