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Henry VI of England (1421–1471; ruled 1422–1461 and 1470–1471). [8]: 586 A breakdown in 1453 caused him to neglect state affairs for more than a year. A Lord Protector was appointed on that and two subsequent occasions to govern the kingdom, and after his Queen, Margaret of Anjou conducted state affairs for him.
His love letters to his mistress, Anne Boleyn, reveal that physicians believed Anne had contracted the illness. Henry sent his second-most trusted physician to her aid, his first being unavailable, and she survived. [28] Cardinal Wolsey contracted the illness and survived. [29] The disease was brought to Hamburg by a ship from England in July ...
Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death. Henry is known for his six marriages and his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon ) annulled .
Several years of ill health- some type of visible skin ailment. Leprosy is also rumoured to have been possible. Henry V: 16 September 1386 1413–1422 31 August 1422 Natural causes, probably dysentery: Edward IV: House of York (England) 28 April 1442 1461–1470 1471–1483 9 April 1483 Unclear, possibly apoplexy brought on by excess. Henry VII
I’m only about 58 years late to the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, which recounts St. Thomas More’s refusal to submit to England’s King Henry VIII as he broke away from the Catholic Church ...
In 1528, Barton held a private meeting with Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, the second most powerful man in England after Henry VIII, and she soon thereafter met twice with Henry himself. Henry accepted Barton because her prophecies then still supported the existing order. She also consulted with Richard Reynolds, a Bridgettine monk of Syon Abbey.
In the movie Firebrand, Jude Law portrays King Henry VIII as he nears death and reaches an apex of paranoia at the end of a megalomaniacal life. The last of his six wives, Katherine Parr (Alicia ...
'Hang the Moon' expands Jeannette Walls writing beyond 'The Glass Castle' and other personal stories, following a Tudor-like dynasty in 1920s Virginia.