Catherine of Aragon

  Noted events in her life were:

• fact. Catherine of Aragon Infanta Catalina de Aragón y Castilla, was the Queen of England as the first wife of Henry VIII. Henry's attempt to have their twenty-four-year marriage annulled set in motion a chain of events that led to England's break with the Roman Catholic Church. Henry was dissatisfied with the marriage because all their sons had died in childhood, leaving only one of their six children, Princess Mary (later Queen Mary I) as heiress presumptive, at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry defied him and married Anne Boleyn anyway, in the hope of fathering a male heir to the Tudor dynasty.

Catherine married Henry VIII House of Tudor, son of Henry VII Tudor King of England Lord of Ireland and Elizabeth of York, on 11 Jun 1509. (Henry VIII House of Tudor was born on 28 Jun 1491 in Greenwich Palace, London England and died on 28 Jan 1547 in Palace of Whitehall, London England.)