The classic American drama "Tudor Dynasty" makes people think of Henry VIII when they mention his rhyme with his 6 wives. In fact, Henry VIII, before becoming the husband of these women, was first and foremost an ambitious politician, and even if it seemed that the purpose of Expanding the Scope of Punishment for the Treason Act was essentially to strengthen the centralization of the monarchy.
In Henry VIII and the Tudor Dynasty, the Tudor historian John Matuschak will restore a more realistic Henry VIII as completely as possible, starting from the time of Henry Tudor's prince. The title page quotes the Protestant theologian Philip Meranchtung, "Let's stop singing the praises of Nero of England," perhaps providing a more complete glimpse of Henry Tudor.
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Henry, still in his time as a prince, was already under the influence of literature, eager to be able to restore the French provinces like the legendary knights of history, and prove his worth in front of the french, the old rivals of the medieval British kings.
In 1509, Henry succeeded to the throne; two years later, he united with the Roman Empire to declare war on France; in 1513, he personally led 25,000 soldiers to invade France with Spain, and in the autumn of the same year, Henry's British army captured the French general and won a great victory.
The young English king won the war as a knight, but the victory cost enough gold to fill a well in artillery and camping equipment alone, and the cost of that year in 1513 was as high as 700,000 pounds, and Henry VIII had to start using the reserve funds of his father Henry VII a few years later.
The war at the beginning of his reign was purely a political game in which scheming politicians shot Henry VIII at gunpoint. Britain won the vanity of the victor, but overdrawn Britain's future. Henry VIII's dear ally, the Holy Roman Empire, used the British army to tie down the French defenses and received a "generous donation" of 20,000 pounds from Henry VIII.
The ambition of adolescence never diminished as experience grew.
In the summer of 1944, France invaded Britain. The 53-year-old Henry VIII dragged his bloated body to France again. In this war, Henry won the French ceding Bougueni to Britain for 8 years, it seems that britain did not lose face, but the sinking of the British navy "Mary Rose" and the cost of 2.14 million pounds were enough to bankrupt Henry's rule.
The war was fought against Henry VIII, like a game of competition between boys to prove themselves. When he was young, in order to impress the French, he did not hesitate to spend his father's reserve funds; in his old age, in order to prove that his sword was not old, he also burned the income of Britain for many years to come. Unfortunately, this victory did not win him respect, and his practice of treating war as a child's play could only bring him the sighs and laughter of history.
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Soon after Henry VIII ascended the throne, he married his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon, with whom he had a grand wedding, followed by a grand banquet. This wedding between the new king and queen, no matter how you look at it, is full of blessings from the subjects and the romantic love of the empress. When Henry and Catherine were first married, perhaps in addition to the purpose of the political marriage, it was the responsibility and love of the young chivalry, but the last 5 wives of Anne Boleyn were more of Henry's desires and vanities as an emperor.
Catherine of Aragon was childless for many years, and the only surviving child was Mary Tudor, henry was sure that because he won the marriage of his brother's widow and was not recognized by the gods, so he reduced the punishment so that he could not get a male heir, in order to get a prince, Henry set his sights on Anne Boleyn.
In order to be able to change a queen, Henry did not hesitate to break the Holy See, ignoring the threat of the Roman Empire behind Catherine of Aragon, forcibly revising the religious doctrine and secretly marrying Anne Boleyn. If I saw this, I almost thought it was a king-style love, but Anne Boleyn, who had once again added a daughter to Henry VIII, quickly fell out of favor.
Anne Boleyn Stills from Tudor
Henry, who wanted a male heir, turned his mind to Jane Seymour, who lived up to expectations and gave birth to Edward VI, but unfortunately, at a time when hygiene was backward, Jane Seymour died of puerperal fever within a month of giving birth to the little prince.
Henry VIII's next three wives were more like the result of Henry's desire for youth in his later years. In the 16th century, the medical conditions, the king had to consider the heir after the age of 40, henry VIII was more than half a hundred years old was already a high lifespan. The king's marriage was supposed to be a marriage for political purposes, but Henry, who was more than half a hundred years old, was clearly more concerned about whether the future queen was beautiful enough.
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Therefore, after marrying Anne of Cleves, he would declare the marriage annulled because he did not like the appearance of the queen, and also gave Anne the title of "Dear Sister of the King", a sense of "you are too ugly, I don't like you, we are still brothers and sisters".
Ironically, Henry VIII's previous tossed marriages were meant to pass on the Tudor dynasty to male heirs. Unfortunately, Edward VI died of illness at the age of 16, and the throne went around and returned to Marie Tudor, the daughter of Catherine of Aragon, whom he had originally intended to abolish.
Mary Tudor Stills from Tudor
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Love of war, great success, singing night and night, and sending several wives to the guillotine, although he single-handedly developed the British navy, Henry VIII still became a tyrant like "Nero" in the mouth of Philip Melanch.
In order to silence the many who opposed his marriage to Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII carried out the Reformation and killed all his opponents; Scotland, after allying with France, ordered "to loot Les, to burn and destroy everything, to burn all men, women, children to death... Harassing Scottish civilians prevented them from sowing seeds, so that they would be destitute by next year." This series of measures still seems cruel and tyrannical today.
Not to excuse the tyrant's cruelty, in Henry VIII and the Tudor Dynasty, the description of Henry's life before he ascended the throne may find a reason for henry VIII's nero-like actions.
Until the age of 12, until the death of his brother Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, Henry was the object of king Henry VII's guard. Fearing that the young Henry might pose a threat to Arthur's rule in the future, Henry VII sought ways to marginalize the prince, who was keen to be praised.
Among the royal siblings, Henry the Great's two-year-old sister married the King of Scotland at the age of 12, while the other sister also had a marriage contract with the heir of the Habsburg Empire, not to mention that arthur, the brother of the crown prince at the time, had also fulfilled the marriage contract with Catherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess. Royal marriages were a combination of power, and Henry, as the second son, needed to secure his position through political marriages, but in order to prevent Henry from threatening Arthur's future rule, Henry's marriage was no longer followed.
However, just a few months after Arthur and Catherine's marriage, the young Arthur died of an acute illness. Henry, the second son, finally became the hope of Henry VII, and the old king took the future new king with him, "living a life of isolation almost under close surveillance".
But in the last years of Henry VII, the old widow had to become paranoid and grumpy as a tired old king who had not been trained as a second son of the crown prince. This led Henry, who had studied rule with the old king, to believe that the keys to rule were "thunder from time to time" and "indulgence in personal impulses."
After experiencing his father's near-ostracized distrust and being made crown prince in the later period, his father was almost pervertedly bound, and Henry VIII, who had been crowned the throne, acted extravagantly according to his own preferences and waged war to swear strength to his opponents, and eventually became the "Nero of England" in the post-population.
The Tudor Dynasty was the golden age in the history of Absolute Monarchy in England, and Henry VIII clearly left posterity with more than just love gossip with his six wives. Henry VIII and the Tudor Dynasty also shows us the passage through which a marginalized prince became a tyrant, and henry VIII's imperial ambitions as ruler.
The wife of the iron husband Flowing Water, Henry VIII married 6 queens, not only the king's affair, but also related to the king's ambitions. If you like this article, please help like, comment, retweet and favorite, your support is the motivation for me to insist on creating