King Henry VIII, second son of Henry VII, was the most formidable and famous king who ever reigned in England. Because he wanted a male heir, he married six different times throughout his reign. He married for both political and formal reasons. Henry Tudor, named after his father, Henry VII, was born June 28, 1491 in Greenwich Palace, London. Since he was the second son, and not expected to become king, there is little to find out …showed first 75 words of 1768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1768 total…Henry’s three children. After Henry died in January 1547, Catherine remarried a former suitor, Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudeley. She died shortly after giving birth to a daughter in 1549. At two o’clock in the morning, on January 28, 1547, King Henry VIII gave his spirit to God and departed this world. He was fifty-five years old. He was the most formidable and famous king who ever reigned in England. This was an end of an era.