Did Henry the 8th ??

Question

really behead his wives.. how many did have killed and why.. did he ever fall in love with one and let her live?

Answer 1

hate this guy. he accused them of infidelity so he couldkill them and move onto the next,

Answer 2

Yes he did.

Anne Boleyn was beheaded for not producing a son. She was charged and convicted of incest with her brother and other sexual acts with other men. More than likely all trumped up charges so that the king could re-marry.

Catherine Howard was very young when she married Henry and basically fooled around on him. Treason. Therefore, she was beheaded.

Did he ever fall in love with one and let her live? Who's to say really? He probably loved Katherine, his first wife, but after years of marriage resulting in only a daughter and a few stillborn sons, Henry was concerned about the succession of the throne. A female monarch had not sit on the throne for centuries and that did not end well. Therefore, Henry needed a son. Unlike his other wives, Katherine was not just anybody, she was the daughter of the King of Spain, and her nephew was the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles. She was politically connected and could not be harmed.

Answer 3

He had Anne Boleyn beheaded for treason and adultery - neither of which are provable and probably untrue.

Her cousin Katherine Howard was beheaded for the same, only in her case, there probably really was a case of adultery.

He loved Anne Boleyn terribly for a while, but once she became his wife and did not manage to produce a son, he got tired of her. After her death, he never spoke her name out loud again.

He was apparently also in love with Jane Seymour - she died young, having just given birth to his only legitimate son, and thus did not have enough time to annoy him to the point of trying to be rid of her.

Answer 4

King Henry Tudor ( (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) is famous for having been married six times, and executed two of them. Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard (both are distant cousins).

Queen Katherine of Aragon (married from 1509 - 1533) - Divorced and Died (believed to be posioned by Queen Anne Boleyn).

Queen Anne Boleyn (married 1533 - 1536) - Executed for treason, adultery, witchcraft.

Queen Jane Seymour (married 1536 - 1537) Died from giving birth to the only male heir future King Edward VI.

Queen Anne of Cleves (married 1540 Jan. - July) - Divorced

Queen Kathryn Howard (married 1540 - 1542) - Executed for treason, adultery.

Queen Katherine Parr (married 1543 - 1547) - Widowed

The love between Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn ended in tragedy. He loved her to the point of breaking away from the Catholic faith and establishing a protestant nation.

He probably falled in love with each and every one of his wives (except Anne of Cleves), however, the ones what were executed was because they were unfaithful. The ones that he didn't execute either died from childbirth, died from natural causes and the last one didn't get a chance to do anything before he died himself.

Read more at http://tudorhistory.org/wives/

Answer 5

He had 2 of his 6 wives beheaded:  Ann Boleyn and Catherine Howard.  

He probably loved his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, but got tired of her.  He divorced her, let her live, and married Ann Boleyn.  Then he fell in love with Jane Seymour and needed to get Ann out of the way.  Amid accusations of witchcraft and infidelity, she was beheaded.

He absolutely loved his next wife, Jane Seymour, and married her just 11 days after Ann was killed.  But Jane died in childbirth a year later.  He considered her his one "true" wife.

His next marriage, to Ann of Cleves, was a political arrangement.  He didn't love her or find her attractive, so the marriage was quickly annulled and she lived a pretty happy life as "sister of the king."

His next marriage, to Catherine Howard, ended badly too.  She was young, somewhere between 15 and 20.  She probably wasn't a virgin upon marriage and had affairs during the marriage.  Henry supposedly was truly heartbroken, as he had loved her, but he had her beheaded.

His last marriage, to Catherine Parr, could have gone badly but didn't.  Catherine was older, smart and outspoken and Henry almost had her killed, but she talked her way out of it.  He died while married to her, and she received quite an inheritance.  

Henry was buried with his "true wife," Jane Seymour.