OVERSIMPLIFIED - HENRY VIII - Historian Reaction

welcome back everybody to another reaction video you guys seem to be really enjoying these so i thought i would dive into another one today and today we're gonna be looking at henry the eighth uh oversimplified i love oversimplified videos because they take a lot of complicated history and kind of break it down to the basics now that means sometimes they don't cover a lot of the details that some of us who really love history would like so what i'm going to do is i'm going to watch this enjoy it and then try to kind of fill in some of the gaps for you and what he's talking about here 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 rule the realm finally a henry won henry the so let's talk about this for a second right off the bat he kind of just glosses over uh a very important part of what brought henry viii to the throne in the first place which is the wars of the roses this goes all the way back to when edward iii was king of england in the 1300s and edward iii his eldest son was known as the black prince prince edward you see him portrayed and what's the movie the knights tale with heath ledger and the black prince you see him briefly well the black prince actually died a year before his father did i think edward iii died in 1377 his son died the year before and so it was the black prince's son richard who becomes king and richard was not a very good king richard ii things did not go well long story short his cousin henry bowlingbrook basically usurps the crown from him as henry iv and the fourth is followed by his son henry v who we all remember the band of brother speech the big victory at agincourt uh henry v basically conquers france and uh gets it to the place where his son is going to be named the heir to both the english and french thrones henry vi well unfortunately henry v dies at just the age of 35 and henry vi comes to the crow the throne and of course remember that these henries are not even really the the proper line to inherit the throne that's a completely different line well henry vi comes to the throne as an infant and things just go downhill from there henry vi has some real mental health issues it has a number of breaks and breakdowns where at times he doesn't even speak for long periods of time and so that's when the duke of york who actually descends from the uh the legitimate line to the throne richard's real heir rather than henry bollingbrook who was way down the line and so long story short they have all these wars over between the house of york and the house of lancaster which is uh henry vi line and they basically kill all each other off until basically nobody's left richard iii who is the younger brother of edward iv who uh was the king the son of the duke of york who eventually defeats henry vi and takes the throne richard iii is the last of the line of the duke of york and through a series of um illegitimate marriages and and lines that had actually been disinherited henry tudor ends up the heir to the lancaster side uh and so henry vii defeats richard iii of the battle of bosworth and becomes king seven and he had his 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 how 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 yep and catherine of aragon is the daughter of ferdinand and isabella the ferdinand and isabella that you probably grew up learning about that sponsored christopher columbus's trip to the new world ferdinand and isabella themselves had just come through a time where they were basically the monarchs of two separate countries um and they brought them together to form the nation of spain uh so that's kind of spain's kind of a new real powerful uh kind of world power on the state uh world stage 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 eltom 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 us my buddies anyway here's wonderwall great scholars and the legends from across europe came to meet and teach the young prince henry who by all accounts was a very enlightened bright and charming young man handsome everybody loved henry and out of everything henry was taught more than anything he came to adore and respect theology and catholicism i should mention too that henry and arthur his older brother are legitimate heirs all the way along and the reason why is because henry vii married elizabeth of york who was the daughter of edward iv who actually probably had more of a claim to the throne than her husband henry did so through their children they were merging the houses of york and lancaster and and so arthur and then later his brother henry were the heirs to both the houses of york and lancaster 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 yeah 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 line switches it didn't quite happen that fast but it did happen fairly quickly but he joked to some of his buddies that the previous night after their wedding that he had been in spain that was the way he said it uh so everyone at the time assumed they had consummated the marriage and of course that's important because it's going to come back to be an issue later on 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 the 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 no 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 dispensation it's called 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 so she was like 37 years old and this is actually not long before henry becomes king she dies of what they called child bed fever at the time and again this is something really important in henry's life because much later on he'll have a wife who dies from the same thing and he knew right away what it was because he had seen his mother die of it now this didn't happen right away in fact henry only actually married catherine of aragon after he came to the throne and became king king henry vii went on a bit of a paranoid trip as was normal for a king at the time henry vii 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 loving 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 vii finally got sick and died just after christmas 1508 there was a lot of celebration not only because the tyrannical henry vii was gone but because his replacement was the ever popular charming and handsome 18 year old king henry viii henry married catherine of aragon in june 1509 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 the thing about henry that was unlike many kings of the time was he married for love and he had grown quite fond of catherine very fond historians say their marriage was unusually good she's actually older than him because remember she was supposed to marry his brother and so catherine's like i think eight or nine years older than henry so she's in her mid to late 20s by the time they get married so he was coronated king and what a king 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 cavs could achieve world peace hey henry they're actually were people who wrote about his cavs that's why he refers to that henry pranced around the palace playing dress-up with his friends he wrote plays he sang songs he danced a true renaissance man very different he wrote music he wrote uh he is reported to have written a song for anne boleyn called green sleeves which we all know today and which was eventually turned into the song what child is this but we don't know for sure if he actually wrote that but it was said that he did today in his early reign people from near and far would come to ask favors of the generous king hey man could i gain ownership of some land near upton snottsbury 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 freaking metal wings and eight legs and shoes flipping lasers and it can grow more 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 council 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 king's 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 friends please guys i'll keep it cheap how now his sister marries the king of france and his other sister marries the king of scotland and of course he ends up at war with both of them at different times during his reign sexy cavs excessive spending and war with france henry wanted glory he wanted to go down in history yeah if he didn't go to war in france was he even the king of england he wanted to be like henry so bad but the council won't let me hey maybe i can help with that carnivals cardinal woolsey yeah one of my best friends despite being an old ass man cardinal woolsey knew that if he helped king henry there'd likely be something in it for him so what was his great intricacy curb the council's power you're the king dum-dum you can do whatever you want what wulsey began writing bills that simply didn't require the seals and so it was said at that time that the most dangerous thing you could do was to help a king to see what he could do and that was the case that's why you come into the idea of absolute monarchy it never really occurred to kings that they could take that power back and so that's what woolsey helps him do now woolsey was hated by the other members of the council not just because of some of these things but also because woolsey was actually from kind of a a low-born background and this is something that henry did a lot he would often promote people like woolsey later on uh he promotes cromwell and these are people who weren't of noble birth and so they were viewed very poorly by those who were from noble birth thus henry was back on top for his efforts woolsey began to climb the ranks and he became something of a yes man for king henry encouraging henry to frolick and play while wolsey took care of business hey kid you 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 and he actually uh and i don't know if he'll touch on this or not because i haven't actually watched this i just wanted to react as i saw it uh henry viii actually gets named defender of the faith by the pope uh in part for this but also because he he actually wrote a series of responses to the uh protestant reformation that was happening in in mainland europe uh he he wrote these like letters denouncing uh martin luther and they kind of went back and forth a little bit and uh so he was viewed very highly by the church at this time a fairly big problem for a monarch at the 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 held the french city of calais from there henry made a glorious victory at the battle of the spurs he took the french cities of tehruan and tornai word of his victory spread now it's called the battle of the spurs because the french kind of turned and used their spurs to run away and so it came to be known as that was it here was the glory he had been waiting for back home his beautiful wife also led armies to victory yeah she ran the country better yet she was pregnant soon henry would have an heir all of henry's wildest dreams were coming true oh he ran out of money as the french prepared to invade italy all henry could do was go home well at least now i have an heir to cheer me up bring me my son henry this is mary that's a funny name for a boy henry it's a girl that's the future bloody mary this was katherine'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 i see how it works my problem because i've been bonking half your mate staff and one of them gave me a boy uh i mean sure yeah so he has a son that they named henry fitzroy fitzroy being son of the king and he was actually being groomed to possibly be legitimized and succeed his father if henry hadn't later had a son but henry fitzroy ends up dying as a teenager just like henry's other uh male son who lived to be that long uh henry fitzroy was the the son of uh elizabeth blunt who was one of uh the queen's ladies in waiting which kind of became a theme for henry yeah you know what maybe it's my problem i'll look into that cardinal woolsey 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 the feeling of the cloth of gold cloth of gold a glamorous peace 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 cod piece measuring contest the two sides did agree to they wrestled however it didn't last long you see there was a third major player in european politics yeah he kind of glosses over that too but they actually had a wrestling match henry and francis and francis won francis was quite a bit bigger than henry was if i remember right uh and that did not go down too well with henry it takes at the time an exquisite specimen of royal inbreeding an heir to a huge inheritance and a chin that could hit a homeless catherine of aragon's he was henry's wife's nephew henry had helped him out in the past to put down a spanish rebellion and now the two wanted to make an alliance and so a marriage was arranged mary i'd like to introduce you to your 22 year old fully grown adult cousin and now your future husband ew helix inbred merry we're all inbred through their new alliance charles and henry agreed to team up and relaunch a campaign against france in 1522 the english landed and stormed as far south as agincourt but charles didn't commit significant forces whoops sorry man not sure what happened i'll join in next year the next year england swept 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 going to sit this one out and just as charles ravaged the french at the battle of pavilla and captured the french king holy crap dude yeah i totally kicked france's butt that's great so can i have the french throne like we agreed [Music] no and henry actually had a legitimate claim to the french throne in fact the english kings for hundreds of years uh styled themselves not only as king of england but king of france as well what and also i don't want to marry your ugly daughter anymore ugly have you seen your chin mommy says it's a strong chin for a strong boy well your mummy was crazy 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 five thousand calories of meat as an infatuation began to grow for one of his wife's ladies in waiting and berlin beautiful who had previously along with her sister mary been probably mistresses of king francis of france and then they both became mistresses of henry viii intelligent cultured she was exactly henry's type now henry had had dozens of mistresses including anne's sister but anne didn't want to just be henry's side chick 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 woolsey i want a 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 woolsey deferred 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 v now everybody knew what was going on and henry's divorce trial had become a pawn of greater european politics yep for wallsey 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 and charles v acquired some interesting letters from an unknown source he wants to kiss her pretty duckies 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 compagio to oversee the trial compagio was an old man racked with gout it took him six painful months to travel from room 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 now hey can you please make a decision i can't your gout is acting up my gout is acting up anne boleyn with her protestant views and 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 dum-dum i can do whatever i want what for his failure henry removed wall see from the court a decision that was likely influenced by anne boleyn who disliked the cardinal having fallen from the ground and with potential charges of treason over his head woolsey died of illness a year later then henry set about removing england from the influence of the pope hey if you do that i'll excommunicate 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 euroskepticism that's right brexit may have been influenced by henry's explosive loins not only that but uh henry was a loyal catholic uh people misunderstand that henry was trying to break away from the catholic church he wasn't he to to the end of his days remained faithful to the doctrines of the catholic church it was his break from the pope not the catholic church it's just he didn't recognize the pope's supremacy over the english catholic church by and large the people gave henry their support and those that didn't we're going to 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 eric gone and anne boleyn was in alright i've abandoned the entire country to be with you so you'd better give me a son okay yeah now did you get my letter about the duckies having finally married the girl of his dreams it was party time for henry and what a party 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 1200 pairs of shoes he didn't even have to wipe his own bum bum life was great everyone i give you your majesty king henry viii 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 surprisingly fragments of the cross vowels 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 so this was one just one of the most tragic moments in history because uh when henry starts suppressing the monasteries they basically destroyed these thousand-year-old churches including the tombs of a number of uh kings that go back all the way to uh you know well before william the conqueror and a lot of what kind of went wrong in henry's reign begins with his suppression of the monasteries immediately monasteries across the nation were dissolved and their riches placed in the royal coffers 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 the english church found their heads on the chopping block and so henry among the people that he executes uh for re fusing to acknowledge him as head of the church were john fisher who was named a cardinal by the pope uh in part to to hopefully get him out of uh what he was facing with execution from henry but that didn't matter uh he was executed anyway which was a huge no-no executing a cardinal of the church and then of course he also executes thomas more who both of them john fisher and thomas moore became catholic saints and thomas moore had actually been henry's chancellor one of his dearest friends one of his best advisors and thomas moore was a very loyal subject of henry he just would not acknowledge henry's head of the church and that was just a step too far for henry he danced he sang he ate he jousted and this is where it all goes downhill love gluttony he had a jousting accent almost died in 1536 henry fell from his horse in 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 i don't know so much it was brain damage from the accident but he did suffer a terrible wound to his leg that never completely healed and for the rest of his life which was only i think 11 years uh it festered and it smelled and the infection is probably what led to a lot of his tyranny it also led to us ramped up during his reign it's estimated 57 to 72 000 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 going to be it's great questions i'm 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 woolsey 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 anne we need to talk oh no you're going to divorce me aren't you just like your last wife on no come here 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 so basically henry uses this opportunity and so does cromwell to get rid of all their enemies in one fell swoop so it's not only just about getting rid of anne they get rid of her brother because they accuse her of incest with her brother and they get rid of several guys in the court that were uh people that henry just wanted to be rid of jury found her guilty including her own uncle and ex-fiance both fearing the wrath of the king and on may 19 1536 and her uncle was the duke of norfolk literally the next day henry married one of anza's 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 man 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 after his jousting 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 ooze 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 anne boleyn 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 and this was a big deal because um up until that time they had been executing people for translating the bible into english including in england uh so it was it was a big deal that he permitted an english bible and they showed robert ask robert ask was one of the leaders of what was known as the pilgrimage of grace this was a a group of northern catholic men who uh were upset about the disillusion of the monasteries and wanted something done about it now he wasn't beheaded he was actually hanged in chains at york would be off with their heads in october 1537 henry finally got what he had been waiting for his wife jane and then she did 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 and he's actually buried next year in windsor castle 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 pie and thomas cromwell promised that indeed she was however when she arrived in england henry she looks like a horse your majesty let me introduce you to your fourth wife anne of cleves what's that smell uh 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 now interestingly thomas cromwell is actually the i think great uncle to oliver cromwell who would one day lead a civil war against the king but yeah anne of cleves was smart in that she kind of went away quietly and agreed with the divorce and actually became very good friends with henry they would play cards together she was given her own cast palace in richmond where she got to live the rest of her life she actually died fairly young too but she's buried in england she never went back to germany uh she actually handled it really really well very same day of cromwell's execution henry married his fifth wife the famed beauty katherine 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 extra marital affairs culprit 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 she was actually executed along with lady rochford who was the widow of anne boleyn's brother see lady rochford had actually been the one behind the scenes who was organizing the liaisons between catherine howard and thomas culpepper culpepper along with another guy who would actually um i can't remember his name oh it's frances darum so catherine howard had lived in kind of a she was like an orphan and she grew up in the the house of the the dowager duchess of norfolk who was actually a relative of hers she was related to the howards who were the dukes of norfolk and she was actually a cousin of ambulance but she had had this relationship with francis darum before she ever met the king but unfortunately because of that francis darum he shows up after she becomes queen and kind of extorts her for position and saying hey you don't want anybody to know that we kind of slept together before you became queen and that became his downfall but also was part of hers and so he was actually hang drawn and quartered whereas thomas culpepper because he was part of henry's house he was actually one of henry's grooms he was only beheaded and of course she was beheaded and lady rochford had actually gone crazy while in prison whether it was pretend or was legit henry actually had to have have parliament pass a law in uh kind of predating back before uh lady rochefort was arrested saying that they could execute someone who was mentally ill so we've had divorced beheaded died divorced beheaded look out here comes survived 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 was 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 moldy treason 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 in regards to him 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 sigmund i don't have much longer hold me of course sire do you have any final wishes how about how about one last conquest in france and so in 1544 henry made for kalei the pesky french had been supporting the scottish in their ongoing wars with england and they also owed henry some money so the extremely unhealthy king personally led a siege against the french city of boulogne the english dug tunnels into the castle and on the 13th of september the french surrendered a glorious victory for henry in actuality the whole misadventure nearly bankrupt england and they ended up giving boulogne back to the french a few years later but shh don't tell henry he's having his moment finally in 1547 a 55 year old henry collapsing in and out of consciousness passed away his son edward succeeded him but died just five years later his daughter mary briefly took the reigns 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 stewart replacing the house of tudor so the house of stuart was actually descended from henry's sister so his sister marries king james the fourth and they have a son james the fifth and then james the fifth uh i think it was him that had a uh had james no wasn't james vi there was uh after that was uh mary queen of scots and then mary queen of scots had a son who became james vi of scotland and it was his uh his job to become james the first of england and that's where you get the house of stuart so a lot of fascinating uh story there and i encourage you to read up on the wars of the roses henry viii so much of modern history can be traced back to things that happened during henry viii's reign and of course you know his strong desire to have a male heir uh was unfounded because one of the greatest monarchs in english history then becomes his daughter elizabeth so uh if only he had known you know but thanks for watching drop a like if you would let me know your thoughts use the comment section below and we'll see you again soon with another video thanks

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Length: 37min 32sec (2252 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 11 2020