Ruler · Early modern period · England

Henry VIII

1491–1547

King of England from 1509 to 1547, born in 1491, who broke with Rome and made himself head of the Church of England. His six marriages and the quest for a male heir drove the break; the dissolution of the monasteries followed. England's navy and its sense of separateness from Europe date much to his reign.

Facts

Born: 1491, Greenwich.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry VIII
Died: 1547, Whitehall.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry VIII
Reign: 1509 to 1547.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry VIII
Realm: England.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry VIII
Known for: The break with Rome (1534), the dissolution of the monasteries, and his six marriages.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Henry VIII

Images

Henry VIII, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger (Wikimedia Commons)

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