The Tudor dynasty

1. The Tudor Dynasty
1485
-
1603

2. War of the Roses
 English Civil War to determine who would
take the throne
 House of York
 House of Lancaster
 War lasted from 1453 - 1487
 Henry of Lancaster led his house to victory

3. War of the Roses
 Henry Tudor became Henry VII of England
 He married the daughter of the dead leader
of the house of York, uniting the two houses
 The TUDOR Dynasty had begun

4. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
•Henry VIII
Henry VIII

5. KING HENRY VIII
- He was big and handsome and wore fine
clothes.
- He loved tennis, horse riding and hunting.
- He spoke four languages, wrote poetry
and played music.
- He enjoyed extravagant dishes some as
exotic as dolphin meat!
- He even enjoyed alcoholic drinks
containing pure gold!
BUT
HE MOST WANTED A SON TO
SUCCEED HIM.

6.  The Beginning:
 Henry VIII was given permission
from the Pope to marry his
brother’s widow
WIFE #1 – CATHERINE OF ARAGON

7.  The Problem:
 Catherine failed to produce a male heir –
she only had one surviving child – Mary
 Henry wanted a divorce, but Pope
Clement VII wouldn’t invalidate the
marriage
 Henry tried to get Church to do what he
wanted, and appointed Sir Thomas More
as English Cardinal
WIFE #1 – CATHERINE OF ARAGON

8.  The Result: DIVORCE
 More wouldn’t support the divorce
 Henry proceeded to dissolve his ties
to the Pope
 ENGLISH REFORMATION – Henry
VIII took control of the English clergy
and had himself appointed the head
of the Church of England
 He divorced Catherine and married
his lover Anne Boleyn

9.  The Beginning: he began an
affair with Anne Boleyn while
still married to his first wife
WIFE #2 – ANNE BOLEYN

10.  The Problem: Only had 1 surviving
child – a daughter, Elizabeth
 Henry upset at not having a son,
accused Anne of incest and adultery
WIFE #2 – ANNE BOLEYN

11.  The Result: BEHEADED
 Anne was brought to the Tower of
London and EXECUTED
WIFE #2 – ANNE BOLEYN

12.  Legend had it she had a sixth finger
and a large mole or goiter on her neck
 Just prior to her execution, Anne’s
marriage to Henry was dissolved and
considered invalid
WIFE #2 – ANNE BOLEYN

13.  The Beginning:
 First came to the court in the service of
Queen Catherine; later she waited on
Queen Anne Boleyn
 Henry felt she was his first
“true wife”
 On October 12, 1537 she
gave birth to the wished-for A SON
WIFE #3 – Jane Seymour

14.  The Problem:
 Complications in childbirth
WIFE #3 – Jane Seymour

15.  The Result: DIED
 She died 2 weeks after giving birth to
Henry’s only legitimate son – Edward
 She is the only one of the 6 wives buried
with him.
WIFE #3 – Jane Seymour

16. BRIEF RECAP:
WHO ARE THE 3 LEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF
HENRY VIII?
 MARY (mom divorced)
 ELIZABETH (mom beheaded)
 EDWARD (mom died)

17.  The Beginning:
 Henry was single for 2 years after Jane died
 Henry wanted a marriage for political reasons,
to form an Alliance between the new English
Protestants and German Protestants
 He hired a painter to find him a potential ally
and paint the women who could make it
possible – the painter chose Anne of Cleves,
from Germany
WIFE #4 – ANNE OF CLEVES

18.  The Problem:
 Once Henry VIII saw her in person, he found
her extremely unattractive
 He went through with the marriage because of
political reasons, but he never was attracted
to her or loved her
WIFE #4 – ANNE OF CLEVES

19.  The Result: DIVORCED
 He could not stand being married to her, and
though it cost him politically, he soon divorced
her
WIFE #4 – ANNE OF CLEVES

20.  The Beginning:
 She was a cousin of Anne Boleyn (wife #2)
 Married her only 16 days after his divorce to
Anne of Cleves – he was 49, she was 19
WIFE #5 – CATHRYN HOWARD

21.  The Problem:
 He called her his “rose without a thorn”
 She began having multiple affairs within the
castle
WIFE #5 – CATHRYN HOW
WIFE #5 – CATHRYN HOWARD

22.  The Result: BEHEADED
 She was executed on charges of adultery
There has never been a confirmed
portrait of Cathryn Howard. However,
experts believe this may be her due to
the necklace she is wearing.
WIFE #5 – CATHRYN HOWARD

23.  Widowed twice before marrying Henry
 Became a stabilizing mother figure in home – to
Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward
 Persuaded Henry to bring the daughters back to
the castle and reinstate them as his legitimate
children
 She outlived Henry, who died
January 28, 1547
 It is said by many that this was
the only wife he truly loved
WIFE #6 – Katherine Parr

24. 1. CATHERINE OF ARAGON
2. ANNE BOLEYN
3. JANE SEYMOUR
4. ANNE OF CLEVES
5. CATHRYN HOWARD
6. KATHERINE PARR
To recap…
the wives of Henry VIII

26. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
•Edward VI
King Edward VI
 Crowned at the age of nine
 Had a good relationship with his sisters
 He died at the age of 15 from fever &
cough

27. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI
•Mary I
Queen Mary I
 “Bloody Mary” – when she took the throne,
she returned Catholicism to England,
executing anyone involved in the
Protestant Reformation
 She imprisoned Elizabeth, her sister, in
the Tower of London when Elizabeth was
21
 However, Mary wed Phillip of Spain, and
shortly afterwards became pregnant

28. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI
•Mary I
Queen Mary I
 Since she was pregnant with
an heir to the throne, she no
longer saw Elizabeth as a
threat, and released her
 Her belly continued to swell,
but there was no baby
 Mary died from what is now
believed to be a large tumor in
her stomach

29. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI
• Mary I
•Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I
 Queen Elizabeth I took the throne
 Considered the best ruler in the
history of all of England
 Restored Protestantism, but ruled
with tolerance
 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
 Huge patron of the arts

30. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI
• Mary I
• Elizabeth I
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
•James I
not Tudor –
King of Scotland
 Elizabeth died in 1603 at the age of
seventy
 She had ruled England for 45 years
 She had no heir to the throne, so
the crown passed to King James of
Scotland
 He ruled well, continuing her love
and patronage of the arts
 He also supported religious freedom
for the common man

31. TUDOR RULERS
• Henry VII
• Henry VIII
• Edward VI
• Mary I
• Elizabeth I
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
•James I
not Tudor –
King of Scotland
King James

33. Top 10 fascinating Tudor Facts:
1. The Tudors didn’t have forks – they ate with
knives and their fingers.
2. Only rich boys could go to school in Tudor
times. Rich girls received an education at
home and poor children had to work to earn
money for their families.
3. Tudor school teachers were very strict – you
were given 50 lashes with the cane if you
misbehaved.

34. 4. The punishment for fighting in the royal court was
having your hand chopped off!
5. The Tudors liked keeping pets. It is thought that Mary
I had a pet parrot while Elizabeth I had a pet monkey.
6. Tudors knew very little about how to cure diseases.
Only rich people could afford doctors but they had no
better chance of surviving an illness. Common cures
included eating spiders in butter to cure a cough and
pressing a hangman’s rope to your head for a headache.
7.Henry VIII’s toilet attendant (called the ‘Groom of the
Stool’) was the most important royal servant. Only four
people had this role during his reign.

35. 8. Potatoes were first brought to Britain in the 1580s from
the New World.
9. It was illegal to beg for money or food in the Tudor
period unless you were disabled in some way. If people
didn’t have a job, they had no way to earn money so often
pretended to be disabled so they could beg.
10. Sugar became a very popular commodity amongst
wealthy people in Tudor times but it was so expensive that
only the rich could afford it. Elizabeth I had a very sweet
tooth and ate so much sugar that her teeth rotted and
turned black. This started a fashion for black teeth among
rich people – they wanted to show that they could afford
lots of sugar too!

36. THE END