The Six Wives of King Henry VIII Part 1 Narrated

[Music] Henry's first wife was Catalina trust tomorrow otherwise known as Catherine of Aragon today her name is most commonly spelled with the same but she spelled in signed her name with a K Catherine and Henry were married for 23 years 11 months and 12 days Catherines motto as Queen of England was humble and loyal her budge symbol is a crowned pomegranate the pomegranate is an ancient symbol for fertility and regeneration it would have been seen as a very apt symbol for Catherine and the promise of heirs that her marriage brought the chrome is an emblem of victory and sovereignty its significance as their decoration is the ultimate level of rank and power catherine was quite short in stature she was of a very fair complexion had blue eyes and her hair color that was between reddish blond and Orban in her youth she was described as the most beautiful creature in the world and that there was nothing lacking in her that the most beautiful girl should have Thomas More and Lord Herbert would reflect later in her lifetime that in regard to her appearance that there were fear women who could compete with the queen in her prime she was the youngest surviving child of King Ferdinand the second of Aragon and Queen Isabella the first of Castile at an early age Katherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur Prince of Wales heir apparent to the English throne due to their English ancestry she inherited from her mother the two were married by proxy on the 19th of May er 1499 and corresponded by writing each of the letters in Latin when arthur turned 15 it was decided that they were old enough to be married in person on the 4th of November they're met for the first time they spoke to each other in Latin but found that they could not understand each other spoken conversation because they had learned different Latin pronunciations once murid the couple was sent to live at Ludlow castle on the border of Wales a few months later their birth became ill possibly with sweating sickness which was sweeping the area at the time Arthur died on the 2nd of April 15 or 2 he was only 16 years old Catherine recovered to find herself a teenager adore a papal dispensation was obtained to enable her to marry Henry law the marriage did not take place until after Henry came to the throne in 1509 seven years after Arthur's death she was 23 and Henry was eating on Saturday the 23rd of June 15 or 9 the traditional eve of coronation procession to Westminster was greeted by a large and enthusiastic crowd as was the custom the couple spent the night before their coronation at the Tower of London on Midsummer's dear Sunday the 24th of June 1509 Henry the 8th and Catherine were anointed and crowned together by the Archbishop of Canterbury at a lavish ceremony at Westminster Abbey in August 15 1 I 2 months after the wedding Catherine's first pregnancy was announced on the 31st of January 1510 she delivered a stillborn girl Catherine was pregnant seven times all together in mere 1510 four months after the loss of her first child Catherine announced her second pregnancy as son Henry Duke of Cornwall was born on the 1st of January 15 11 on the 22nd of February after only 52 years of life the young prince died by early 1513 Catherine was pregnant again on the 30th of June she was left as regions while Henry went to fight in France on the 17th of September she went into labor prematurely and give birth to a boy who died shortly after in June 1514 Catherine announced her fourth pregnancy on the 8th of January 15 15 she gave birth to a stillborn boy in the summer of 1515 Katherine announced her fifth pregnancy however less hope was placed on air following her previous pregnancies on the 18th of February 15 16 katherine delivered a healthy girl at 4 a.m. at Greenwich palace in Kent she was named Mary and christened three days later despite his evident disappointment Henry said that if it were a girl this time then surely healthy boys would follow in the autumn of 1517 Catherine suffered another miscarriage in February 1518 Catherine announced her 7th pregnancy on the 10th of November 15 18 she give birth to a daughter but the child lived only a few hours on the 11th of June 1513 Henry appointed Catherine region in England with the titles of governor of the realm and cupped in general while he went to France on a military campaign the Scots invaded and on the 3rd of September 1513 she ordered Thomas Lovell to raise an army Catherine roared north in full armor to address the troops despite being heavily pregnant at the time she sent a letter to Henry along with the pace of their bloodied Court of King James the 4th of Scotland who died in the battle for Henry to use as a banner in 15-20 Catherine's nephew the holy roman emperor charles v pierre de state visit to england and she urged henry to enter an alliance with charles rather than with france immediately after his departure she accompanied henry to france on the celebrated visit of francis the first the field of the cloth of gold within two years war was declared against france and the emperor was once again welcome in England where plants were a fought to patrol him to Katherine's daughter the Princess Mary in 1525 invidia to became an homage of Anne Boleyn a lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine Katherine's behavior to Anne was impeccable at first Katherine tried to help an resist Henry's advances at a card game Katherine instigated with an Katherine's famous remark to an Moors milady earn you have good HUP to stop at a king but you are not like others you will have all anon when a lady spoke ill of Anne Catherine said prayer for her because the time will come when you shall pity and lament her kiss Katherine was no longer able to bear children by this time Henry began to believe that his marriage was cursed and sought confirmation from the Bible which he interpreted to say that if a man marries his brother's wife the couple will be childless even if her marriage to Arthur had not been consummated and Katherine would insist to her dying day that she had came to Henry's bed a virgin Henry's interpretation of that Bible passage meant that their marriage had been wrong in the eyes of God it soon became the one absorbing object of Henry's desires to secure an enormous Katherine was defiant when it was suggested that she quietly retired to a nunnery saying God never called me to a nunnery I am the King's true and legitimate wife Wolsey went so far as to convene an ecclesiastical Court in England with a representative of the poor presiding and Henry and Catherine herself in attendance the Pope had no intention of allowing a decision to be reached in England and his legacy was recalled the poor forbid Henry to before a decision was given in Rome Wolsey had failed and was dismissed from public office in 1529 Wolsey then began a secret plot to have unbalanced into exile and began communicating with the poor to that end when this was discovered Henry ordered was his arrest and had he not been terminally ill and died in 1530 he'd most likely have been executed for treason when Henry decided to annul his marriage to Katherine John Fischer became her most trusted counselor and one of her Chiefs supporters he appeared in the legate's Court on her behalf where he shocked people with the directness of his language and by declaring that like John the Baptist he was ready to die on behalf of the insolubility of marriage Henry was saw enraged by this that he wrote a long Latin address in answer to Fischer's speech the removal of the course to Rome ended Fischer's law in this matter but Henry never forgave him until the end of her life Katherine would refer to herself as Henry's only lawful wedded wife and England's only rightful queen and her servants continued to address her by the title Henry refused her the right to any title but Dowager Princess of Wales in recognition of her position as his brother's widow in 1535 she was transferred to campbellton castle there she confined herself to one room which she left all you to attend Mass dressed in the her shirt if the order of st. Francis and fasted constantly she was forbidden to see her daughter Mary they were also forbidden to communicate in writing but sympathizes discreetly ferried letters between the two Henri offered both mother and daughter better quarters and permission to see each other if they would acknowledge and Berlin is the new queen in late December 1535 sensing her death was near Catherine made her will and draw to her nephew the Emperor Charles v asking him to protect her daughter Mary Catherine died dirt campbellton castle on the 7th of January 1536 the following day news of her death reached the king at the time there were rumours that she was poisoned but it was more slightly cancer of the heart on the day of Catherines funeral and Berlin miscarried a boy Catherine was buried in Peterborough Cathedral with the ceremony due to her position as a Dowager Princess of Wales and not a queen Henry did not attend the funeral and for beard Mary to attend [Music] her tomb can be seen by the public and there is hardly a time when it is not decorated with flowers or pomegranates Henry's second wife was Anne Burrell in Ireland Henry will married for two years 11 months and 19 days as Queen Anne's motto was the most happy her budge symbol is a crowned Falcon hoarding a scepter on a tree stump with red and white flowers sprouting the White Falcon was derived from the heraldic crest of the Earl's of almond as her father had been recognised as the heir the Falcon do not someone who was fond of the highest pursuit hunting and falconry were such pursuits in the deers of heraldry the tree stone award stock refer to Henry the eighth's right to the throne but this combined with the Falcon landing on it and losers bursting forth spoke clearly of life bursting forth from the Tudor stop in other words Anne's fertility and ability to bear sons the Roses on Ambulance barge are not the two divorces but rather the red rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York this is also referring to Henry the eighth's right to the throne of England through his father Henry Tudor Earl of Richmond a Lancastrian and his mother Elizabeth of York they brought the claims of their Lancastrian and Yorkists together the crown is an imperial crown rather than a monix crane the sceptre not only refers to Henry and Anna's king and queen but is also a symbol of god-given Authority she reserved tall height hide olive colored skin thick dark brown hair so long she could sit on it and dark brown eyes which often appeared black Thor's large dark eyes were often singled out in descriptions of an she had her considerably strong laws and a definite wide mouth with very slim lips Nicolas sander described an as rather tall of stature with black hair and an oval fierce of sallow complexion she had a projecting tooth under her upper lip and on her right hand had six fingers a servant of Woolsey's recalled how and stood out among the women a court for her excellent grace and behavior the French Court here Branton in his memoirs talked about how undressed with marvellous taste which was copied by all the fashionable ladies a court the people of England described on as a googly eyed of the Venetian ambassador described an as not one of the handsomest woman in the world she is a middle in stature with a swarthy complexion long neck wide mouth was not much raised and her eyes which are black and beautiful take great effect on those who serve her unhhhh was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn later Earl of Wiltshire and Earl of almond and his wife Lady Elizabeth Howard litter tradition would see that the balloons were practically middle-class but recent research has proven that Anne Boleyn was born a great lady her great-grandparents included a Lord Mayor of London a Duke and Earl two aristocratic ladies and a knight she was certainly far better borne than three of Henry's other wives Jane Seymour Catherine Parr or her cousin Catherine Howard and early education was typical for a woman of her class her academic education was limited to arithmetic her family genealogy grammar history reading spelling and writing she also developed domestic skills such as dancing embroidery good manners household management music needlework and singing and learned to play games such as cards chess and dice and she was also taught archery falconry horseback riding and hunting in the ladylike sidesaddle Anne's father secured a place with Margaret Archduchess of Austria and stared with Margaret from spring 1513 until her father arranged for her to attend Henry the eighth's sister Mary who was about to marry Louis the 12th of France in October 1514 in France and was a maid of honor to Queen Mary and then to Mary's fifteen-year-old stepdaughter Queen Claude with whom she stayed means seven years and European education ended in 1521 when her father summoned her back to England Mary Boleyn unbalanced order sister had earlier been recalled from France in late 1519 ostensibly to end her affairs with the French King and his courtiers she married William Carey a minor noble in February 15 20 at Greenwich with Henry the 8th in attendance soon after Mary Boleyn became the English King's mistress there is a possibility that Henry was the father of Warren or birth of Mary Billings children born during her first marriage and was courted by Henry Percy and entered into a secret betrothal with him the romance was broken off when Percy's father refused to support their engagement Cardinal Wolsey refused the March also and was sent from court to her family's country side estates upon her return to court she entered into the service of Catherine of Aragon in 1526 Henry the Eighth became enamored of Anne and began his pursuit and was a skillful player in the game of courtly love which was often played in the antechambers this may have been how she caught the eye of Henry who was also an experienced player and resisted the Kings attempts to seduce her refusing to become his mistress and often leaving court for the seclusion of hever castle but within a year he proposed marriage to her and she accepted both assumed an annulment could be obtained within a matter of months and saw an opportunity in Henry's and fluctuation and the convenient moral quandary she determined that she would yield to his embraces or as his acknowledged queen she began to take her place at his side and policy and in stairs but not yet in his bed in 1528 sweating sickness broke out with great severity in London the mortality rate was great and the court was dispersed Henry left London frequently changing his residence ambolyn retreated to the balloon residence at Hever Castle but contracted the illness Henry sent his old physician to Hever to care for Anne when shortly afterwards she recovered she wore this letter to Wolsey and thanks for the gift and letter he sent her while she was ill my lord in my most humble why's that my poor heart who think I do thank your grace for your kind letter and for your rich and goodly present the which I shall never be able to deserve without your help of which I have hitherto had so great plenty that all the days of my life I am most bound of all creatures next the King's grace to love and serve your grace of the which I beseech you never to doubt that ever I shall vary from this thought as long as any breath is in my body and is touching your Grace's troubles with the sweat I thank our Lord that I am desired and prayed for our escaped and that is the King's grace and you not doubting that God has preserved you both agree causes known a lonely of his high wisdom and as for the coming of the luckiest I desire that much and if it be God's pleasure I pray him to send this matter shortly to a good end and then I trust my Lord to recompense part of your great pains in the which I must require you in the meantime to accept my good will in the stead of the power the which must proceed party you as our Lord and with whom I beseech to send you long life with countenance in honor written by the hand of her that is most bound to be your humble and obedient servant Anne Boleyn on the first of September 15:33 Henry granted her the title of Marquess of Pembroke sometime near the end of 1530 - and finally give where and by December she was pregnant to avoid any question of the legitimacy of the child Henry was forced into action sometime near st. Paul's Day which is January 25th in 1533 Anne and Henry were secretly married although the Kings marriage to Katherine was not dissolved in the Kings mind it had never existed so he was free to marry whomever he wanted on May 23rd the archbishop officially proclaimed that the marriage of Henry and Katherine was invalid Anne was crowned queen consort on the festive June 15:33 and a magnificent ceremony at Westminster Abbey with a banquet afterwards she was the last Queen consort of England to be crowned separately from her husband or like any other Queen consort Anne was crowned with sin Edward's crown which had previously been used to crown or near monic this was more slightly done because aunt pregnancy was visible by then and she was carrying the heir who was presumed to be male the coronation was not a success despite its expense Anne was not popular with the people of England insults was shouted and mocking laughter was heard unsettled into a quiet routine at the King's favorite residence Greenwich palace to prepare for the birth of her baby the child was born slightly premature on the 7th of September 15:33 between 3 and 4 afternoon and give birth to a girl who was christened Elizabeth but the birth of a girl was a heavy blow to her parents since they had confidently expected a boy the French King had already been us to stand as his Godfather now the prepared letters announcing the birth of a prince had an S he Esteli added to read princess and the traditional jousting tournament for the birth of an heir was canceled nevertheless the infant princess was given a splendid christening but unfair the Cullens daughter Mary now stripped of her title of princess posed a threat to Elizabeth's position Henry soothed his wife's fears by separating Mary from her many servants and sending her to serve at her field house where Princess Elizabeth would be living with her old sizeable staff and frequently visited her daughter at her field after a stillbirth or miscarriage around Christmas 1534 Henry was discussing with Cranmer and Cromwell the possibility of divorcing her without having to return to Catherine nothing Kim of the issue as the royal couple reconciled and spent the summer of 1535 on progress on the 8th of January 1536 news of Katharine of Aragon's death reached the king and on the following day Henry and Anne wore yellow from head to toe and celebrated Catherine's death with festivities spin saw this as mocking in spend the home country of Catherine yellow was the color of more while in England it was the color of joy unpregnant again was aware of the dangers if she failed to give birth to a son with Catherine dared Henry would be free to Marie without any taint of a legality at this time Henry began paying court to Jane Seymour he gave her a locket with a miniature portrait of himself inside in the presence of an she began opening and shutting it unresponded by ripping off the locket with such force her fingers bled later that month the king was on the horse in a jousting tournament and knocked unconscious for two hours a worrying incident that unbelievely dear miss courage five days later another possible cause of the miscarriage was an incident in which upon entering a room and saw Jean Seymour sitting on Henry's lap and flew into a Ridge whatever the cause on the tear of Katharine of Aragon's burial and miscarried a deformed male child as unrecovered from her miscarriage and we declared that he had been seduced into the marriage by means of deception and spells his new mistress Jane Seymour was quickly moved into rural quarters towards the end of April 1536 a Flemish musician in unserviceable was arrested he initially denied being the Queen's lover but later confessed perhaps tortured or promised freedom Sir Henry Norris was arrested on media Sir Francis Weston was arrested two days later on the same charge as was Sir William Burton and Sir Thomas Wyatt the final accused was Queen Anne's own brother George Boleyn arrested on charges of incest and treason he was accused of two incidents of incest on November 15 35 Whitehall and the following month at Eltham on the 2nd of May 1536 M was arrested and taken to the Tower of London by barge in the tower she collapsed demanding to know the location of her father and brother as well as the charges against her four of the accused men were tried in Westminster on the 12th of May 1536 all publicly maintained their innocence and only the tortured Smeaton supported the crane by pleading guilty three days later Anand George Boleyn were tried separately in the Tower of London before a jury of 27 pairs she was accused of adultery incest and high treason by the treason active Edward the third adultery on the part of a queen was a form of treason because of their implications for the succession to the throne for which their penalty was hanging drawing and quartering for a man and burning alive for a woman but the accusations and especially that of incestuous adultery were all designed to impune her moral character the other form of treason alleged against her was that of plotting the Kings death with her lover's so that she might lose her Murray Sir Henry Norris it was George's wife gin who give their damning evidence she said there was a familiarity between the Queen and her brother beyond what saw near a relationship could justify [Music] on the 14th of May Cranmer declared unsmirched to Henry null and void of other evidence against them were unconvincing the accused were found guilty and condemned to death George Boleyn and their other accused men were executed on the 17th of May 1536 Henry commuted an sentence from burning to beheading and rather than have a queen beheaded with the common axe he brought an expert swordsman from France shortly before dawn she called to him ass and swore on the eternal salvation of her soul upon the holy sacraments that she had never been unfaithful to the king she repeated this earth birth immediately before and after receiving the Holy Sacrament on the morning of Friday the 19th of May and was executed within the tower precincts she wore a red petticoat under a loose dark grey gown of damask trimmed in fur and mantle of Airmen accompanied by two female attendants and made her final walk from the Queen's House to the scaffold she climbed the scaffold and made a short speech to the crowd good Christian people I am come hither to die for according to the law and by the law I am judged to die and therefore I will speak nothing against it I am come hither to accuse nor man nor to speak anything of that wear off I am accused and condemned to die but I pray god save the king and send him long to reign over you for a gentler nor a more merciful Prince was there never and to me he was ever a good and gentle and Sovereign Lord and if any person will meddle of my cause I require them to judge the best and thus I take my leave of the world and of you all I heartily desire you all to prayer for me or lord have mercy on me to God I condemn my soul the urban mantle was removed and unlifted off her headdress talking her hair under her cloths after a brief farewell to her weeping ladies and a request for prayers she knelt down and one of her ladies tied a blindfold over her eyes she knelt upright in the French style of execution her final prayer consisted of her repeating continually Jesus receive my soul or Lord God have pity on my soul Jesus received my saw or Lord God have pity on my soul the execution consisted of a single stroke she was then buried in an unmarked grave in the chapel of st. Peter Advan killer her skeleton was identified during renovations of the chapel in 1876 in the reign of Queen Victoria and Anne's grave is now identified on the marble floor Henry's third wife was GNC more Jean and Henry were married for one year four months and 24 days Jane's motto was bound to obey and serve her badge is a crumbed phoenix rising from a castle between two red and white losers the Phoenix is a symbol of immortality rebirth and renewal the end of an era and the beginning of a new one in this era the Phoenix was also a symbol of true laws the castle is an emblem of grandeur and society the castle signifies power as well as home and safety the roses represent the red rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York June was the daughter of Sir John Seymour and Marjorie Wentworth she was most likely born at Wolf Hall in Wiltshire although Westborough Manor in Somerset has also been suggested her birth date is not recorded various accounts use anywhere from fifteen or four to fifteen or nine but it is generally estimated as occurring in 15 or years through her maternal grandfather she was a descendant of King Edward the third son Lionel of Antwerp first Duke of Clarence because of this she and King Henry were fifth cousins she shared a great-grandmother Elizabeth Chaney with his second and fifth wives and Berlin and Catherine Howard June was not as highly educated as Henry's first and second wives Catherine of Aragon and amberlynn she could read and write a little but was much better at needlework and household management which were considered much more necessary for women her needlework was reported to be beautiful and elaborate June became a maid of honor in 1532 to Queen Catherine and went on to serve Queen the first report of Henry the eighth's intresting Jian was in February 1536 about three months before unns execution she was described as of middling stature and very pale with watery gray eyes but not of much beauty and a woman of the utmost charm she was regarded as a meek gentle simple and chaste woman whose large family made her a suitable candidate to give birth to many children Henry the eighth was betrothed to Jane on the 20th of May 1536 just one day after ambulance execution they were married at the Palace of Whitehall in the Queen's closet by Bishop Gardiner on the 30th of May 1536 this is the Mirage deed for Han with the ear and gene Seymour she was publicly proclaimed Queen on the 4th of June 1536 her well-publicized sympathy for the late Queen Catherine and her daughter Mary showed her to be compassionate and made her a popular figure with the common people and most of the courtiers she was never crowned because of a plague in London where the coronation was to take place Henry may have been reluctant to have her crowned before she had fulfilled her duty as a queen consort by bearing him as son and male heir as Queen Jane was said to be strict and formal the lavish entertainment gaiety and extravagance of the Queen's household which had reached its peak during the time of Anne Boleyn was replaced by his strict enforcement of decorum for example she bombed their French fashions that Anne had introduced and she herself favored the English hood and damask rather than silk politically June appear to have been conservative her only reported involvement in national affairs in 1536 was when she asked for pardons for the participants in the pilgrimage of grace Henry is said to have rejected this reminding her of the Fiat of her predecessor when she meddled in his affairs June formed a close relationship with her stepdaughter Mary she put forth much effort to restore Mary to court and to the royal succession behind any children that she might have with Henry she brought up the issue of Mary's restoration both before and after she became Queen while she was all able to restore Mary to the line of succession she was able to reconcile her with Henry in January 1530 7gn became pregnant during her pregnancy she developed a craving for quail which Henry ordered for her from Calais and Flanders during the summer she took nor public engagements and led a relatively quiet life being attended by the Royal physicians and the best midwives in the kingdom she went into confinement in September 15:37 she gave birth to the coveted male heir the future King Edward at two o'clock in the morning on the 12th of October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace Edward was christened on the 15th of October without his mother in attendance as was the custom June's labor had been difficult lusting two days and three nights probably because the baby was not well positioned after the christening it became clear she was seriously ill she died on the 24th of October 1537 at Hampton Court Palace within a few weeks of her death there were conflicting testimonies concerning the cause from the current ear there are various speculations that have been offered her death may have been due to an infection from a retained placenta or it could have been pure apparel fever following a bacterial infection or even a pulmonary embolism Jim was buried on the 12th of November 15:37 in st. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle her stepdaughter Mary acted as chief mourner a procession of 29 mourners followed Mary Warren for every year of Queen James life she was the only one of Henry's wives to receive a Queen's funeral her epitaph thread realized Jean a Phoenix who died in giving another Phoenix birth let her be mourned for birds like these are rare indeed and this concludes the video thank you very much for watching if you enjoyed this please click the like button give it a thumbs up and please subscribe for future videos thank you

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Published: Sun Jul 05 2020