Wife #1: Catherine of Aragon
Marriage Status: Divorced

Parents: Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
Born: 16 December 1485
Marriage: King Henry VIII: 11 June 1509
Marriage Dissolved: 1533
Death: 7 January 1536

Surviving Children: Mary I of England

“In this world I will confess myself to be the king’s true wife, and in the next they will know how unreasonably I am afflicted.” – Catherine of Aragon, 1532 (courtesy englishhistory.net)

 

 

Wife: #2: Anne Boleyn
Marriage Status: Beheaded

Parents: Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Lady Elizabeth Howard
Born: Between 1500 and 1509
Marriage: Henry VIII: 25 January 1533
Death: 19 May 1536 by beheading

Surviving Children: Elizabeth I of England

“I have never had better opinions of woman than I had of her.” - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (courtesy The Anne Boleyn Files)

 

 

 

Wife #3: Jane Seymour
Marriage Status: Died

Parents: John Seymour and Margery Wentworth
Born: 1508 or 1509
Marriage: King Henry VIII: 30 May 1536
Death: 24 October 1537

Surviving Children: Edward VI of England

“Jane Seymour was the fairest, the discreetest, and the most meritorious of all Henry VIII.’s wives.” – Courtesy
Memoirs of the Queens of Henry VIII., and His Mother, Elizabeth of York by Agnes Strickland

 

 

 

 

Wife #4: Anne of Cleves
Marriage Status: Divorced

Parents: John lll, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Jülich-Berg
Born: 22 September 1515
Marriage: King Henry Vlll:  6 January 1540
Death: 16 July 1557

Surviving Children: Anne had no children

 

 

 

 

 

Wife #5: Catherine Howard
Marriage Status: Beheaded

Parents: Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpepper
Born: circa 1521
Marriage: King Henry VIII: 28 July 1540
Marriage Dissolved: 13 February 1542
Death: 13 February 1542 by beheading

Surviving Children: Catherine had no children

 

 

 

 

Wife #6: Catherine Parr
Marriage Status: Widowed - 28 January 1547

Parents: Sir Thomas Parr and Maud Green
Born: 1512
Marriage: King Henry VIII: 12 July 1543
Death: 5 September 1548

Surviving Children: No children with Henry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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