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Henry VIII. On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This ... King Henry
the VIII of England had a good side and a bad side. Though ...
Henry Viii. On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This ... King Henry
the VIII of England had a good side and a bad side. Though ...
Henry Viii. On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This ... King Henry
the VIII of England had a good side and a bad side. Though ...
Henry VIII. On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This ... King Henry
the VIII of England had a good side and a bad side. Though ...
Henry Viii. On June 28, 1941 Henry the VIII of England was born. This ... King Henry
the VIII of England had a good side and a bad side. Though ...
Submitted by mtate on May 7, 2006
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Henry VIII came to the throne in 1509 after his Brother Arthur's death. He married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, shortly after he came to the throne. A papal dispensation was necessary for Henry to marry Catherine, as she was his dead brother's wife, and this marriage was prohibited in Leviticus. At the time, and throughout her life, Catherine denied that her marriage to Arthur had even been consummated so no dispensation was needed. However, both the parties in Spain and England wanted to be sure of the legitimacy of the marriage, so permission from the pope was sought and received.
Catherine had many pregnancies and all of them ended with miscarriages, except for two. Prince Henry who died soon after it was born, and a daughter named Mary. There were probably two more pregnancies, the last recorded in 1518. Henry was a devoted husband and had only two recorded mistresses, Bessie Blount and Mary Boleyn. By 1526 though, he had begun to separate from Catherine because he had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn. Henry's main goal now was to get a male heir, which his wife was not able to provide. Henry began to look at the texts of Leviticus which says that if a man takes his brother's wife, they shall be childless. This was the beginning of the Kings Great Matter. It was headed by Cardinal Wolsey, and Archbishop Warham in York Palace. Wolsey first asked the King to answer the charge, and the King graciously agreed. As Wolsey cited the charges, Henry's counsel argued the opposite of what the king wanted... that his marriage to Catherine was a valid one. The counsel was headed by Dr. Richard Wolman, who built up a case against the late Pope Julious II which he presented on May 31st of the same year. He then asked Wolsey to weigh the arguments and arrive at a judgment. However, when Wolsey was supposed to give out his judgment, he said it was too difficult and submitted it to a panel of theologians and cannon...
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