the ledger of connections
The Connections of Henry VIII
King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547) Every person recorded alongside Henry VIII in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Henry VIII in the ledgers of the archive.
- Spouses
- Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, Catherine Parr
- Children
- Mary I of England, Elizabeth I, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, Edward VI of England, Henry, Duke of Cornwall, stillborn daughter Tudor (1510), stillborn son Tudor, Henry, Duke of Cornwall (1514), stillborn daughter Tudor (1518), Henry, Duke of Cornwall, miscarried son Tudor, Catherine Carey
- Siblings
- Elizabeth Tudor, Margaret Tudor, Mary Tudor, Katherine Tudor, Edward Tudor, Arthur, Prince of Wales, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1491 to 1547.
Medieval era
Lucien, Lord of Monaco
1481 – August 22, 1523
Lord of Monaco
Medieval era
Guru Nanak
April 15, 1469 – September 22, 1539
First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
Medieval era
Ignatius of Loyola
October 23, 1491 – July 31, 1556
Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
Medieval era
Selim I
October 10, 1470 – September 22, 1520
9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
Medieval era
Suleiman the Magnificent
November 6, 1494 – September 6, 1566
The tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
Medieval era
Ferdinand II of Aragon
March 10, 1452 – January 23, 1516
King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
Medieval era
Isabella I of Castile
April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504
Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
Medieval era
Babur
February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530
Founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
Medieval era
Montezuma II
1466 – June 29, 1520
9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)
Medieval era
Nicolaus Copernicus
February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543
Polish mathematician and astronomer (1473-1543)
Medieval era
Paracelsus
November 10, 1493 – September 24, 1541
Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
Medieval era
Thomas More
February 7, 1478 – July 6, 1535
English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)