1509 Henry accedes to the throne on the death of his father, Henry VII. 1509 Henry marries Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Spanish King and Queen, and widow of his elder brother, Arthur 1511 Henry joins the Holy League against the French. All men under the age of 40 are required...
1501 Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, marries Prince Arthur, Henry’s eldest son. 1502 Prince Arthur dies, and Prince Henry (the future Henry VIII) becomes heir to the throne, later marrying Arthur’s widow, Catherine of Aragon. 1503 Margaret, Henr...
Nonetheless, Henry’s other daughter Mary was declared illegitimate, and Elizabeth was named his rightful heir. Then, during the dissolution of the monasteries, England’s monasteries were closed and in most cases sold off to add to Henry’s wealth King Henry VIII ruled England for 36 years (...
Katherine Knollys was Mary Boleyn's first child, born in 1524 when Mary was having an affair with King Henry VIII. Katherine spent her life unacknowledged as the king's daughter, yet she was given prime appointments at court as maid of honour to both Anne of Cleves and Katherine Howard....
Fourth Marriage: Anne ofCleves– After the death of Anne, Henry remained unmarried for 2 years. But as England was in dire need of support from foreign allies, he married Anne, the daughter of Duke of Cleves. However she brought some disaster along with herself, so after only a few weeks...
doi:10.21039/RSJ.126Valerie SchutteWinchester University Press
Henry and his siblings represented the merging of theLancastersand theYorkswho fought for power during theWars of the Roses. By 1483, Henry VIII’s father,Henry Tudor, was the senior male Lancastrian claimant. Henry VIII’s mother,Elizabeth of York, was the eldest daughter of the YorkistKing...
Share on Facebook Charles VI (redirected fromKing Charles VI) Encyclopedia n 1.(Biography) known asCharles the MadorCharles the Well-Beloved.1368–1422, king of France (1380–1422): defeated by Henry V of England at Agincourt (1415), he was forced by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) to rec...
When the King’s agents visited in April, 1534, requiring the community to take an oath as required under the 1534 Act of Succession (which excluded Katherine of Aragon’s daughter Mary in favour of Anne Boleyn’s daughter, Elizabeth), Houghton asked that the community be exempted. ...
On July 29, 1981, Charles married LadyDiana Frances Spencer, daughter of the 8th Earl Spencer. The royal wedding was a global media event, broadcast live on television and watched by hundreds of millions of people; following the ceremony, she took the title princess of Wales. The couple’s...