Did King Henry the eighth practiced polygamy?

Question

King Henry the eighth the founder of the protestant Church in 500 AD had many wives. Did they die naturally or he killed one to marry the other or he had them all at once?

Answer 1

No.  At no time was he married to more than one of them.

Answer 2

No.  he never had more than 1 wife at a time

Answer 3

Yeah, until he got it right.

Answer 4

First off it wasn't 500 AD, it was 1500 AD and legally he did not practice polygamy but obviously through his personal life we know that he wasn't a monogamous man.

Answer 5

I am not sure what you are trying to say here.

Henry the 8th., was into decapitation of his wives heads. He was a, "serial monogamist." lol

As for the founder of the protestant church? No, Paul established that! Oh, I mean Saul of Tarsus...known as Paul!

As for the Catholic Church, it is Peter who is proclaimed the first Pope.

So, we differ in our opinions on this. But, know this, just because a man sins, it does not mean that they are rejected by the Lord as all are welcome to come to HIM! No matter what you've done, He will forgive if you are truly repentive.

Answer 6

Divorced, beheaded, died;

divorced, beheaded, survived.

Catherine, Anne, Jane;

Anne, Catherine and Katherine again.

Answer 7

You are 1000 years wrong here he's born around 1500.

Now about his wives, He got rid of 5 , the last one over lived him.

Officially he married only twice the other 4 he got annulled.

Answer 8

He lived in the 16th Century not the 6th Century. He didn't practice polygmay, he was never married to more than one woman at once.

His first wife - Catherine of Aragon - divorced

Second wife- Anne Boleyn - executed

Third wife - Jane Seymour - died whilst giving birth to the future Edward VII - Henry VIII's only surviving son

Fourth wife- Anne of Cleves - Divorced but remained on good terms for the rest of his life

Fifth wife- Catherine Howard- executed

Sixth wife- Katherine Parr- survived him and remarried

Answer 9

they either died were divorced or he had them killed he did not practise polygamy

Answer 10

He wasn't a polygamist.  He had six wives (Katharine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleeves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr) and he married them all on separate occasions.  He divorced two, beheaded two, one died shortly after giving birth, and his last wife, Catherine Parr, outlived him.  You can remember the means by which his wives were disposed of with a little rhyme:

Divorced, beheaded, died,

divorced, beheaded, survived.

It should be noted, however, that Henry married Anne Boleyn secretly before he was legally divorced from Katharine of Aragon, so he was guilty of bigamy for a short time.  Also, Catholics never accepted the divorce as legal at all, and so believed his subsequent marriages to be bigamous.

Also, he split from the Catholic Church in the 1530s, not 500 AD.

Answer 11

500 ad?

more like the 1500's....

and he's the founder of the anglican church, invented it so that he could get divorced from his wife because the pope refused to annul his marriage to her.

Answer 12

Henry divorced his first wife because she could not give him a son. His second wife only produced a daughter, so he had her beheaded on trumped up charges. His third wife gave him a son at last, but died in childbirth. He divorced his fourth wife (technically, the marriage was annuled). His fifth was beheaded for adultery. And the sixth one survived him.

So he could not be called polygamous, because he only had one wife at a time.

Answer 13

King Henry had many wives in matter of fact he had six wives but he did not marry all them at the same time, thy were spreaded out it was like when he got tired of one he found a way to have another. Some died naturally other and some were beheaded like his  second wife Ann Boleyn that he had one child by and then he killed her, another that got behead was his fifth wife Katherin Howard. His first wife Catherin that he had one child the childs name was Mary and  he kept her, his fourth wife Ann of Cleves from Germany, and  his third wife Jane Seymore who did while giving birth to her son Edward VI. But the one who had good fortune to out live him was his sixth wife Katherine Parr that was his last and final wife that he married.

Answer 14

No he didn't. He founded the Church of England so that he had freedom to marry and divorce which he could not have as a Catholic, and also then he could claim land and property and valuables from the Catholic Church in England. He got three of his six wives killed for various excuses - his last wife was still alive when he died, and he divorced Anne of Cleves (who came from Belgium) without having her terminated. He has a bad reputation mainly because of his personal life. He lived 1491-1547.

Answer 15

First of all, my friend, let's get our dates right. King Henry the Eighth reigned from 1509-1547. Yes, he founded the Church of England, but obviously not in the century you mentioned!

And to answer your question, no, he never practiced polygamy. He had six wives in total--in all marriages, he was either divorced or widowed before he went on to the next wife.

His first wife was Catherine of Aragon. He divorced her so he could marry his second wife, Anne Boleyn. (He founded the Anglican Church because the Pope would not grant his divorce).

He had Anne Boleyn beheaded on trumped up charges of treason and incest, but in reality, he had gotten another woman, Jane Seymour pregnant. He married her after Anne's death.

Jane died in childbirth, and Henry married Anne of Cleves. After divorcing Anne, he fell for and married Catherine Howard. She was thought to be adulterous, so she was beheaded. After which, Henry married his final wife, Catherine Parr, who outlived him!

Answer 16

No.  Appears he didn't need to worry about 'doubling up' problems.  He had the means to properly dispose of them.

Answer 17

monogamy. If they failed to give him a son they were beheaded except Ann Bolin he liked her so decided to divorce instead but the pope would not grant this so out with the catholic church. hence the protestant church.