Any historians out there?

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I was always of the opinion that Henry VIII didn't have any sons, that's why he beheaded a couple of his wives, and that Elizabeth I became queen. However, my ds had to do a report on him for school, and when we were looking him up it said that Jane Seymour had a son by him called Edward! So, what happened to him?! I know it's very late, and perhaps a tad boring but I am intrigued!!

Edward VI, (1537 - 1553), I don't think his health was ever good, some speculation that he suffered from congenital syphilis

Edawrd VI

Ah, my field!
Jane Seymour (Henry's 3rd wife) had a son called Edward (she died a few day after he was born of puerpal fever - infection in other words). When Henry died Edward became Edward VI at the age of 9. His sisters, Mary (Katherine of Aragon's daughter) and Elizabeth (Anne Boleyn's daughter) were next in line to the throne in that order. Edward was pretty sickly and died at the age of 16 (having made England Protestant under the guidance of his uncle the Regent). Mary became Queen and worked to getting England Catholic again. She wasn't popular mainly for marrying Philip the King of Spain ... she died childless and the throne went to Elizabeth the first who made England Protestant again.

People think that Henry VIII made England Protestant but he was actually a staunch Catholic until he died - he just binned the Pope because the Pope wouldn't let him divorce his first wife (Katherine of Aragon).

Henry VIII died in 1549 and Elizabeth I became Queen in 1558 so there was 9 years of religious toing and froing between Protestantism and Catholicism along with executions and burnings etc (Mary I was nicknamed Bloody Mary because of the Protestant witchhunting and burnings etc)

Henry only beheaded 2 of his wives - Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard (both for being tarts but Anne was mainly "got rid of" for not having sons). Two of his wives were divorced (Katherine of Aragon for not having sons and Anne of Cleves for being ugly ), one died (Jane Seymour) and the last one, Catherine Parr, looked after him in his old age, survived him married her childhood sweetheart then died in childbirth having her first baby

Very very simplified history there - will it do?

Doh, just read that link .... 1547 ... not 1549 ...
I'll get me coat

Thanks so much, DS has actually put that Henry VII made England protestant, but he got that from a WEBSITE!! !!