Timeline: King Henry VIII's wives

Period: Jun 18, 1491 to Jan 28, 1547

Henry VIII

Jun 28, 1491

Henry VII (Eigth) birth

Henry VIII was born Henry Tudor in Greenwhich Palace

Oct 18, 1509

Henry marries Catherine of Aragon

Katherine of Aragon arrived in England in 1501, aged fifteen, to be married to the heir to the English throne, Prince Arthu(Henry's brother). A few months later, Arthur was dead, struck down by a fever. Henry VIII, the king of England married Catherine in 1509. She was extremely popular with the people of England and governed the nation as Regent

Oct 18, 1527

Henry leaves Catherine http://youtu.be/xX08f3GV3v8

http://youtu.be/xX08f3GV3v8
Catherine had not produced a surviving son, only a daughter, Mary I of England. Henry wanted a son meant that he wanted to divorce his wife Catherine of Aragon.Because divorce was not allowed in the Catholic faith, he used the pretext that as Catherine had been married to his older [and dead] brother Arthur that it was an invalid marriage. Pope would not agree to a divorce.

Jan 25, 1533

King Henry VIII marries Anne Bolyne

In 1532, Anne Boleyn became pregnant with the king's child. She was married to Henry on January 25, 1533 so that the baby could be a legitimate heir. Henry's marriage to Catherine of Aragon was finally annulled in the following May by Archbishop Cranmer, thus ending the first of Henry's 6 marriages. The divorce went against the Roman Catholic belief system, so Henry created his own church; The Church of England, the beginnings of Protestantism with the King as the head instead of the Pope.

Oct 18, 1533

Anne's life with Henry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDOL720sgE (contains brief nudity) Anne Boleyn was the second of Henry's six wives. She was Queen of England from 1533 until 1536. She was one of the first non-royal women to become a Queen of England, which caused quite a stir in those times. She was also the mother of Elizabeth I, one of the greatest monarchs in the history of England and of the world itself

Jan 7, 1536

Catherine of Aragons death

www.youtube.com/embed/x4SSUIGeCCY Deawas near, Catherine made out her will, wrote her nephew, the Emperor Charles V, asking him to protect her daughter, and penned one finial letter to Henry, "my most dear lord and husband":
The hour of my death now drawing on, the tender love I owe you forceth me, my case being such, to commend myself to you... For my part, I pardon you everything, and I wish to devoutly pray God that He will pardon you also. For the rest, I commend unto you our daughter Mary,

Jan 29, 1536

Catherine of Aragon's funeral,King Henry Vii misses

http://youtu.be/CteZPHNEYaM
On the 29th January 1536, Catherine of Aragon was buried in Peterborough Abbey, now known as Peterborough Cathedral.
Henry did not attend Catherine's funeral, nor did he allow Princess Mary(her daughter) to do so. Catherine was the only one of Henry's wives who lived to see her fiftieth birthday.

May 18, 1536

Anne executed on King's command

On May 2, the Queen herself was arrested at Greenwich and was informed of the charges against her: adultery, incest and plotting to murder the King. They came for Anne on the morning of May 19 to take her to the Tower Green to be executed http://youtu.be/ZZ4ArpxymWQ.

May 20, 1536

Henry marries Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour (c1509-1537) was the third of Henry VIII's six wives and the only wife to provide the King with the much longed for son and male heir. Having married Henry in May 1536, she gave birth to Prince Edward (later Edward VI) at Hampton Court Palace in 1537 but died soon afterwards..Henry had his son but grieved: 'Providence has mingled my joy with the bitterness of the death of her who brought me this happiness -

Jan 18, 1540

Henry marry's to new wife Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves (1515-1557) was the fourth of Henry VIII's six wives and at 24 was half Henry's age when they married in January 1540.Henry first saw Anne of Cleves in a painting by Hans Holbein but in the flesh, Henry found Anne unattractive and began pursuing one of her maids of honour, Catherine Howard.

Jul 18, 1540

King Henry annuls Marriage to Anne of Cleves

http://youtu.be/qqu1OS_Bhe4 Henry first saw Anne of Cleves in a painting by Hans Holbein but in the flesh, Henry found Anne unattractive and began pursuing one of her maids of honour, Catherine Howard. Anne remained in England and on good terms with Henry VIII. He commanded that she be treated as 'the king's sister

Jul 28, 1540

King Henry marries Kathryn Howard

Henry VIII's fifth wife was an alluring teenager named Catherine Howard.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jWzK4xxMOE

Feb 13, 1542

Henry's 2nd wife beheaded

Married three weeks after his second divorce, rumours of Catherine's past and present love affairs reached a furious Henry. She was arrested at Hampton Court Palace and later taken to the Tower of London where she was beheaded in February 1542, aged about 21. http://youtu.be/zqskQMkSK6U

Jul 18, 1543

King Henry King Henry VIII married to Katerine Parr, Henry's last wife

Intelligent and devout, Kateryn loved Thomas Seymour but Henry's proposal could not be refused. She and Henry VIII married at Hampton Court Palace in July 1543. He was 52, she was 31. http://youtu.be/K7fGSmNounA?list=PLz548cGznY9VR85yi5SIVtIwdd_1IV2fE Notice the different sizes of Henry VIIIth in the different videos