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Feb 5, 2012 · Coronation: 30 October 1485. Westminster Abbey. Died: 21 April 1509. Richmond Palace. Buried: 11 May 1509. Westminster Abbey. The battle was over. On a stretch of high ground in the midland heart of the kingdom twenty thousand men had met in fierce, clumsy combat, and the day had ended in the decisive defeat of the stonger army. Its leader, the ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disagreement with Pope Clement VII about such an annulment led Henry to initiate the English Reformation, separating ...
When Henry VII King of England was born on 28 January 1457, in Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, his father, Edmund Tudor 1st Earl of Richmond, was 25 and his mother, Margaret Beaufort, was 13. He married Elizabeth of York Queen of England on 18 January 1486, in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.
Henry VII, King of England (1457-1509) Henry Tudor was born at Pembroke Castle in Wales during the turbulent reign of Henry VI. The fighting between the Houses of York and Lancaster in the later fifteenth century, popularly known as the Wars of the Roses, led to Henry becoming a claimant to the throne through his mother, Margaret Beaufort.
Apr 9, 2020 · Hans Holbein (Public Domain) Henry VIII of England ruled as king from 1509 to 1547 CE. The second Tudor king after his father Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509 CE), Henry had inherited a kingdom which enjoyed both unity and sound finances. Famous for his six wives as he searched for a male heir, the king was charismatic and domineering.
Mar 12, 2024 · Henry VIII (born June 28, 1491, Greenwich, near London, England—died January 28, 1547, London) was the king of England (1509–47) who presided over the beginnings of the English Renaissance and the English Reformation. His six wives were, successively, Catherine of Aragon (the mother of the future queen Mary I ), Anne Boleyn (the mother of ...
HENRY VII (ENGLAND) (1457 – 1509; ruled 1485 – 1509), king of England. Henry Tudor, later earl of Richmond, was born in Pembroke Castle, Wales, on 28 January 1457, the son of Edmund Tudor and Margaret Beaufort. He was directly related to the Lancastrian royal family through both his mother and his father and, as such, became a key figure in ...
