A King and his six´s Wives

                                                                Henry VIII and his 6 Wives

Henry was born in London on June 28, 1491, and after the death of his father in 1509, acceded to the throne. He married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, who got engaged through a papal dispensation obtained in 1503. It was the first of Henry's six marriages, which were affected by the political and religious conditions of the time and the increasingly despotic behavior of the monarch. At the beginning of his reign, the attractiveness and friendliness of Enrique, his love of sports and hunting, and military value endear him to his subjects. In his role as monarch Renaissance, received at his court many scholars and artists such as the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger, who painted several portraits of him and members of his court.



In 1527 Henry announced his desire to divorce his wife, claiming the papal dispensation that made possible his marriage was null. The main reason for the divorce was that Catherine had not given him a male heir. Her only surviving child was Mary, later Mary I of England. In addition, Henry was in love with Anne Boleyn, a maid of honor of the queen.
In 1536, after Anne Boleyn accused of incest and adultery, Henry ordered his execution. A few days after Anna's death he married Jane Seymour, who died in 1537 while giving birth to Henry's only legitimate son, Edward, later Edward VI. In 1540 he arranged his marriage to Anne of Cleves in order to establish a link between England and the Protestant princes of Germany. A few months later, due to unattractive since Ana and political alliance with Germany was no longer favored, Henry divorced her, and that same year he married Catherine Howard. The following year Henry married his sixth (and last) wife, Catherine Parr, who was the only one that survived.


He died on January 28, 1547 in London.