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January 24 – King Henry VIII of England is seriously injured when he falls from his horse at a jousting tournament in Greenwich, after which the fully armored horse falls on him. The King is unconscious for two hours, sustaining an injury to an ulcerated leg and a concussion. [5] [6] [7]
Henry VIII: House of Tudor (England) 28 June 1491 1509–1547 28 January 1547 Suffered from gout and obesity. Obesity dates from a jousting accident in 1536 in which he suffered a leg wound. This prevented him from exercising and gradually became ulcerated. Also possibly suffered from syphilis and/or diabetes: Edward VI: 12 October 1537 1547–1553
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 .
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 ...
Henry discloses his fears to Brandon of the threat from the Poles because of their Plantagenet blood. Henry's leg ulcer becomes life-threatening and Brandon decides that a risky procedure should be carried out on the King. Henry discovers Mary de Longueville has already married and that there is resistance to the Christina of Milan match.
He was the son of King Henry VIII by his third wife, Jane Seymour, and was the only son of Henry VIII to outlive him. Throughout the realm, the people greeted the birth of a male heir, "whom we hungered for so long", [ 5 ] with joy and relief.
Howard Goorney played Will Sommers in two episodes of the 1970 BBC mini-series The Six Wives of Henry VIII. In Margaret George's 1986 fictional The Autobiography of Henry VIII, Will Somers protects the manuscript from Queen Mary, who would destroy it. "Somers" adds observations in his own hand that throw light on the old King's hypocrisies and ...
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