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  1. Edward VI died on the sixth of July 1553 at Greenwich Palace, aged just fifteen. The cause of death has been the subject of much speculation and mystery over many centuries. However, historians generally agree that Edward VI’s most probable cause of death was tuberculosis or “consumption”, as it was called in Tudor England.

  2. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki › Edward_VIEdward VI - Wikipedia

    The cause of Edward VI's death is not certain. As with many royal deaths in the 16th century, rumours of poisoning abounded, but no evidence has been found to support these. The Duke of Northumberland, whose unpopularity was underlined by the events that followed Edward's death, was widely believed to have ordered the imagined poisoning.

  3. Edward VI (born October 12, 1537, London, England—died July 6, 1553, London) was the king of England and Ireland from 1547 to 1553. Edward was King Henry VIII’s only legitimate son; his mother, Henry’s third wife, Jane Seymour, died 12 days after his birth.

  4. Jun 5, 2015 · A surgeon opened Edward’s chest after his death and decreed the king had died of a lung disease. The lungs had two great ulcers which were putrefied. Some of the symptoms he exhibited such as the swelling of the legs, the failing pulse, the falling out of hair and nails could have been indicative of a reactivation of tuberculosis.

  5. Aug 8, 2022 · Edward VI: quick facts. When was he born? 12 October 1537. Who were his parents? Henry VIII and Jane Seymour. When did he die? 6 July 1553 (aged 15) Who succeeded him? Lady Jane Grey, the 'nine days queen', ruled briefly following the death of Edward VI until she was usurped by the former king's sister, Mary I

  6. Apr 29, 2020 · The king died on 28 January 1547 CE at Whitehall Palace in London; he was 55 years old. Henry was buried in Saint George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, next to his late third wife, Jane Seymour, and he was duly succeeded by Edward who became Edward VI at his coronation in Westminster Abbey on 20 February 1547 CE.

  7. Jul 6, 2015 · Edward VIs death was not a shock to those around him; he had been ill for some time. It had started with a cough in early January 1553, and when his half-sister, Mary, visited him on the 10th February, she found him bedridden.

  8. As he was a minor a Regency was created and his uncle, Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset, became Protector. Burial He died of tuberculosis at Greenwich Palace on 6th July 1553 and was buried beneath the original altar of Henry VII's Lady Chapel (designed by Pietro Torrigiano) on 8th August.

  9. Edward VI. (1547–53) Coronation of Edward VI, stained glass, Mansion House, London. Henry was succeeded by his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, but real power passed to his brother-in-law, Edward Seymour, earl of Hertford, who became duke of Somerset and lord protector shortly after the new reign began. Somerset ruled in loco parentis; the ...

  10. www.bbc.co.uk › history › historic_figuresBBC - History - Edward VI

    Edward was born on 12 October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace, the only legitimate son of Henry VIII. Henry's desperation for a son had led him to divorce two wives, but Edward's mother, Henry's ...

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