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| Dagney | The last words of King Henry VIII (page: 1 2) | 27 | Apr 2 2009, 6:37 PM EDT by Maggie-AnneB. | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 10 2009, 6:00 AM EDT
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I read somewhere that the last words of Henry was 'Anne , Anne, Anne Boleyn!' and 'Monks, monks , monks!'.Is that true that he called Anne's name in the end?
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| theothertudorgirl | One Of My Teacher's Thoughts On Henry's Death | 10 | Mar 22 2009, 1:33 PM EDT by Boudica | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 21 2009, 4:12 AM EDT
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I was in Computers Class the other day at school and I have to design a survey on the computer and I was telling my friend I was going to ask who was favourite wife of Henry VIII. Well to cut a long story short, my teacher overheard and I found out that she watches 'The Tudors' aswell. I found this kind of funny.
She asked me 'was he the one that died of a 'sexually transmitted disease?' I was kind of gobsmacked that she asked this but it got me thinking, did he? I don't think he did but really who knows? What are your opinions?
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| Boudica | Henry's Comrades: other Kings who fought for divorce and remarriage | 6 | Feb 11 2009, 6:12 PM EST by angelosdaughter | ||||
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Thread started: Feb 10 2009, 10:49 AM EST
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Last night I was cleaning my house to get ready for some out of town guests, and sure enough when I got to my bookshelf I ended up not cleaning anymore but reading books (does that ever happen to any one else?)! So I found this book I bought on clearance a while ago written by a social historian, Stephanie Coontz, on the topic of the evolution of marriage. I didn't think it could happen but I found a man who makes Henry VIII look like Mike Brady. Meet King Lothar II from 9th century France!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A21897570 It's amazing because, his story almost sounds like a more extreme play by play of Henry VIII's divorce from Katherine of Aragon, with even more tragic concequences. Like Henry, Lothar needed a legitmate male heir which he didn't get from his lawful wife Theutberga who was the sister of a powerful family who's support he needed in order to protect his kingdom from his uncles who wanted to invade. (sound similar to KoA and the Imperial alliance?) But Lothar did have a son, with his mistress, so he seperated from Theutberga saying she commited adultery with Lothar's brother. Theutberga refused to go away to a convent and offered to under go the medieval custom of trial by ordeal (Coontz explained it was a volunteer stand in "champion" that took her place and had his arms scalded in boiling water then bandaged, if infection didn't grow after three days she considered innocent), which she passed. Divorce was hard to get at this time because the current pope, Nicolas I, had taken a harder line on divorce and remarriage than his predecessors had. This divorce process draged on for years, with Lothar going back and forth between his two "wives" under various orders from various authorities. It was a horrible mess, and in the end Pope Nicolas excommunicated Waldreda (Lothar's mistress/ second wife), and Lothar died before the divorce was resolved, his lands invaded by his uncles.
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| TeriCanDoIt | Health of Henry VIII | 4 | Nov 13 2008, 6:16 PM EST by OisinMacFionn | ||||
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Thread started: Nov 13 2008, 4:48 AM EST
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After reading around I found that one possible cause of all the stillborns and miscarriages was that Henry may have had syphilis. Can anyone add to this any resources to this theroy or input.
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