Henry VIII - OverSimplified

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[Music] the year is 1491 England has just come out of three decades of civil war in which a bunch of Henry's Edwards and one Richard had a little ding-dong over which royal house should roll the realm finally at Henry one Henry the seventh and he had a son what should we name him my royal lineage is full of Henry's a fine name a vigorous name a tenacious name a muscular about Arthur and so Arthur Prince of Wales and next in line to the throne was born five years later Prince Henry was born but nobody cares about him he's not the heir just a spare the King wanted to make an alliance with Spain so one day he said to his son Arthur hey baby you see that lady baby that's gonna be your wife but father I'm not even three years old yet listen there's something you have to understand you're my son but more than that you're a political bargaining tool but you love me right I love you as a political bargaining tool yay hey pop who the heck are you I've written you a poem listen here tiny man can't you see that I'm busy but I'm your son I have another son as Arthur was in another palace being prepped to become King Henry lived with his mother and two sisters at Eltham where he was being trained for a church career and not just that Henry learnt languages he played sports he learned the recorder what a nerd am i right wrong Henry was the coolest kid around so I told my Latin teacher he could kiss my buddies anyway here's wonderful great scholars and theologians from across Europe came to meet and teach the young Prince Henry who by all accounts was a very enlightened bright and charming young boy everybody loved Henry and out of everything Henry was taught more than anything he came to adore and respect theology and Catholicism one of Henry's tutors was English poet laureate john skelton who wrote a textbook for henry that we still have today in it he wrote a number of important lessons for the young prince such as do not be mean loathe gluttony and do not violate widows important lessons for any nine-year-old boy around this time Henry's older brother Arthur now 15 years old was married to Catherine of Aragon sealing the union between England and Spain and then he died oh my alliance with Spain my poor poor alliance with Spain and your son sire oh yes of course my son but mostly my alliance with Spain hey pop who the heck are you oh yeah and just like that an unprepared Prince Henry was now the new heir to the throne and how about that alliance with Spain well their solution was simple hey boy see that full-grown woman over there that's gonna be your wife what my brother's widow yes you're a freaking weirdo man now in the Bible there's a verse that says marrying your brother's widow that's a big no-no so the King needed to convince the Pope and get his special permission hey can I please have my son marry his brother's widow yeah sure why not and so it was Henry's life was turned on its head as he was moved to the Royal Court next in line to the throne but tragedy struck when just a few months later his mother with whom he was very close suddenly died in childbirth the loss of his mother almost certainly had a big effect on the young boy in his older years King Henry the seventh went on a bit of a paranoid trip as was normal for a king at the time Henry the seventh had had to quell a number of rebellions and as he aged he became ever more suspicious of the nobility around him to keep them in check he began living huge ruinous finds left right and center Dukes bishops barons even his own mother no one was safe from his tyranny and the nobility of England began to suffer so when Henry the seventh finally got sick and died just after Christmas 1508 there was a lot of celebration not only because the tyrannical Henry the seventh was gone but because his replacement was the ever-popular charming and handsome 18-year old King Henry VIII eighth Henry married Catherine of Aragon in June 15:09 you may be wondering if it's so weird to marry your brother's widow and since he's now king couldn't Henry just decide not to well yes he could but by now Henry wanted to do the thing about Henry that was unlike many kings of the time was he married for love and he'd grown quite fond of Catherine very fond historians say their marriage was unusually good and so he was coronated King and water compared to his tyrannical father he was an absolute joy having the blood of two royal houses he was widely supported he was really really ridiculously good-looking and those famous caps could achieve world peace hey Henry now that you're King you know what that means costume party Henry Prince Turan the palace playing dress-up with his friends he wrote plays he sang songs he danced a true renaissance man very different from the gluttonous wife-killer we think of today in his early reign people from near and far would come to ask favors of the generous King Haman could I gain ownership of some land near Upton snodsbury sure thing pal hey could I be an earl or a baron or a by count or something anything you want man could I get like just like a really cool pig that has like metal wings and eight legs and shoots flipping lasers and it can groom or pigs out of it for extra pigs say no more hey guys I was just checking up on the financial report and what the hell we can't afford this Henry's canceled that he inherited from his father weren't happy with all the money he was just throwing around and they worked hard to curb the Kings spending since they controlled the royal seals needed to get stuff done at first they were largely able to control the young king and for Henry the most infuriating things of all was they wouldn't let him just with his friends because it was too dangerous nor would they let him do the thing he wanted most to go on a great glorious and expensive conquest against England's historic enemy France please guys I'll keep it cheap pow I'm glad you asked I've got up for Rome Oh code for the financial 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king of England man I want to go to war so bad but the council won't let me and maybe I can help with that whoa it's Cardinal Wolsey one of my best friends despite being an old-ass man Cardinal Wolsey knew that if he helped King Henry there would likely be something in it for him so what was his great intricate plan to curb the council's power you're the king dum-dum you can do whatever you want wha Wolsey began writing bills that simply didn't require the seals and thus Henry was back on top for his efforts Wolsey began to climb the ranks and he became something of a yes-man for King Henry encouraging Henry to frolic and play while Wolsey took care of business hey kid you'll want to go on an adventure do I ever the Pope was at war with France and he needed some help he offered the young impressionable King Henry 100 parmesan cheeses some wine and a Golden Rose if he came to the Pope's aid and Henry was all in at this point in his life he still respected the church and loved the Pope and here was a chance for war he had been waiting for he still didn't have an heir a fairly big problem for a monarch at a time but right now the only kind of Smashing he was interested in was smashing French guys in the face and so off he went the english already helped the french city of Calais from there henry made a glorious victory at the Battle of his spurts he took the French cities of tear om and torna word of his victories spread this was it here was the glory he had been waiting for back home his beautiful wife also led armies to victory in Scotland and better yet she was pregnant soon Henry would have an heir all of Henry's wildest dreams work coming true oh he ran out of money as the French prepared to invade Italy all Henri could do was go home well at least now I have an air to cheer me up bring me my son Henry this is Mary Mary that's a funny name for a boy Henry it's a girl this was Catherine's fifth pregnancy that had not resulted in a male heir happy Henry wasn't so happy anymore you still haven't given me a male heir well how do you know it's my problem maybe it's your problem Henry it couldn't be my problem because I've been bunking half your maid staff and one of them gave me a boy I mean sure yeah you know what maybe it's my problem I'll look into that cardinal wolsey now Henry's Lord Chancellor knew his job depended on keeping Henry happy and so he said well if you can't be the great warrior then how about the great peacemaker not as cool but okay and so the field of the cloth-of-gold a glamorous pea summit between England and France was held the King of France Francis the first was essentially the French version of King Henry and the whole thing was basically one giant codpiece measuring contest the two sides did agree to a peace treaty however it didn't last long you see there was a third major player in European politics at the time an exquisite specimen of royal inbreeding and heir to a huge inheritance and a chin that could hit a home run Holy Roman Emperor Charles the fifth key was Henry's wife's nephew Henry had helped him out in the task to put down a Spanish rebellion and now the two wanted to make an alliance and so a marriage was arranged marry I'd like to introduce you to your 22 year old fully grown adult cousin and now your future husband new helix inbred marry or all inbred with their new lines Charles and Henry agreed to team up and relaunch a campaign against France in 1522 the English landed and stored as far south as Agincourt but Charles didn't commit significant forces whoops sorry man not sure what happened I'll join it next year the next year England's sweat northern France almost taking Paris but once again where was Charles oh man I'm so sorry I promise next year I'll be there the next year came and a fed up Henry decided he was gonna sit this one out and just as Charles ravaged the French at the Battle of Pavia and captured the French King holy crap dude yeah I totally kicked Francis but that's great so can I have the French throne like we agreed know what and also I don't want to marry your ugly daughter anymore ugly have you seen your chin mummy says it's a strong chin for a strong boy as Henry's alliance with Charles fell apart Henry knew his days as a warrior were over this was a problem for Henry but it was a bigger problem for his wife Catherine of Aragon had two jobs the first was to give Henry a male heir but the second was to maintain an alliance with her relatives in Spain including her nephew she had failed and Henry's sexy eyes began to wander home from all his Wars Henry ate up his daily 5,000 calories of meat as an infatuation began to grow for one of his wives ladies-in-waiting and Bullen beautiful intelligent cultured she was exactly Henry's type now Henry had had dozens of mistresses including an sister but Ann didn't want to just be Henry sidechick she wanted to be his queen Henry sent dozens of letters thirsty love poems in one he proclaimed that he would like to kiss her pretty duckies Henry's loins were on fire but Anne kept him at just the right distance to drive him crazy and push him to find a way to get rid of his current wife Wolsey I want to divorce and as the representative of the Pope here in England I expect you to sort it out quickly and quietly I don't want this to turn into a europe-wide scandal you got it your majesty hey big papa my boy Henry says he wants to divorce his wife any chance to Henry's shock and horror Wolsey to fared the case back to the Pope in Rome to make matters worse after all the wars in Europe the Pope was currently under the thumb of Charles the fifth now everybody knew what was going on and Henry's divorce trial had become a pawn of Greater European politics for Wolsey the decision was a disaster his job was to keep Henry happy and Henry was very very unhappy nevertheless the divorce trial began Henry's case rested upon the Bible verse in Leviticus that claimed marrying your brother's widow would lead to childlessness and Henry was certainly having a hard time getting a male heir he argued that the Pope had got it wrong when he allowed Henry to marry his brother's widow and that now divorce was the only solution however the Pope in Charleston v acquired some interesting letters from an unknown source he wants to kiss her pretty Ducky's man this guy's loins are on fire the Pope now knew the case for divorce may not actually be found in Henry's Bible but in Henry's pants after escaping Charles v the Pope did send out one Cardinal campeggio to oversee the trial compared was an old man wracked with gap it took him six painful months to travel from Rome to England and when he finally got there this kept happening hey I need you to take a look at this evidence I can't my gout is acting up hey are you ready to take my testimony I can't my gout is acting up hey can you please make a decision I can't your gout is acting up my gout is acting up anvil in with her Protestant views in support of the Reformation suspected the Pope was just delaying for two whole years the trial dragged on and on and in the end the Pope simply said no no divorce for you Henry the king that had previously defended the Pope militarily from France and intellectually from the reformist ideas of Martin Luther who had once respected the Pope above all now found the Pope standing between him and fourth base your majesty what will you do I'm the king dumb-dumb I can do whatever I want for his failure Henry removed will see from the court a decision that was likely influenced by Anne Boleyn who disliked the Cardinal having fallen from grace and with potential charges of treason over his head Wolsey died of illness a year later then Henry said about removing England from the influence of the Pope hey if you do that Alex communicate you who cares man Oh No apathy my weakness Henry gathered theologians and scholars together to help him make his case against the Pope together they argued to the people of England that the Pope's rule over the church was basically a takeover of what had once been a self-governing national English Church and if that sounds familiar some historians do believe this moment may have laid the foundations for English Euro skepticism that's right brexit may have been influenced by Henry's explosive loins by and large the people gave Henry their support and those that didn't were gonna be in for a rough time but for now Henry assumed the role of supreme head of the English church and his next divorce trial was a foregone conclusion Catherine of Aragon was Aragon and Anne Boleyn was in alright I've amended the entire country to be with you so you'd better give me a son okay now did you get my letter about the Ducky's having finally married the girl of his dreams it was party time for him and waterpark life in the Tudor Court was non-stop huge banquets with each person eating on average 5,000 calories a day and no vegetables those are for poor people rich people ate meat and so you know what else is for rich people constipation but don't let that stop the party the toilets are communal and Henry himself was the center of everything he ate the best food he had twelve hundred pairs of shoes he didn't even have to wipe his own Bumba life was great everyone I give you your majesty King Henry the eighth but how did they pay for it all well influenced by his fairly Protestant new wife since Henry had overturned the organization of the church this is how they paid for it oh my goodness how awful selling fake fragments of the cross boughs of Jesus blood that you got from a duck using religion in this way this is terrible I must confiscate all this money at once yes how awful I must take all of this away immediately monasteries across the nation were dissolved and their riches placed in the Royal Conference obviously many people weren't too happy about this but Henry had a plan for that as well Henry's descent into tyranny had begun as any who rejected his new claim as supreme head of Church found their heads on the chopping block and so Henry party he danced he sang he ate he Justin be me Lovegood violated widow in 1536 Henry fell from his horse and a jousting accident not for the first time but certainly the heaviest fall he had taken yet some historians believe the brain damage caused by the incident may have violently accelerated Henry's descent into tyranny executions in England ramped up during his reign it's estimated 57 to 72 thousand people were put to death rich or poor big or small no one was safe and the most prominent victim of all was to be Henry's own wife it had been three years since their marriage and had been pregnant four times yet she had only been able to produce one healthy child a girl what's more it's possible she had been going around insulting Henry's manhood Henry's eyes once again began to wander his new top man Thomas Cromwell didn't want to end up like Cardinal Wolsey and so he came up with a plan there was a court musician who had been quite flirtatious in public with the Queen well Thomas Cromwell and his boys got a forced confession out of him saying that it didn't stop at innocent flirtation and the charges came rolling in listen em We Need to Talk oh no you're gonna divorce me aren't you just like your last wife on No come here Shh no I'm not gonna divorce you it's much worse than that Anne was charged with adultery perversion even incest and plotting to kill the king himself the jury found her guilty including her own uncle and ex-fiance both fearing the wrath of the king and on May 19th 1536 Anne Boleyn was Anne Burrell apt literally the next day Henry married one of Anne's ladies-in-waiting Jane Seymour his third wife after Anne had smack talked his manhood and since he still had no male heir Henry went on a campaign to ensure the public knew he was as virile as it gets he had this famous portrait painted of the manliest men I've ever seen and later he would even have his physician make a declaration about his health King Henry is a fine specimen of a man and please don't make me say this say it and every time I look at him I wish I was a woman the truth is after his jesting accident the king had badly injured his leg and was no longer very active yet he was still eating his daily 5,000 calories so by now Henry was extremely unhealthy for the remainder of his life he would incur a number of illnesses and his injured leg ulcers would booze stinking pus a fine specimen of a man indeed on the church front Henry's new and now pregnant wife was a devout Catholic and she pleaded with the King to reinstate the monasteries Henry was sick of wives meddling in his business and he bluntly warned her to remember what happened to n Berlin since splitting with the Pope Henry had been hard at work determining the theology of his new Church of England it kept many Catholic traditions while on the other hand embracing some reformist ideas such as requiring the use of a new Bible not in Latin but in English the cover of Henry's new Bible depicted the people appearing to worship a giant King Henry and in the corner there's some people being put to death just for good measure for any who opposed Henry's ideas whether Catholic or Protestant for any who rebelled against him it would be off with their heads in October 1537 Henry finally got what he had been waiting for his wife Jane gave birth to a healthy boy however the triumph soon turned to tragedy as Jane Seymour died days later from complications during the birth henry mourned jane the woman who had given him a son for two years your majesty it's time to choose your next wife thomas not now can't you see I'm in mourning that one the woman Thomas Cromwell had lined up for Henry's next marriage was the sister of a powerful German Duke but all Henry cared about was that she was pretty as pot and Thomas Cromwell promised that indeed she was however when she arrived in England Henry was less than pleased your majesty let me introduce you to your fourth wife Anne of Cleves what what's that smell I think it's your leg sire no it's Anne of Cleves she's ugly this is treason what off with his head Henry found his new wife so repulsive that he never consummated the marriage and divorced her just six months later and for bringing Henry an ugly stinky woman along with additional charges of plotting treason Thomas Cromwell lost his head the very same day of chromos execution Henry married his fifth wife the famed Beauty Catherine Howard she's believed to have only been 17 at the time Henry was 49 and like Anne of Cleves Catherine Howard didn't last long you see for some reason she may not have been entirely satisfied with her 49 year old fine specimen of a man and it's possible she engaged in a number of extramarital affairs including one with her cousin Thomas Culpepper when Henry found out he was devastated how could she do this to me but sire don't you have hundreds of mistresses shut up Barry that's not the point your majesty you're crying I'm not crying it's just that sometimes when I get sad water comes out of my eyes for her treason Catherine Howard met the same fate as Anne Boleyn in 1542 so we've had divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded look out here comes survived Henry married the daughter of a royal official Catherine Parr in 1543 and she appears to have been a good companion to Henry she cared for the aging king who by now is so heavy it took several men to winch him onto his horse she acted as a mediator within the family and convinced the King to restore his two daughters to the line of succession their marriage did have one hiccup however when Catherine dared disagree with the king over the subject of theology it's a miracle because when the priest says the words of institution the bread turns into the body of Christ well if you put the bread in a box for three months is it a miracle that it turns mouldy trazan you can't just call everything treason Henry the king called for her arrest as serious charges were placed over her head however in the end she told Henry that she had not been disagreeing with him but simply learning from him and so when the guards came to arrest her the King told them to make like an M and cleave Catherine Parr stayed with Henry right until the end as he aged into his later years in increasing pain and ill health he grew ever more suspicious and Moody the once generous promising young king was now feared by all around him me sigmund I don't have much longer hold me of course sire do you have any final wishes how about one last conquest in France and so in 1544 Henri made for Calais the pesky French had been supporting the Scottish in their ongoing Wars with England and they also had Henry some money so the extremely unhealthy King personally led a siege against the French city of Boulogne the English dug tunnels under the castle and on the 13th of September the French surrender a glorious victory for Henry in actuality the whole misadventure nearly bankrupt England and they ended up giving bellowing back to the French a few years later but don't tell Henry he's having his moment finally in 1547 a 55 year old Henry lapsing in and out of consciousness passed away his son Edward succeeded him but died just five years later his daughter married briefly took the reins and steered the country back towards the Pope but then his second daughter embraced reformist ideas and gradually transformed England into a Protestant country Henry's desperation to marry Anne Boleyn and his resulting feud with the Pope had changed the course of English history and religion forever unfortunately none of Henry's children had heirs and when Elizabeth the first died Henry's lineage ended with the House of Stuart replacing the House of Tudor so then you might think all that effort a life filled with so much frustration yet he never conquered France he barely had a male heir and his lineage died out the egotistical man Henry grew sick and cruel and then died so why are we all so fascinated with King Henry the eighth why not Henry the second or a fourth well without mentioning the many important things his reign did achieve one of his biggest goals was to go down in history and you can put a big green check beside that one because everything he did and how he asserted his control and authority over everyone around him has come to be viewed as the epitome of the word King and also because of the wife killings yeah definitely the wife killings [Music]

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Keywords: henry viii, england, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr, Henry the 8th, tudors, thomas cromwell, thomas wolsey, elizabeth i, king henry viii

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Length: 26min 46sec (1606 seconds)

Published: Mon May 04 2020

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