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Henry was the fourth son of Duke Bolesław I the Tall of Silesia, by his second wife Christina, probably a German. He was born in Głogów (Glogau), Lower Silesia. Henry's three older brothers Boleslaw, Conrad and John (1174-1190) died.
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- Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536): Demoted for Bearing No Son. Catherine of Aragon. Henry took the throne in 1509, at age 17. Six weeks later, he married Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and the widow of his elder brother, Arthur.
- Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536): The Union That Sparked Reformation, Beheaded. Anne Boleyn. Anne and her sister, Mary, spent part of their childhood in the France court.
- Jane Seymour (1508-1537): Died After Giving Birth to Male Heir. Jane Seymour. Days after Anne’s execution, Henry married his third wife, Jane Seymour. Jane had served as a lady-in-waiting to both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
- Anne of Cleves (1515-1557): Strategic, Six-Month Marriage. Anne of Cleves. Henry stayed a bachelor for two years, until his chief minister suggested that he seek a European alliance and marry one of the sisters (Anne and Amelia) of Germany’s Duke of Cleves.
- Catherine of Aragon. Catherine is best known today for her role in sparking the King’s excommunication from the Catholic Church and the Reformation. Married to Henry for a quarter of a century, however, there is much more to her.
- Anne Boleyn. With the extraordinary events of her life unparalleled in British history, Anne Boleyn is undoubtedly the most famous of Henry’s wives. Henry may have endured a seven-year courtship and far-reaching political and religious upheavals in order to marry his second wife, but that didn’t stop him having her executed less than three years later.
- Jane Seymour. Henry’s love for – or at least infatuation with – Anne may have sparked the Reformation, but Jane is commonly thought to have been his favourite wife.
- Anne of Cleves. Henry’s last three wives are less famous than his first three, a matter not helped by the fact that each shares their name with a predecessor.
- Catherine of Aragon. Henry VIII’s first wife was Catherine of Aragon, daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. Eight years before her marriage to Henry in 1509, Catherine was in fact married to Henry’s older brother, Arthur, who died of sickness at just 15 years old.
- Anne Boleyn. Anne Boleyn became Henry’s second wife after the pair married secretly in January 1533. By this time, Anne was pregnant with her first child to Henry, and by June 1533 she was crowned Queen of England.
- Jane Seymour. On 30 May 1535, King Henry married Jane Seymour. Unlike his previous wives, however, Jane never had a coronation and so was never crowned Queen of England.
- Anne of Cleves. Henry was single for two years after Jane Seymour’s death. But as time passed, the King and his ministers felt that England needed a foreign ally – and so the hunt for a new bride began!
Oct 16, 2019 · While still a girl, Hedwig moved to the lower part of Poland, the region called Silesia, to marry Duke Henry I the Bearded. Together they had seven children, only two of whom lived to...
Aug 8, 2017 · Henry received papal dispensation to marry his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, as she had previously been wedded to his brother, Arthur. A Spanish princess, Catherine was perhaps the king’s one true love, so the early years of his reign saw him lean on Thomas Wolsey to do much of the regal leg work for him, appointing him Lord Chancellor in ...
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At the age of twelve, Hedwig married Henry I the Bearded, son and heir of the Piast duke Boleslaus the Tall of Silesia. As soon as Henry succeeded his father in 1201, he had to struggle with his Piast relatives, at first with his uncle Duke Mieszko IV Tanglefoot who immediately seized the Upper Silesian Duchy of Opole .
