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Yes, Henry VIII had many children from different wives. Some were legitimate while many of them were illegitimate. A book with proper description and fascinating detail about the children is given by Alison Weir “The Children of Henry VIII”. Another book which lets us visit the childhood of ...
The English people had suffered the disastrous effects of religious intolerance since Henry VIII had broken away from the Catholic Church and established the Church of England. The result had been over a hundred years of religious conflict and persecution. Mary I (1516 – 1558), a devout ...
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Think Henry VIII or Elizabeth. Well, Louis XIV had the opposite problem. His relationship with his heir and namesake, Louis, the Grand Dauphin, was extremely similar to the distant relationship he’d had with his own father. At first, Louis XIV had regarded the boy with suspicion and ...
King Henry was assassinated when Louis was only eight. A Catholic fanatic ran the king through with a knife in the streets of Paris. He was 56 years old. The thing is, it actually gets more disturbing than all that. There were rumors that Louis’s scheming mother Marie may have been be...
James IV’s growingprestigeenabled him to negotiate as an equal with the rulers of continental Europe, but his position was weakened as he came into conflict with King Henry VIII of England (ruled 1509–47). In 1512 James allied with France against England and the major continental powers. ...
Henry VIII Tudor 1509–47 Edward VI Tudor 1547–53 Mary I Tudor 1553–58 Elizabeth I Tudor 1558–1603 Sovereigns of Great Britain and the United Kingdom2, 3 name dynasty or house reign James I (VI of Scotland)2 Stuart 1603–25 Charles I Stuart 1625–49 Commonwealth (1653–...
Henry VIII Tudor 1509–47 Edward VI Tudor 1547–53 Mary I Tudor 1553–58 Elizabeth I Tudor 1558–1603 Sovereigns of Great Britain and the United Kingdom2, 3 name dynasty or house reign James I (VI of Scotland)2 Stuart 1603–25 Charles I Stuart 1625–49 Commonwealth (1653–...
During the last years of his reign Henry planned, in concert with Pope Benedict VIII, an ecclesiastical reform council at Pavia to seal the system of ecclesiastico-political order he had perfected in Germany. But he died suddenly in July 1024, before this could be done. ...