“The King’s Great Matter”
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Was Henry VIII the sole guilty party in his marriage to Katherine of Aragon….?
“The King’s Great Matter”, 17th Earl of Warwick, Anne Boleyn, Bessie Bount, Catholic Monarchs, Catholicism, Church of Englad, Edward IV, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Woodville, Extreme religious devotions, Ferdinand and Isabella, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VII, Henry VIII, infertility, Jane Seymour, John of Gloucester, Katherine of Aragon, Lord Privy Seal, Ludlow, Mary Boleyn, Perkin Warbeck, Philip II of Spain, Pope Clement VII, Pope Julius II, Post-partum infections, Prince Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, Prohibited degree, Protestantism, Richard Fox Bishop of Winchester, Spanish Armada, Spanish Inquisition, Ten Commandments, The ReformationJust look at the above portrait of Katherine/Catherine/Catalina of Aragon (https://tinyurl.com/3auwsmsf). This is her in 1502-1509, between losing her first husband, Prince Arthur (Tudor), (https://tinyurl.com/53n9mbd6) and marrying his younger brother, who had by then been King Henry VIII for about a month, (https://www.royal.uk/henry-viii). She and Prince Arthur had wed in November 1501, when he was…
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The tapestries of Thomas Wolsey
“The King’s Great Matter”, allegory, Archbishop of York, Archduke Philip, Arthur “Tudor”, Baynard’s Castle, cardinals, Catherine of Aragon, Christ was born as the Redeemer of Man, Emma Luisa Cahill Marron, Ferdinand of Aragon, Field of the Cloth of Gold, Hazel Pierce, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Infanta Maria, Ipswich, Isabel of Castile, Juan Rodriguez de Fonseca, Leicester Abbey, Lord Chancellor, Manuel Duke of Beja, Margaret of Salisbury, Narbona Cathedral, Peace and Mercy, Portugal, Richard Gresham, Richmond Palace, Royal College of Arms, Sheen, Sir Edward Howard, Spain, St. George, tapestries, The Creation, The Redemption of Man, The Virtues defy Vices, Thomas Wolsey, tournaments, Trinity College, University of Cantabria, Westminster HallWe have recently come across this rather interesting article, extracted from Reyes y Prelados, by Emma Luisa Cahill Marron (excuse the missing accent) about Cardinal Wolsey and some of his artefacts. The original is in Spanish and here is a translation, by ladychaol.
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It’s official, folks. Late in his reign Henry VII was “a creepy old man”! It’s true, because Factinate.com says so! Henry VIII, was “a nasty middle-aged and old man”. In my opinion anyway, and Factinate agrees, more or less. Oh, and Catherine of Aragon was quite a woman! She had some pretty bloodthirsty ideas,…
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Digging up Britain’s Past: By George, I think she’s got it
“The King’s Great Matter”, Alex Langlands, annulment, Catherine of Aragon, Channel Five, devalued coinage, Dissolution of the Monasteries, Edward VI, Elsyng Palace, George Bernard Shaw, health, Helen Skelton, Henry VIII, Llantrisant, London, Old Coppernose, Pygmalion, Rievaulx Abbey, Royal Mint, silver platingThis second episode of this Channel Five series, presented by Alex Langlands and Helen Skelton, took us to Elsyng Palace, a North London house built by Henry VIII but with question marks about its precise venue until recently. Very unusually, the presenters clearly stated that the “King’s Great Matter” concerned not a divorce from Catherine…
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