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Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales was the firstborn child of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and the elder brother of the formidable Henry VIII. Arthur was born prematurely, after an eight months pregnancy, at Winchester on 19/20 September 1486. Henry chose the symbolic name of Arthur, in honour of the legendary Dark Age British King, whom he ...
Feb 25, 2021 · Henry had followed in Arthur’s footsteps as second son, second Prince of Wales, and from 11 June 1509, second husband to Catherine of Aragon. Whatever he learned about Arthur’s character surely came through conversations after 1502 with Catherine and others who had known Arthur in the Welsh Marches.
Oct 17, 2023 · Arthur, Prince of Wales, was born in 1486. His parents Tudor Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, hoped that their eldest son would herald a new, glorious Arthurian age. He married Catherine of Aragon in 1501, but he died five months later. Catherine married her former brother-in-law Henry VIII in 1509.
Apr 2, 2020 · On this day in Tudor history, 2nd April 1502, Arthur, Prince of Wales, son and heir of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, died at Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches. He was just fifteen years old, and had only been married to the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon for four and a half months. Arthur was laid to rest in Worcester Cathedral.
4 days ago · Within this reign, we find the ‘forgotten prince’: Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, the subject of this collection of essays edited by Steven Gunn and Linda Monckton. Seven years prior to this anniversary, on the afternoon of Thursday 2 May 2002, a simple wooden coffin made its way in procession from Ludlow Castle towards Worcester Cathedral ...
Arthur, Prince of Wales. Published 18th November 2017. Prince Arthur was the living symbol of reconciliation between the rival houses of Lancaster and York. His arrival on 20 September 1486, only 35 weeks after his parents’ marriage, has given rise to the suggestion that Henry VII and Elizabeth of York cohabited before the wedding ceremony ...
Feb 9, 2015 · However, Arthur Prince of Wales died suddenly on 2 April 1502, possibly of tuberculosis. The two accounts at right record his parents’ reaction to the news. When his Grace [Henry VII] understood that sorrowful heavy tydings, he sent for the Queene [Elizabeth of York], saying that he and his Queene would take the painful sorrows together.
