When Was Henry I Married

as mentioned in the introduction. Before she married Henry, she was previously married to his older brother, Arthur at the age of 16. 5 months later, he died so Henry was given two orders from his father; get married to Catherine and get a male heir. On 11 June 1509, Henry and Catherine got married. The marriage between them lasted 24 years. Catherine only gave Henry one surviving child, who later became known as Mary I. She miscarried all her male babies. Henry believed that God was punishing him for having married his brother’s wife. He found a passage in the bible that backed his belief. The passage said, “If a man shall take his brother’s wife, they shall be childless”. Henry was starting to get frustrated that he didn’t have a male heir and wanted a divorce. In 1503, he asked his Cardinal Thomas Wolsey to get it arranged. However, Catherine kept refusing it. Henry couldn’t kill or behead her because of how powerful Spain was at the time, but Catherine was too boring, at the age of 40, for Henry. So, he went to the Pope to get a divorce, but the Pope didn’t like Henry divorcing one wife to marry another. So, Henry got excommunicated. However, Henry was so determined to get the divorce that he made his own church, Church of England,

However, a consequence for this marriage was that Henry began the Reformation of England and made himself head of church, which still affects the Queen today. Another consequence was that Catherine could not produce a living male heir and had to be sent back, which meant Spain felt deceived and became one of their enemies. Also, this lead to the problem of the Spanish Armada. But if Catherine gave birth to a male baby, then maybe Henry would have divorced Catherine and she would have still been married to Henry. Which would keep the alliance going with Spain and wouldn’t have led to the Spanish