is there anything besides having six wives? and how did he die?
2006-09-29 16:51:29 · 8 answers · asked by Shhh..Silence 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
he started anglicanism. First he married one lady (catherine) and he needed a male son to take the throne for him and with catherine, he only had a girl. Then he goes to pope and asks for an annulment so that he can marry some other chick(anne boleyn) but the pope refuses. This is weird because they use to be pretty close. Henry was even called "Defender of the faith" by pope. The reason why the pope refused? Charles V of the HRE burned rome and charles was pissed that his aunt catherine was being dumped by henry 8th and prevented pope from annuling marriage. Henry started his own church called anglicanism where everythign is virtually the same, except that the king is the head of the church. The ironic thing is that in the end he ends up beheading Anne and its crazy. In the end his 1st daughter Mary is the one who lives. (Theres someother ones but they die soon, Mary is the main heir daughteR)
2006-09-29 16:54:54 · answer #1 · answered by JIMMY j 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Henry VIII (28 June 1491–28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry VIII is famous for having been married six times, "divorcing" two by execution, and ultimately breaking with Rome. He wielded perhaps the most untrammelled power of any English monarch, and brought about the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and the union of England and Wales.
2006-09-29 17:00:13 · answer #2 · answered by DanE 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Henry VIII was quite set on having a male heir, so his first wife had a female child and he wanted to divorce her, but England, still being part of the Roman Catholic Church at the time, the pope wouldn't let him, so King Henry took the pope's authority away from the Church of England, and the pope excommunicated him, this was the beggining of Anglicanism. So now Anglicans eat cake and divorce.
I also think he brought about the union of England and Wales, not certain of that though.
2006-09-30 06:10:35 · answer #3 · answered by thalog482 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The whole Anglican Church thing and besides, Henry the 7th and the 9th were just a couple of regular guys...nothing to report there.
2006-09-29 17:02:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
He wrote that song: Henry the 8th I am, I am, henery the 8th I am.
rather dull in this day and age it was quite a hit in that time.
2006-09-29 17:00:31 · answer #5 · answered by Grev 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is the monarch that broke with the Catholic Church and declared himself the head of the church of England. Pretty bold move.
Theories of his death vary from complications of morbid obesity, to syphilis to infected wound with osteomyelitis. My bet is on the obesity, as his waist size was 54 inches! And people who are that obese live not much longer than the 56 years that he did.
2006-09-29 16:56:39 · answer #6 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't he run the Catholics out of England?
2006-09-29 16:59:48 · answer #7 · answered by moonsister_98 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because he was a cold blooded killer
2006-09-29 17:01:12 · answer #8 · answered by mrgrumps01 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋