Draft typescripts of The Six wives of Henry VIII [1991-1992]
Related Entities
There are 7 Entities related to this resource.
Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w48nsg (person)
Catherine Howard was Queen of England from 1540 until 1541 as the fifth wife of Henry VIII. She secured a place in the household of Henry's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, where Catherine caught the King's interest. They married on 28 July 1540. Catherine was stripped of her title as queen in November 1541. She was beheaded three months later on the grounds of treason for committing adultery with her distant cousin Thomas Culpeper....
Catharine Parr, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1512-1548
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60t0fvp (person)
Catherine Parr was Queen of England and the sixth wife of King Henry VIII; Catherine was the final queen consort of the House of Tudor. With four husbands, she is the most-married English queen. She was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name in English in England. Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward. She was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and Edward. She was influential in Henry's passing of...
Jane Seymour, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1509?-1537
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6d32q1g (person)
Jane Seymour was Queen of England as the third wife of King Henry VIII of England from their marriage on 30 May 1536 until her death the next year. She became queen following the execution of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, the future King Edward VI. She was the only wife of Henry to receive a queen's funeral or to be buried beside him in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle....
Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm46g6 (person)
Catherine of Aragon (16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales. The daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon, Catherine was three years old when she was betrothed to Prince Arthur, heir apparent to the English throne. They married in 1501, but Arthur di...
Henry VIII, King of England, 1491-1547
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sc4z4n (person)
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating the Church of England from papal authority. He appointed himself Supreme Head of the Church of England and dissolved convents and monasteries, for w...
Anne, of Cleves, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1515-1557
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x170f1 (person)
Anne of Cleves was Queen of England from 6 January to 9 July 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. In March 1539, negotiations for Anne's marriage to Henry began, as Henry believed that he needed to form a political alliance with her brother, William, who was a leader of the Protestants of western Germany, to strengthen his position against potential attacks from Catholic France and the Holy Roman Empire. The two married on 6 January 1540, but after six months, the marriage was annulled; f...
Anne Boleyn, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1507-1536
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s7gxm (person)
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and of her execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the start of the English Reformation. Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Howard; she was maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon. Henry needed to annul his marr...
