Henry VIII of England Biography, Early life, and His Wives
Henry VIII was born on June 28, 1491, in Placentia Palace (Greenwich, England). He was king of England and Ireland from 1509 until his death. He was the second of the Tudor dynasty. Son of Henry VII, the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty, and Elizabeth of York. He broke with the Roman Church and founded the Church of England or Anglican.The legal and theological controversy relating to the validity of her first marriage to Catherine of Aragon and its recognition of nullity was one of the main causes of the schism in 1534 of the Church of England with Rome and the English Reformation.Henri VIII supervised this separation within particular the dissolution of the monasteries and was for that excommunicated; he nevertheless remained a defender of the fundamentals of Catholic t...