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Henry VIII

King of England, born 28 June, 1491; died 28 January, 1547.

He was the second son and third child of his father, Henry VII. His elder

brother Arthur died in April, 1502, and consequently Henry became heir

to the throne when he was not yet quite eleven years old. It has been

asserted that Henry’s interest in theological questions was due to the bias

of his early education, since he had at first been destined by his father for

the Church. But a child of eleven can hardly have formed lifelong

intellectual tastes, and it is certain that secular titles, such as those of Earl

Marshal and Viceroy of Ireland, were heaped upon him when he was

five. On the other hand there can be no question as to the boy’s great

precocity and as to the liberal scope of the studies which he was made to

pursue from his earliest years.

After Arthur’s death a project was at once formed of marrying him to his

brother’s widow, Catherine of Aragon, who, being born in December,

1485, was more than five years his senior. The negotiations for a papal

dispensation took some little time, and the Spanish Queen Isabella, the

mother of Catherine, then nearing her end, grew very impatient. Hence a

hastily drafted Brief containing the required dispensation was privately

sent to Spain in 1504, to be followed some months later by a Bull to the

same effect which was of a more public character. The existence of these

two instruments afterwards caused complications. Owing, however, to

some political scheming of Henry VII who was trying to outwit his

rival Ferdinand Prince Henry, on attaining the age of fourteen, was

made to record a formal protest against the proposed marriage with

Catherine, as a matter arranged without his consent. Still, when his father

died in 1509, Henry carried out the marriage nine weeks after his

accession, he being then eighteen, and showing from the first a thorough

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