Born on Feb. 18, 1516, in Greenwich, England, to King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, Mary was the only one of her siblings to survive past infancy.

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Fifteen years later, when King Henry died without an heir, the country slipped into civil war and “the bloodiest anarchy that England has ever suffered,” only recovering when in 1154 his ...

She is part of a team seeking backing to search for the ruins of Reading Abbey, founded by Henry in 1121 and where he was buried after his death 14 years later, allegedly brought about by eating ...

Her new husband’s name: Owen Tudor, grandfather of Henry VII and the unlikely founder of one of England’s most well-known royal houses.

Henry VIII’s decision to form the Church of England proved predictably contentious, as evidenced by the 1536 Pilgrimage of Grace uprising, which found some 30,000 Northerners taking up arms in ...

King Henry I of England, who took the throne in year 1100, died without an heir in 1135 of an illness thought to be brought on by eating lampreys, a type of jawless fish, against his doctor's orders.

Henry I died in Normandy, France in 1135 after eating lamprey, a type of fish. But, due to bad weather, it took a while to get his body home to England. "He was finally brought back to England, by ...