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CATHERINE OF ARAGON

Name: Catherine of Aragon (first wife of henry VIII)

DOB: 15 December 1485

DOD: 7 January 1536 (at Kimbolton Castle)

Nationality: Spanish

Status: widow of Arthur Tudor/married to Henry VIII (marriage was annulled in 1533)

Married: 11 June 1509

Religion: Catholic

Royal connections: King Ferdinand (father), Queen Isabella (mother),King Henry VIII (husband until 1533) , Queen Mary Tudor (daughter)

Role: Mother to Mary Tudor, wife to Henry Tudor VIII

Motto: “humble and loyal”

Early Life: Catherine was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. She was born in Spain, but was sent to live in England at a young age as she w betrothed to Aurthur Tudor (the older brother of Henry VII) who was meant to become king of England ( succeeding his father). At 14 she married Arthur, however he died 6 months after the marriage. However, so as to keep the alliance anglo-espanic alliance she later married Henry VII, Arthur’s younger brother (when she was 23 and he was 17).

Responsibilities to Henry: Produce a male heir Contribution to religious policies: Wanted to stay catholic

Fell out of favour: because she couldn’t produce a male heir ( if she did they died in the womb or shortly after birth)

In the end: Henry divorced her. She was banished from court, and was moved around England, castle to castle, separated from her daughter. She died aged 50.

Thomas Wolsey

Name: Thomas Wolsey

DOB: (unsure but sometime in 1475)

DOD: 29 November 1530

Nationality: English

Married: 11 June 1509

Religion: Catholic

Role: Cardinal, statesman, Henry VIII's lord chancellor and one of the last churchmen to play a dominant role in English political life.

Responsibilities to Henry: lord chancellor, englands foreign policy, arranging the field of the cloth of gold, henry wanted him to ask the pope for an annulment to his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, as he wanted to remarry
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