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The Tudors Homework Help for kids. Elizabethan England. King Henry VIII (1491-1547) Mon41. Henry VIII, born in 1491, was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. The significance of Henry's reign is, at times, overshadowed by his six marriages: dispensing with these forthwith enables a deeper search into the major themes of the reign. He married Catherine of Aragon (widow of his brother, Arthur) in 1509, divorcing her in 1533; the union produced one daughter, Mary. Henry married the pregnant Anne Boleyn in 1533; she gave him another daughter, Elizabeth, but was executed for infidelity (a treasonous charge in the king's consort) in May 1536. He married Jane Seymour by the end of the same month, who died giving birth to Henry's lone male heir, Edward, in October 1536.
Early in 1540, Henry arranged a marriage with Anne of Cleves, after viewing Hans Holbein's beautiful portrait of the German princess. The court life initiated by his father evolved into a cornerstone of Tudor government in the reign of Henry VIII. The remainder of Henry's reign was anticlimactic. Henry VIII and Tudor England. Henry VII's eldest son was Arthur, Prince of Wales. He married Catherine of Aragon, but died shortly thereafter, leaving the throne to fall to his younger brother Henry. History has not proved kind to the memory of Henry VIII (1509-47). He is often remembered as the grossly stout, overbearing tyrant of his later years. In his youth, however, Henry was everything it was thought a king should be. A natural athlete, a gifted musician and composer, Henry was erudite, religious, and a true leader among the monarchs of his day.
An older but no wiser Henry VIII Cardinal WolseyHenry had none of his father's drive for the grind of administration. Thomas Wolsey was the son of a Suffolk wool merchant. Religious ReformersThe whole of Europe was ablaze during Henry's time with the religious fervour of Reformation. Henry himself, despite his later break with Rome, was not a religious reformer. Sir Thomas More opposed the divorce and was reluctantly executed by Henry. Henry VIII. If a lion knew his strength, it were hard for any man to hold him. - Sir Thomas More of Henry VIII Prince Henry Henry Tudor, named after his father, Henry VII, was born by Elizabeth of York June 28, 1491 in Greenwich Palace.
Since he was the second son, and not expected to become king, we know little of his childhood until the death of his older brother Arthur, Prince of Wales. We know that Henry attended the wedding celebrations of Arthur and his bride, Catherine of Aragon, in November 1501 when he was 10 years old. Shortly after the wedding, Arthur and Catherine went to live in Wales, as was tradition for the heir to the throne. A treaty was signed that would allow Catherine to marry the next heir to the throne -- Prince Henry. History: Tudors. Henry VIII and the Tudors, a fun interactive site for 7-11 year olds Page 1.