See also
| Husband: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII (1491-1547) | |
| Wife: | Jane Seymour ( -1537) | |
| Children: | Edward Tudor - King Edward VI (1537-1553) | |
| Marriage | 30 May 15361 | |
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Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII
| Name: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VIII | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Henry Tudor - King Henry VII ( -1509) | |
| Mother: | Elizabeth Plantagenet of York (1465-1503) | |
| Note: | Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Besides his six marriages, Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. His disagreements with the Pope led to his separation of the Church of England from papal authority, with himself, as king, as the Supreme Head of the Church of England and to the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Because his principal dispute was with papal authority, rather than with doctrinal matters, he remained a believer in core Catholic theological teachings despite his excommunication from the Roman Catholic Church.[1] Henry oversaw the legal union of England and Wales with the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. He is also well known for a long personal rivalry with both Francis I of France and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, his contemporaries with whom he frequently warred. Domestically, Henry is known for his radical changes to the English Constitution, ushering in the theory of the divine right of kings to England. Besides asserting the sovereign's supremacy over the Church of England, thus initiating the English Reformation, he greatly expanded royal power. Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quash dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial, by means of bills of attainder. He achieved many of his political aims through the work of his chief ministers, some of whom were banished or executed when they fell out of his favour. Figures such as Thomas Wolsey, Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, Richard Rich, and Thomas Cranmer figured prominently in Henry's administration. An extravagant spender, he used the proceeds from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and acts of the Reformation Parliament to convert to royal revenue money formerly paid to Rome. Despite the influx of money from these sources, Henry was continually on the verge of financial ruin, due to his personal extravagance, as well as his numerous costly continental wars. His contemporaries considered Henry in his prime to be an attractive, educated and accomplished king, and he has been described as "one of the most charismatic rulers to sit on the English throne".[2] Besides ruling with considerable power, he was also an author and composer. His desire to provide England with a male heir – which stemmed partly from personal vanity and partly from his belief that a daughter would be unable to consolidate Tudor power and maintain the fragile peace that existed following the Wars of the Roses[3] – led to the two things for which Henry is most remembered: his six marriages and his break with the Pope (who would not allow an annulment of Henry's first marriage) and the Roman Catholic Church, leading to the English Reformation. Henry became severely obese and his health suffered, contributing to his death in 1547. He is frequently characterised in his later life as a lustful, egotistical, harsh, and insecure king.[4] He was succeeded by his son Edward VI. see : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England |
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| Title (1) | frm 22 Apr 0509 (age -983) | King Henry VIII2 |
| Birth | 28 Jun 1491 | Greenwich Palace, Greenwich2,3 |
| Christening | Greenwich2 | |
| Title (2) | frm 2 Apr 1502 (age 10) | Duke of Cornwall4 |
| Held to have succeeded to this title on the death of his brother Arthur | ||
| Death | 28 Jan 1547 (age 55) | Whitehall, London, Engand3,5 |
| Burial | 4 Feb 1547 | St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle3 |
Jane Seymour
| Name: | Jane Seymour | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | John Seymour ( -1536) | |
| Mother: | Margery Wentworth ( -1550) | |
| Note: | Jane Seymour (c. 1508 – 24 October 1537) was Queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of King Henry VIII. She succeeded Anne Boleyn as queen consort following the latter's execution for high treason, incest and adultery in May 1536. She died of postnatal complications less than two weeks after the birth of her only child, a son who reigned as Edward VI. She was the only one of Henry's wives to receive a queen's funeral, and his only consort to be buried beside him in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. She was the only wife of Henry VIII whose son survived infancy. | |
| Death | 24 Oct 15375 | |
Edward Tudor - King Edward VI
| Name: | Edward Tudor - King Edward VI | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Note: | Edward VI (12 October 1537 – 6 July 1553) was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. He was crowned on 20 February at the age of nine.[1] The son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and England's first monarch raised as a Protestant. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority. The Council was first led by his uncle Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, (1547–1549), and then by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick, from 1551 Duke of Northumberland. Edward's reign was marked by economic problems and social unrest that, in 1549, erupted into riot and rebellion. An expensive war with Scotland, at first successful, ended with military withdrawal from Scotland as well as Boulogne-sur-Mer in exchange for peace. The transformation of the Church into a recognisably Protestant body also occurred under Edward, who took great interest in religious matters. Although his father, Henry VIII, had severed the link between the Church of England and Rome, Henry VIII had never permitted the renunciation of Catholic doctrine or ceremony. It was during Edward's reign that Protestantism was established for the first time in England with reforms that included the abolition of clerical celibacy and the Mass and the imposition of compulsory services in English. The architect of these reforms was Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, whose Book of Common Prayer is still used. In February 1553, at age 15, Edward fell ill. When his sickness was discovered to be terminal, he and his Council drew up a "Devise for the Succession," attempting to prevent the country's return to Catholicism. Edward named his first cousin once removed, Lady Jane Grey, as his heir and excluded his half-sisters, Mary and Elizabeth. However, this decision was disputed following Edward's death, and Jane was deposed by Mary within 13 days. As queen, Mary reversed Edward's Protestant reforms, which nonetheless became the basis of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England |
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| Birth | 12 Oct 1537 | Hampton Court , Middlesex5,6 |
| Christening | 15 Oct 1537 (age 0) | Hampton Court, Middlesex5 |
| Title (1) | Duke of Cornwall5 | |
| Title (2) | "FROM 28 Jan 1546/7" | King Edward VI5 |
| Death | 6 Jul 1553 (age 15) | Greenwich Palace, Greenwich, Kent6,7 |
| 1 | J. D. Mackie, "The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558" (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994). 380. |
| 2 | Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, "The Complete Peerage" (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.). Volume 3, page 443. |
| 3 | "Wikipedia" (en.wikipedia.org). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England. |
| 4 | Vicary Gibbs (ed.) and others, "The Complete Peerage" (13 volumes (in 14 parts). London: The St Catherine Press Ltd. 1910-1959 Volume 14 (addenda and corrigenda). Stroud: Sutton Publishing Ltd. 1998. Microprint edition of volumes 1-13. Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing Ltd. First published 1982; reprinted 2000.). Volume 3, page 442. |
| 5 | Ibid. Volume 3, page 444. |
| 6 | "Wikipedia" (en.wikipedia.org). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI_of_England. |
| 7 | J. D. Mackie, "The Earlier Tudors 1485-1558" (Oxford: Oxford University Press. First published 1952; paperback edition 1994). 526. |