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Jan 7, 2015 · Moore discussed this in "The Death of Catherine of Aragon", The Athenaeum, 1885. Although the chandler's findings meant that Catherine's loyal supporters could spread rumours of poison and murder, modern medical experts do not believe that the findings support this idea at all. Catherine died of natural causes, of cancer.
Oct 11, 2009 · I have also heard this theory stating that on the Death of Katherine of Aragon an autopsy was made and the report was she had a growth on her heart.Katherine had died at Kimbolton on the 7th of January 1536.The following Day the news reached the king.Rumours were rife around the time of Catherines death.No doubt being made by Anne's catholic ...
Katherine of Aragon died on January 7, 1536 at Kimbolton Castle. Katherine was Henry VIll's first wife and mother to his elsdest child, Mary I. Henry VIll an...
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Jan 7, 2017 · On January 7 1536 Katherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle in Cambridgeshire. Sir Edward Chamberlain and Sir Edmund Beddingfield, the late queen’s, er, hosts, wrote to Cromwell detailing the events of the day and asking for further orders as well as requesting a plumber to ‘enclose the body in lead.’. Cromwell then set about ...
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Catherine of Aragon was born on 15 December 1485 CE, the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand II of Aragon (r. 1479-1516 CE) and Queen Isabella of Castile (l. 1451-1504 CE). Catherine's first brush with the English monarchy was not with Henry VIII but his elder brother Prince Arthur (b. 19 September 1486 CE). Henry VII of England(r. 1485-1509 CE) ha...
As with any king, Henry's main objective was to produce a male heir. Catherine obliged with six children but none of them survived infancy except one, a girl, Mary, born on 18 February 1516 CE. Catherine gave birth to a stillborn girl in 1510 CE, a son was born in 1511 CE but died two months later, a second son arrived in 1513 CE but died a few hou...
From around 1526 CE, Henry VIII's eye was caught by one Anne Boleyn, younger sister of one of his former conquests. Anne, clever enough to realise she was about to become a pawn in a game of thrones, refused to sleep with the king until they were married. To this end, Henry wrote a letter to Pope Clement VII (r. 1523-1534 CE) in 1527 CE suggesting ...
Thomas Cranmer, a much more compliant replacement to Warham as the Archbishop of Canterbury and a man keen to split the English Church from Rome, formally annulled Henry's first marriage on 23 May 1533 CE. With the passing of the Act in Restraint of Appeals by Parliament (drafted by Cromwell), Catherine had no recourse to any appeal. The decision w...
Henry was eventually excommunicated by the Pope for his actions in annulling his first marriage but the English king was far from finished with reforming the whole structure of the Church in his kingdom. Now, in order to replace the Pope as head of the Catholic Church in England, Henry made himself head of the Churchof England. This was achieved by...
Catherine, meanwhile, was confined to her residence at Buckden in Cambridgeshire from 1533 CE and Kimbolton after 1534 CE. In 1536 CE and with failing health, the former queen wrote one last letter to King Henry, whom she had not seen for five years: The use of her original title to close the letter was one final defiance towards her former husband...
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Catherine has remained a popular biographical subject to the present day. The American historian Garrett Mattingly was the author of a popular biography Katherine of Aragon in 1942. In 1966, Catherine and her many supporters at court were the subjects of Catherine of Aragon and her Friends, a biography by John E. Paul.
Sep 16, 2020 · Catherine of Aragon’s children. Throughout her marriage to Henry, Catherine of Aragon gave birth to six children – including two sons – but only one survived infancy: a daughter named Mary Tudor, who would later be crowned queen of England and become known as ‘Bloody Mary’ for her prosecution of English Protestants.
