Divorced Beheaded Died
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CLIP 1
A
Quagmire
of
Queens
Lauri Wei Lu
100501008
Department of English, Sophomore Year
The Women of
the Henry VIII
Instructor:
Professor Michael Cheng
Arthur
Tudor
Never got to be king
Naming
Aged 2: betrothed to
Catherine of Aragon
Aged 3: Prince of Wales
Aged 15: died of
consumption
King Henry VII
King Henry
VIII
King of
England and of Ireland
Preceded by Henry VII, succeeded by
Edward VI
Known for his six marriages and
separation of the Church of England
from the Roman Catholic Church
Supreme Head of the Church of
England
The king’s Great Matter, and its 3
solutions
Catherine of
Aragon
Youngest Spanish Princess
Great-great-granddaughter of
John of Gaunt
Princess of Wales
Testified never having consummated
her first marriage
Father-in-law refused to return her
dowry
Queen Consort of Henry VIII
Catherine of
Aragon
Regent of England, rode north to battle
James IV in full armor, heavily pregnant
Pregnant for 6 times, only Mary I,
Queen of England, survived
Highly pious
Relief program for the poor
Patron of the Renaissance Humanism,
friend of Erasmus
Champion of female education
Catherine of
Aragon
Her lady in waiting—Anne
Boleyn
Died at Kimbolton
“Ifcastle,
not for her sex,
where she was exiled
she could have
defied all the
heroes of history”
--Thomas
Cromwell
Bessie Blount
Royal Mistress
Only illegitimate son to be
recognized by the king—
Henry Fitzroy, later Duke of
Richmond and Earl of
Nottingham.
Married Gilbert Tailboys,
(doubtful father of) Elizabeth
Tailboys
Was financially secure all
her life
Mary Boleyn
The elder sister
The “English Mare”, known in the
French court for her promiscuity
Married to William Carey
Children believed to be fathered by
Henry VIII
Second marriage to William
Stafford.
Queen Anne
Boleyn
Queen from 1522~1536
Marquess of Pembroke
Key figure in the political and
religious upheaval that started
the English Reformation
Educated in the court of
France and Netherlands
Maid of Honour to Queen of
France
Queen Anne
Boleyn
Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an
Henry Percy, Earl of
hind…
Northumberland.
Sir Thomas
Fainting I follow. I leave
off therefore,
(Whose
Since in a net I seek Wyatt
to hold the
wind. List to Hunt)
Who list her hunt, I put him out of doubt,
As well as I, may spendResisted
his time inseduction
vain;
for 7 years
And graven in diamonds in letters plain
until marriage
There is written, her fair neck round about,
"Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am,
Famous
her temper 3
And wild to hold, though
I seem for
tame."
miscarriages
Sir Thomas Wyatt
Beheaded on charges of
adultery, treason, incest, and
witchcraft. Six-fingered.
Jane
Modest,
Seymour
compassionate,
sympathetic to Mary
Not as well
educated, daughter
of a knight
Lady in waiting to
Anne Boleyn
Death (due to
infection or C-section)
Son: Edward I
Anne of
Cleves
Six-month queen
German princess
Marriage annulled
The “King’s Sister”:
gratitude for consenting to
the annulment
Catherine
Howard
“Rose without a thorn”: known
for her great beauty
Cousin of Anne Boleyn
Lady-in-waiting to Anne of Cleves
The Howard family’s influence
once again grew
Catherine
By her time, the King weighed
Howard
kilograms
"I140
DIE A
QUEEN,
BUT I WOULD
RATHER
DIE THE
Personal
Secretary/adolescent
WIFE OF THOMAS
sweetheart Francis Dereham
CULPEPPER."
Never admited to infidelity
Imprisoned until Parliament
issued a bill making it illegal for a
wife not to inform her husband of
her sexual history within twenty
days of their marriage
Catherine Most married queen (4)
Parr
Stay-at-home figure
“My hands are
ordained to
Close-knit
touch
crowns royal household:
ensuring
Mary and Elizabeth’s
and
scepters,
succession
to the throne
not
spindles and
needles"
Greatly influenced her
stepdaughter, Elizabeth
Married her old love Thomas
Seymour six month after death of
Henry VIII. Her new husband went
on to woo Lady Elizabeth.
Don’t trust your
ladies in waiting
Once a cheater,
always a cheater
A more thorough
insight into the
history of England