Henry VIII of England

Details

Instance of

human

Born

28 June 1491

Died

28 January 1547

Place of birth

Palace of Placentia

Place of death

Palace of Whitehall

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Henry

Family name

Tudor

Father

Henry VII of England

Mother

Elizabeth of York

Spouse

Catherine of Aragon, Ana Bolena, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr

Child

Mary I, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Elizabeth I of England, Edward VI of England, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, stillborn daughter Tudor (1510), stillborn son Tudor, Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1514), stillborn daughter Tudor (1518), Henry, Duke of Cornwall, miscarried son Tudor, Catherine Carey

Sibling

Elizabeth Tudor, Margaret Tudor, Mary Tudor, Katherine Tudor, Edward Tudor, Arthur, Prince of Wales, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset

Occupation

monarch, composer

Position held

monarch of England, King of Ireland, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, Earl Marshal, Lord Warden of the Marches, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Duke of York, Earl of Chester, Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales, Lord of Ireland

Citizenship

Kingdom of England

Religion

Anglicanism, Latin Church

Awards

Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Golden Rose, Knight of the Garter, Duke of York, Duke of Cornwall, Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, Knight of the Bath

depicted by

Portrait of Henry VIII, King Henry VIII (1491–1547), King Henry VIII (1491–1547), King Henry VIII (1491 - 1547), King Henry VIII (1491–1547)

described by source

Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Men of Kent and Kentishmen, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Contemporaries of Erasmus (vol. 2), Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), New International Encyclopedia

different from

I'm Henery the Eighth, I Am, Henry VIII

family

House of Tudor

has works in the collection

Archives nationales

languages spoken, written or signed

English, Italian, French, Latin

manner of death

natural causes

medical condition

obesity

name in native language

Henry VIII

nickname

Bluff Hal, Bluff Harry

noble title

Duke of York, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall, Earl of Chester, monarch of England, Lord of Ireland, King of Ireland

owner of

St James's Palace, Sandsfoot Castle, Nonsuch Palace

place of burial

St George's Chapel, Windsor

relative

Ferdinand II of Aragon, John, Prince of Asturias, Philip I of Castile, James V of Scotland, Mary, Queen of Scots

significant event

coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Field of the Cloth of Gold

significant person

Erasmus, Juan Luis Vives, Philipp Melanchthon

topic's main category

Category:Henry VIII

unmarried partner

Elizabeth Blount, Mary Boleyn, Elizabeth Stafford, Countess of Sussex, Joan Dingley, Margaret Shelton, Jane Popincourt, Anne Bassett, Elizabeth Carew, Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon

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