1st (Catalina of Aragon)Divorced and Died,
2nd (Anne Boleyn)Divorced and beheaded,
3rd (Jane Seymour)had the sense to die before he tired of her,
4th (Anne of Cleves)Divorced,
5th (Cathrine Howard)Beheaded,
6th (Cathrine Parr)Out lived him.
That was So nuts, I remember in my first year of History at UNI I had to study the guys whole (mostly marriage) history. SO NUTS
Originally posted by Ushgarak
Well, except he wouldn't have tired of Jane, seeing as she was actually bearing children, whicvh is what the whole ball game was about.
Originally posted by Koenig
One thing that I get fed up with today is the constant dramas on Henry VIII and Elisabeth the first, come on there is more to British history than them two.
Yeah and there's rarely anything about Henry VII, and he was the one who established the Tudor dynsasty. I loved learning about him last year, and he seemed like a really good king. He's the only king I know a lot about, in younger years in school I didn't take things in as much (even though I still loved it) but now I love learning about it even more.
Originally posted by ladygrim
I found learning about Henry 8th one of the most intresting when i waws at school..
Yeah me too it was really interesting. Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots were very interesting aswell, I learned about those last year too. Any Tudor history is great.
As for Henry VIII, from what I know about him (which isn't that much) he didn't seem like a very good king. And didn't he spend all the money that his father had raised early on in his reign?
(I didn't know there was a history forum either)
Originally posted by Leggy_n_Merry
he spend all the money that his father had raised early on in his reign?
Henry VIII was caught up in the spell on chivalry and courtly love and he spend huge amounts of cash to host pageants and feasts themed to these flights of fancy
of course, in real life, his gentlemanly conduct was as we all know less than knightly.
Henry was a Tyrant, but he was also easily lead.
Catherine of Aragons father Ferdinand (King of Spain) lead the young king on how he should conduct England's foreign policy.
Later during his wife-swapping years , we can see who was leading the kings thinking at court
there was two factions
the conservatives (Catholic & Pro Emperor)
the reformists (Protestant)
for example Henry's mind swung between the 2 camps like a pendulum
Wives I, III, V were conservatives
Wives II, IV, VI were reformists .
Henry's search for a male heir wrought instability both at home and in the rest of Europe, his obsession is probably born out the insecurity of being the only surviving male heir to an usurper of the throne and this I think drove Henry to any lengths to secure the crown to the House of Tudor.
Woo go me.
Originally posted by bILLYgOAT
Henry's search for a male heir wrought instability both at home and in the rest of Europe, his obsession is probably born out the insecurity of being the only surviving male heir to an usurper of the throne and this I think drove Henry to any lengths to secure the crown to the House of Tudor.
Little did he realise that Elizabeth would actually become one of the greatest queens of all time.