Divorced Beheaded Died

Divorced Beheaded Survived

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A Quagmire

of Queens

The Women of the Henry VIII

Lauri Wei Lu100501008

Department of English, Sophomore Year

Instructor:Professor Michael Cheng

Arthur Tudor Never got to be king

Naming

Aged 2: betrothed to Catherine of Aragon

Aged 3: Prince of Wales

Aged 15: died of consumption

King Henry VII

King Henry VIIIKing of England and of Ireland

Preceded by Henry VII, succeeded by Edward VI

Known for his six marriages and separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church

Supreme Head of the Church of England

The king’s Great Matter, and its 3 solutions

Catherine of Aragon

Youngest Spanish Princess

Great-great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt

Princess of Wales

Testified never having consummated her first marriage

Father-in-law refused to return her dowry

Queen Consort of Henry VIII

Catherine of Aragon

Regent of England, rode north to battle James IV in full armor, heavily pregnant

Pregnant for 6 times, only Mary I, Queen of England, survived

Highly pious

Relief program for the poor

Patron of the Renaissance Humanism, friend of Erasmus

Champion of female education

Catherine of Aragon

Her lady in waiting—Anne Boleyn

Died at Kimbolton castle, where she was exiled

“If not for her sex, she could have

defied all the heroes of history”

--Thomas Cromwell

?Bessie Blount

Royal Mistress

Only illegitimate son to be recognized by the king—Henry Fitzroy, later Duke of Richmond and Earl of Nottingham.

Married Gilbert Tailboys, (doubtful father of) Elizabeth Tailboys

Was financially secure all her life

Mary BoleynThe elder sister

The “English Mare”, known in the French court for her promiscuity

Married to William Carey

Children believed to be fathered by Henry VIII

Second marriage to William Stafford.

“I had rather beg my bread with him than to

be the greatest queen in Christendom. And I

believe verily ... he would not forsake me to be a

king.”

Queen Anne Boleyn

Queen from 1522~1536

Marquess of Pembroke

Key figure in the political and religious upheaval that started the English Reformation

Educated in the court of France and Netherlands

Maid of Honour to Queen of France

Queen Anne Boleyn

Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland. Sir Thomas Wyatt (Whose List to Hunt)

Resisted seduction for 7 years until marriage

Famous for her temper 3 miscarriages

Beheaded on charges of adultery, treason, incest, and witchcraft. Six-fingered.

Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind…Fainting I follow. I leave off therefore, Since in a net I seek to hold the wind. Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt, As well as I, may spend his time in vain; And graven in diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about, "Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,And wild to hold, though I seem tame."

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Jane SeymourModest, compassionate, sympathetic to Mary

Not as well educated, daughter of a knight

Lady in waiting to Anne Boleyn

Death (due to infection or C-section)

Son: Edward I

Anne of ClevesSix-month queen

German princess

Marriage annulled

The “King’s Sister”: gratitude for consenting to the annulment

Catherine Howard

“Rose without a thorn”: known for her great beauty

Cousin of Anne Boleyn

Lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves

The Howard family’s influence once again grew

Catherine HowardBy her time, the King weighed

140 kilograms

Personal Secretary/adolescent sweetheart Francis Dereham

Never admited to infidelity

Imprisoned until Parliament issued a bill making it illegal for a wife not to inform her husband of her sexual history within twenty days of their marriage

"I DIE A QUEEN, BUT I WOULD RATHER DIE THE WIFE OF THOMAS CULPEPPER."

Catherine ParrMost married queen (4)

Stay-at-home figure

Close-knit royal household: ensuring Mary and Elizabeth’s succession to the throne

Greatly influenced her stepdaughter, Elizabeth

Married her old love Thomas Seymour six month after death of Henry VIII. Her new husband went on to woo Lady Elizabeth.

“My hands are ordained to touch crowns and scepters, not spindles and needles"

Don’t trust your ladies in waiting

Once a cheater, always a cheater

A more thorough insight into the history of England