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- Born in 1401, Catherine of Valois was a French princess who became the Queen of England by marrying King Henry V. Her life was a blend of royal duties, personal struggles, and political intrigue. She played a pivotal role in the Hundred Years' War, influencing the course of English and French history.
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5 days ago · Henry III was the king of France from 1574, under whose reign the prolonged crisis of the Wars of Religion was made worse by dynastic rivalries arising because the male line of the Valois dynasty was going to die out with him. The third son of Henry II and Catherine de Médicis, Henry was at first.
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5 days ago · The reigns and personalities of Catherine de Medici, Mary, Queen of Scots, and (to a lesser extent) Elisabeth de Valois, Catherine’s eldest daughter, are often considered in isolation from one another.
5 days ago · Henry VIII was the king of England (1509–47). He broke with the Roman Catholic Church and had Parliament declare him supreme head of the Church of England , starting the English Reformation , because the pope would not annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon .
- Henry was the second son of Henry VII and Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV. When his elder brother, Arthur, died in 1502, Henry became the heir to...
- Henry VIII married six times between 1509 and 1543 in pursuit of heirs and political alliances. His wives were Catherine of Aragon (the mother of M...
- Henry VIII was survived by three children, each of whom sat on the throne of England: Edward VI (ruled 1547–53), Mary I (ruled 1553–58), and Elizab...
- Of his six wives, Henry VIII had two killed: Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard. He accused Anne of adultery, and she was convicted and beheaded on M...
1 day ago · The Wars of the Roses were rooted in English socio-economic troubles caused by the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) with France, as well as the quasi-military bastard feudalism resulting from the powerful duchies created by King Edward III.
5 days ago · Catherine of Aragon (born December 16, 1485, Alcalá de Henares, Spain—died January 7, 1536, Kimbolton, Huntingdon, England) was the first wife of King Henry VIII of England (reigned 1509–47).
6 days ago · He embraced a life of penance and founded the Premonstratensian order of canons regular (known as the Norbertines). Through his preaching, he drew the entire town of Antwerp back to faith in the Eucharist after it had fallen into a heretical view of the sacrament.
