Judge not forYou , will be judged, with the same amount of judgement you mete out, it will be mete back to you, is that what you really want, repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, Amen😮!
@@patriciadavis2506 I don't believe in God. We are responsible for our actions, our consequences and the memory we leave. I am fine with being judged by posterity, thank you. I also always mistrust those who use religion as you just did. Check yourself.
He didn't die peacefully. His massive body was covered in bed sores, festering seeping wounds, and festering boils He was so fat that he couldn't really walk, he had trouble moving his bowels because he wouldn't walk. He was a decaying lump of fat and melting flesh.
He’s right where he belongs. That’s probably why he hasn’t been moved. His kids could’ve completed his wishes. But didn’t. Think that inaction by his family, speaks loudly and clearly for itself
It does and it doesn't. His son was only 9, but was a very strict Protestant, which was very asture compared to the Catholic Church.. Henry was a Catholic most of his life. The plans Henry had were very elaborate and not in keeping with the more plain practices of his son. Obviously his daughters had reasons to leave well enough alone
Too true. None of them wanted a fantastic tomb to memorialize him. He is in a musty vault with his wife Queen Jane and the headless Charles the first and Lord Nelson is in the black marble sarcophagus that once belonged to Cardinal Wolsey and was taken by Henry when Wolsey died.
That actually doesn’t speak of anything. Many great people in history never had their final wishes granted, and it had nothing to do with anger or spite. It often comes down to cost or other issues.
@@simonecathron8495While I DESPISE Biden, he is just a puppet of Barak Obama. Obama is doing exactly what he said he dreamed of doing..sitting comfortably in a track suit whilst talking to Biden thru an earpiece telling him what to say, where to go and who to screw over next. Biden couldn't even run a cemetary.
You have to remember he was a man of the 15th and 16th centuries, values were different then and beliefs were different. He was the last Medieval King and the first Renaissance King of England starting in the 1520s. He was also an absolute Monarch with no checks on his power.
@@kirkmorrison6131 Absolutely. But that would excuse his lack of empathy for anyone he brutally murdered especially his wives. Thank you for your comment
His life--obesity included--was enough of a monument to his ego and self-indulgence, for all the world to see. He is arguably the best known European king to this day, without most people knowing the whereabouts of his remains.
@@thethoughtfulpeanut6662 Look at the magnificent memorial his father left in building that Lady Chapel onto Westminster Abbey. I saw the plans for the elaborate memorial to be built in St. George's chapel. It never happened. He didn't even get laid in that black marble sarcophagus that he got off Cardinal Wolsey. Lord Nelson lies in it in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Growing up I heard a story passed down that it was Henry the VIII that took the dairy farm of my family in Cornwall England, forget the exact year, somewhere in the 1530’s. About 10 years ago I randomly came across an article online showcasing certain properties owned by the current crown, well at the time ERII, one of them said dairy farmland acquired by Henry the VIII in 153x for an unpaid debt (once again forget the exact yr, 1535, 1537? - somewhere in there) saw it and made me wonder, was that it? Sounds like Henry was doing a lot of that towards the end, fining people non-repayable debts and then claiming estates. In the case of my relative, he fined him 1,000,000 pounds. My direct family all left England by the 1750’s and eventually became Americans once the US officially gained independence, life goes on but it’s still interesting to me how long that story was successfully passed down, now almost 500 years, I mean literally when I was 4 or 5 years old it was, “Once upon a time, there was a very bad King… (Yikes, I guess my ancestors didn’t want any of their descendants to forget about it 😂) it was explained what happened, tailored for little kids it was ‘he took all of our milk and our cows’ and if I remember correctly it even ended with an instruction like ‘you must pass this onto your children one day’… now that I think about it… damn they were pissed, but it worked, we had to promise to it. Now it’s just a funny memory.
Henry VIII deserves nothing. In life he was evil. In death he should be remembered only as England’s worst ogre. The worst disgrace so far in a family of many such cruel inept failures. Henry’s only positive legacy was the Royal Mail: now the tories have destroyed that in all but name leaving nothing good from Henry though much of his legacy remains as testaments to his damage of centuries of culture.
The tomb that Henry was planning to be buried in (that he appropriated from Cardinal Wolsey after charging him with treason) was not wasted. It now stands in St Paul's Cathedral and holds the body of one of England's greatest heroes Horatio Nelson.
Henry VIII was a horrid man, and even though he apparently suffered greatly for years because of the jousting injury he sustained in his 30’s, he somehow managed to die a peaceful death. He also died believing he left an heir who would rule over England. But Edward, the son Jane Seymour died bringing into the world, was sickly all his short life, and didn’t live long enough to rule as a sovereign king. He was so young when he became king that the country was effectively run by older men as his regents. I have always found it ironic that Henry had Anne Boleyn executed essentially because she didn’t provide him with a son. And yet the daughter of that murdered wife turned out to be one of England’s greatest and longest living monarchs. I am curious to know why his beloved son wasn’t buried beside his parents, Henry and Jane Seymour. Does anyone know where Edward was/is buried?
@@user-fo6tk1dw2l She had great odds to overcome because of her mother’s and father’s history, and the religious divide created by Henry in order to marry Anne. So much controversy over the marriage, and that followed her. She had the good sense to never marry because of how compromised her position would be. She had some very difficult decisions to make, and whether or not I would have made them (specifically the execution of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots), she waited a long time to read the political climate around Mary before making that decision. Ironic that Mary’s son would one day be king! Also, though we know the weather had much to do with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, she did “rally the troops,” so to speak and inspire them. She ruled longer than any Royal before her. She survived. Considering all of this, it makes her a great monarch in her time! Thank you for info about Edward. I wonder why he wasn’t buried with his parents.
@@user-fo6tk1dw2lWere you there? Tell us all the gossip, especially the bit about England never having a good monarch. I’m dying to know how you deduced this.
@@cydkriletich6538 Not to mention that she was a woman in a time when women didn't do such things and were merely there for shagging, having babies and waiting on blokes hand and foot! Not much has changed. The irony isn't lost on me, however, Elizabeth I proved otherwise. And although I am in no way a Royalist, she, as a woman, kicked ass in one form or another. Longer than most of us are alive!
@@user-fo6tk1dw2l Not to mention that she was a woman in a time when women didn't do such things and were merely there for shagging, having babies and waiting on blokes hand and foot! Not much has changed. The irony isn't lost on me, however, Elizabeth I proved otherwise. And although I am in no way a Royalist, she, as a woman, kicked ass in one form or another. Longer than most of us are alive!
I think it would be fitting if they erased him like he destroyed the history of the prior kings. There been no other king that has done more to destroy the history of England than this idiot. He made a concerted effort to do so.
Nope, HRM Henry VIII, of happy memory, is right where he belongs. Yes, he did some good things for England, some of which live on still. But a few good deeds don't atone for the many evil deeds he did. His hands are dripping with the blood of the thousands of people he put to death, including children. So I see absolutely no reason whatsoever to move him.
I read that he changed the law to include boiling alive as a means of execution. The victim was to be lowered into boiling oil or water slowly feet first. Sounds like something thought up in hell.
Quite telling that this Tudor king has been left in a vault among his enemies, in a broken coffin, with a humble inscription, for all these centuries and there’s been no desire to move him; and yet just a few years ago, the newly discovered remains of the last Plantagenet king, a sworn enemy of the Tudors, was buried in a magnificent tomb which is meticulously maintained for posterity.
@@ozzierabbit587 Same with Oliver Cromwell… they dug him up and posthumously beheaded him, displaying his head on a spike over London Bridge where it stayed for about 20 years before getting blown off in a storm.
That’s a man who left a mark. The guy is still infamous nearly 500 years on. I watched a video tour of all these Tudor sites. The guide put Henry VIII in a perfect way. He said think of King Henry like you would Elvis Presley. There was a time when he was young and handsome. Charming, athletic, all that jazz. And as he aged he got heavier and meaner and had all kinds of problems of all sorts. And that’s how a lot of the world has viewed him all these centuries later. He had at least two severe head injuries. That awful leg injury. Which I really believe is what brought on the weight gain and everything that comes with that. I really liked that show The Tudors (2001-10) on Showtime. Yeah it’s a goofy “based on true events” tv series. But having Jonathan Rhys Meyers play Henry was an awesome direction to take the character. There are countless tv adaptations of him as a big burly obese tyrant. And of course the Meyers character was that and more. But he is portrayed in his younger days early on. They sped it up as the show was ending but the vast majority of it was his first three marriages. And within maybe ten episodes, a season, and huge time leaps in the final 2-3 episodes, they wrapped it up. Pretty neat adaptation I thought.
Whilst I don’t agree in my modern mind how he treated his family but, it was a different time back then. Plus we now know the head injury he suffered while “falling of his horse” as you put it would be classed as a severe brain injury in todays terms and personality changing. I’m afraid he was the product of his time. Whilst not everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet in as far as opinions. But I think he was under a lots of pressure and other influences. We will never truly know if his head injury allowed him to make the decision that were made or just the ramblings of a sick mind in the wings coaching him. Either way all very sad for him, his wife’s & children and the country.
Henry was a tyrant , but back in his time that was the way of life for people in his position. We need to remember Henry and people like him are primitive to us now, having said that we’d also be naive to think there aren’t people like him in power now Henry was under massive pressure to have a son that lived to adulthood and couldn’t , plus he did in my opinion suffer from mental illness etc since his accident, and his other health issues etc. he wasn’t fit to be a monarch in middle age onwards, but noone would dare to tell him that. A lot of the people around him weren’t great people either, When you read the accounts and opinions of him as a younger person he was a peaceful, loving, sensitive and intelligent young man. But his personality changed drastically in the second half of his life, to the monster people refer to , was this due to his ill health, mental health, apparently so. But who knows. If he was a celebrity royal now he’d have documentaries made about him and books out etc , just like Harry.
@@peadarocoileain902 I would imagine fine. After all it was a royal horse having top care. Plus I would think it kept running for a bit and stopped. No idea 😕
@@marycruet6577lots of God fearing people hurt others especially if they believe it is in the name of God. Henry VIII was willing to change his entire country's religion to bend life to his will- he wasn't allowed a divorce from his first wife as a Catholic so he wiped his hands of it. The person that Jesus seems to be has little to do with the massive movement that religion has proved to be- one that can alter governments and entire political movements. To say "he needed Jesus" is to expect a personal relationship in my opinion rather than what masquerades as a religion nowadays.
Unfortunately some historical errors. Charles 1 was beheaded by a soldier not a professional executioner. Henry 8 fell ill in late 1546 and died in 1547. Charles 1 was executed in 1649 not 1648. ( This maybe due to the change in calendar ). Correct me if I'm wrong.
Henry was hell bent on leaving a male heir, he went to great and sometimes harsh lengths to make this happen. A need to secure the throne was the overriding factor in all his marriages, even today this need for male heirs in Royal families still exists….although not resorting to killing off the unproductive wives. I don’t believe Henry was a truly cruel man, he just put the security of the throne above everything and did anything he could to make this happen. Fortunately his daughter Elizabeth 1 proved a good Queen , but never married.
I don't think he was evil. I think he had brain damage. Not as severe as Phineas Gage, but enough where it severally altered his personality. It doesn't make him likeable or excuse his deeds, but it explains the lengths he went to.
I believe due to the times not having a male heir was a slam to a man’s manhood. He being a narcissist king found reasons to explain that away that didn’t involve him. It was the wives fault. People didn’t understand back then how things worked and superstitions were plenty. People who may not have liked the wives were whispering in his ear. A lot of things happened back then in that time period that we look at as impossible, but for the times it was or could be any day behavior.
He killed among a great many others that great man Thomas more.for that alone he was a terrible king.i think in the beginning he had good intentions but he was spoiled self centered immature and insecure
Given the war of the roses, the throne under tumor rule was still at risk. Which is why he was so intent on leaving an heir. But in the history of England, he is FAR from one of the cruellest or most evil.
So, the video makes no mention of what was found when Henry VIII's coffin was opened nor does it present any photos of the event. Was this omission by design or just something that was overlooked ?
It's strongly thought that he suffered a brain injury in that jousting incident. His personality drastically changed, and the weight gain is also connected. He became a horrible man and should never have been allowed to do the things he did.
One you are placing modern values on a Society leaving the Medieval Period. All Kings in Europe were tyrants. Even the most enlightened. They had few they could trust. Henry had More and Archbishop Fisher, both of whom he executed as they would not leave Roman Catholicism. After he was injured in a jousting accident and was knocked out for 2 hours he became unstable, a Severe TBI. He was unstable and dangerous and cruel, it was treason to tell any king's day of death or that they were unfit to rule.
This channel has a nasty habit of being very anti-Catholic when talking about Catholic monarchs, I’m not shocked it was Charles and not Henry or Elizabeth I that was called a barbaric tyrant
@@macgyversmacbook1861 You again! Charles was Protestant his wife was Catholic and most of the anti-Catholic rhetoric levelled against Charles was through his wife and almost all of it false, Charles wasn't barbaric per se but he was a arrogant and short tempered and his unwillingness to change or compromise started the civil war which resulted in the deaths of over 200k people directly and indirectly which is a staggering amount when you remember that the population was around 5M at the time. Barbaric is probably the wrong word to use but his arrogance was costly in blood, a hell of a lot more than blood than Henry VIII ever spilled.
The overweight king's body exploded both before and after he was interred. According to this video the first time the body blew up liquid spilled out from the casket and was licked up by dogs!!!! Horrifying indeed!!
There you can get how much secretly elizabeth I hated his father. She slapped and avenged Henry burying with enemy finishing his blood and not compeleting his grand burial sote 😂😂😂
Cruel, they pretty much had not choice. Look at Putin and Xi's behaviour. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" Paraphrased from a line from the play King Henry the Fourth, Part Two, by William Shakespeare
Great work Karl! I don't know if replacing Simon is temporary or not, but you're growing on me fast. Sure, Simon is a treasure, and I hope whatever he is doing is good for him and his career. In earlier videos, I thought about leaving a comment asking you to slightly slow down & and articulate a bit more clearly, but you seem to be doing that already. You're hitting your stride and developing a great persona. Looking forward to seeing you in the future.
King Charles I, often maligned by those who misunderstand him, was not "brutal and evil" - he made some political miscalculation but was an honourable and decent man who loved his family and his people.
@@ninavongunten122The ornate monument with altar where a daily requium Mass would be offered for the repose of his soul never was built. Neither was cardinal Wolsey's tomb ever built in that same chapel as was planned by him.
Thumbs down within 10 seconds. I'm not comfortable about the way people like this dismiss historic people as "barbarians" They are a product of their time, as are we. I'm sure they could have said a lot worse about us, than we can about them!
They were put in lead vessels because the lead preserves organic materials, back then they believed the heart to be where the soul was so it was an important organ spiritually. Back then if a knight etc died overseas/out of county the body couldn’t be brought back for burial because of decay and how long it was to travel back then, so in a lot of cases their heart (soul) was brought home in a lead vessel to preserve it so it could be returned to loved ones and be buried. When a monarch dies their body lies in state for a few days-weeks for their subjects to see their body, shortly after a monarch dies their body is embalmed and (in the case of the Tudor times) eviscerated and disembowelled and stuffed with herbs and spices, this was to stop decay and smells while they were lying in state. They also used lead in the coffins to prevent decay, the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was lined with lead for this reason to keep her remains intact for up to a year. The process is similar in a way to Egyptian practices however not for the same religious and spiritual beliefs and was only really used for royalty or wealthy people and they weren’t embalmed the same way as Egyptians or made into mummies lol
Good question, if only.......... What if Napoleon had prevailed in Russia..... would the battle of Waterloo been fought? Would there have been a Soviet state? Would Japan developed the desire to be a super power? Would we have MAD weaponry? I've recently heard a hypothesis that if Henry V111 hadn't disassociate the English Church from Rome the British island mentality of separation from Europe would not have given rise to BREXIT.
I hate it when they say opening the coffin of the king, because by the time they got down to it, the coffin was already jacked.. so no one really opened it
It's amazing to think he is known for being married 6 times and beheading his wife's when actually 2 were divorced, 1 died, 2 beheaded and 1 outlived him.
@@maureendavidson4635 yes, our teacher did it a bit different. I learned that in college thanks for the reminder. I went to College in the Commonwealth of Virginia where I was born
I feel for the wives that had to sleep with gat smelly man than him blaming them for not having boys back in the day they thought the woman genetics decided the sex of the kid when it's the guys DNA that does. I don't believe it was a glamour's back then as well think it was plus the fact the movies glamourize it to much.
When I’m forced to ponder Henry VII and his ilk I am relieved to remind myself it was a chronically insecure grandfather and three infertile grandchildren, punctuated by that unfettered narcissistic megalomaniac in between.
Everyone that bashes Henry for being an arsehole really has no grip on how bad the planets monarchy was before his arrival. If he hadn't have been married 6 times, no one would even be talking about him all these centuries later. I love how the likes of Cleopatra get labelled as "great, strong and independent" while completely ignoring the fact she poisoned her brother after insisting on marrying him just to have a child by him to secure the throne. I could go on and on.... I suppose we're all OK with Kings AND Queens murdering people as long as you're not married to them 🙄
Not true. His dissolution of the monasteries and the cultural vandalism that followed, which would shame even the Vandals, would have made him important enough to remember.
I wonder if even his bones are left? If so a computer scan into 3d and then having a forensic artist rebuild would be great. Henry would love that people see him anew is my guess.
Not bad...but could have been better. For example, Charles 1 is one of England's most divisive monarchs but is well admired and loved..far more than Henry 8. Indeed to the Anglican community Charles is a martyr saint. The opinion of "shocking" and unhistorical notion that Charles threw his country into bloody civil war...as if it was just the king's fault is invalid and of little historical scholarship. In future videos perhaps a more singular idea of what the video is about IE here the burial of the tyrant that was Henry 8 rather than tangent misrepresentations of historical characters such as Charles would be more correct.
my great granddad 16 times removed watched his beheading on Whitehall he was from Whitechapel and he was a pickpocket /theif he himself met a grizzly end 3 years later for thievery he was only 26 it was brutal back then he also sired 12 children 5 died stillborn people today live somewhat different lives for sure
Who else wanted to see a dead body in a coffin?😂
I’m glad I saw this comment before continuing the video
I bet his body is not a pleasant sight.
It's gonna be a skeleton. What else would you expect?
Me...I'm well disappointed 😅
Should I be funny and say well it is Halloween but any other time no
I'm glad he isn't buried where he wanted, I'm glad his coffin was moved unceremoniously. He was a bad man who doesn't deserve any pomp nor glory
Judge not forYou , will be judged, with the same amount of judgement you mete out, it will be mete back to you, is that what you really want, repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand, Amen😮!
@@patriciadavis2506 I don't believe in God. We are responsible for our actions, our consequences and the memory we leave. I am fine with being judged by posterity, thank you. I also always mistrust those who use religion as you just did. Check yourself.
@@patriciadavis2506 God is the world's oldest con job. Believe whatever you wish.
get lost..@@patriciadavis2506
I bet you wouldn’t have said that to his face.. only in death… he would’ve had your head. Lol
He didn't die peacefully. His massive body was covered in bed sores, festering seeping wounds, and festering boils
He was so fat that he couldn't really walk, he had trouble moving his bowels because he wouldn't walk. He was a decaying lump of fat and melting flesh.
All true. I'm surprised this escaped the OP.
blimey!you don't beat about with your obituaries do you?talk about lightening the mood.don't stop now!he's taking notes!
Hideous!!!!
@@motormouthalmighty😂😂😂😂
He’s right where he belongs. That’s probably why he hasn’t been moved. His kids could’ve completed his wishes. But didn’t. Think that inaction by his family, speaks loudly and clearly for itself
It does and it doesn't. His son was only 9, but was a very strict Protestant, which was very asture compared to the Catholic Church.. Henry was a Catholic most of his life. The plans Henry had were very elaborate and not in keeping with the more plain practices of his son. Obviously his daughters had reasons to leave well enough alone
Actions speak louder than words👍
Too true. None of them wanted a fantastic tomb to memorialize him. He is in a musty vault with his wife Queen Jane and the headless Charles the first and Lord Nelson is in the black marble sarcophagus that once belonged to Cardinal Wolsey and was taken by Henry when Wolsey died.
That actually doesn’t speak of anything. Many great people in history never had their final wishes granted, and it had nothing to do with anger or spite. It often comes down to cost or other issues.
@@hagbagslayer5799not really. All this speaks to is the family not wanting to dig into the coffers to build some grand tomb and move a body.
This is not about opening the coffin - it is merely about opening the vault in which his coffin is stored !
Exactly! So thumbs down
Henry is a great example of why placing too much power in the hands of one person is stupid and dangerous.
I agree
As in BIDEN
@@simonecathron8495 wow...just...wow. The president, any president, is NOT a monarch. How about you STFU..
@@simonecathron8495While I DESPISE Biden, he is just a puppet of Barak Obama. Obama is doing exactly what he said he dreamed of doing..sitting comfortably in a track suit whilst talking to Biden thru an earpiece telling him what to say, where to go and who to screw over next. Biden couldn't even run a cemetary.
@@simonecathron8495 Biden trump and bush
Too bad he didn't know men determined the sex of the baby not the woman
Even if he did, it would mess with his ego.
So very true
To bad he didn’t know that his daughter went on the be one of the greatest Queens of England-
He didn’t deserve a grand monument the way he treated his daughters and his wives. Leave him where he lays.
Agreed
You have to remember he was a man of the 15th and 16th centuries, values were different then and beliefs were different. He was the last Medieval King and the first Renaissance King of England starting in the 1520s. He was also an absolute Monarch with no checks on his power.
@@kirkmorrison6131 Absolutely. But that would excuse his lack of empathy for anyone he brutally murdered especially his wives. Thank you for your comment
His life--obesity included--was enough of a monument to his ego and self-indulgence, for all the world to see. He is arguably the best known European king to this day, without most people knowing the whereabouts of his remains.
@@thethoughtfulpeanut6662
Look at the magnificent memorial his father left in building that Lady Chapel onto Westminster Abbey. I saw the plans for the elaborate memorial to be built in St. George's chapel. It never happened. He didn't even get laid in that black marble sarcophagus that he got off Cardinal Wolsey. Lord Nelson lies in it in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, London.
Growing up I heard a story passed down that it was Henry the VIII that took the dairy farm of my family in Cornwall England, forget the exact year, somewhere in the 1530’s. About 10 years ago I randomly came across an article online showcasing certain properties owned by the current crown, well at the time ERII, one of them said dairy farmland acquired by Henry the VIII in 153x for an unpaid debt (once again forget the exact yr, 1535, 1537? - somewhere in there) saw it and made me wonder, was that it? Sounds like Henry was doing a lot of that towards the end, fining people non-repayable debts and then claiming estates. In the case of my relative, he fined him 1,000,000 pounds. My direct family all left England by the 1750’s and eventually became Americans once the US officially gained independence, life goes on but it’s still interesting to me how long that story was successfully passed down, now almost 500 years, I mean literally when I was 4 or 5 years old it was, “Once upon a time, there was a very bad King… (Yikes, I guess my ancestors didn’t want any of their descendants to forget about it 😂) it was explained what happened, tailored for little kids it was ‘he took all of our milk and our cows’ and if I remember correctly it even ended with an instruction like ‘you must pass this onto your children one day’… now that I think about it… damn they were pissed, but it worked, we had to promise to it. Now it’s just a funny memory.
Look into this: if the King took your families property by deceit, you may be entitled to having it returned to your posession.
Libertà per la Cornovaglia e lingua cronica viva!
And when they opened the coffin they found a rotted fat man. I mean, DUH!
He was a serial killer
Like many Kings back in the day
Leave it as is. Henry was greater in his mind than in reality.
he was definitely great in body :-D
Can’t deny he was stinking great 😂
Sometimes the myth is better.
Sounds like our members of congress
@@Beanoleana like Biden and trump
Henry VIII deserves nothing. In life he was evil. In death he should be remembered only as England’s worst ogre. The worst disgrace so far in a family of many such cruel inept failures. Henry’s only positive legacy was the Royal Mail: now the tories have destroyed that in all but name leaving nothing good from Henry though much of his legacy remains as testaments to his damage of centuries of culture.
The tomb that Henry was planning to be buried in (that he appropriated from Cardinal Wolsey after charging him with treason) was not wasted. It now stands in St Paul's Cathedral and holds the body of one of England's greatest heroes Horatio Nelson.
We saw this when we went there. I was so glad it was put to good use and not wasted on Henry VIII.
Nelson was a great man Henry was a man not even a good king
Thanks chas.
Whenever I see the ruins of an English monastery, abbey or priory, I curse the memory of Henry VIII.
Henry VIII was a horrid man, and even though he apparently suffered greatly for years because of the jousting injury he sustained in his 30’s, he somehow managed to die a peaceful death. He also died believing he left an heir who would rule over England. But Edward, the son Jane Seymour died bringing into the world, was sickly all his short life, and didn’t live long enough to rule as a sovereign king. He was so young when he became king that the country was effectively run by older men as his regents. I have always found it ironic that Henry had Anne Boleyn executed essentially because she didn’t provide him with a son. And yet the daughter of that murdered wife turned out to be one of England’s greatest and longest living monarchs. I am curious to know why his beloved son wasn’t buried beside his parents, Henry and Jane Seymour. Does anyone know where Edward was/is buried?
@@user-fo6tk1dw2l She had great odds to overcome because of her mother’s and father’s history, and the religious divide created by Henry in order to marry Anne. So much controversy over the marriage, and that followed her. She had the good sense to never marry because of how compromised her position would be. She had some very difficult decisions to make, and whether or not I would have made them (specifically the execution of her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots), she waited a long time to read the political climate around Mary before making that decision. Ironic that Mary’s son would one day be king! Also, though we know the weather had much to do with the defeat of the Spanish Armada, she did “rally the troops,” so to speak and inspire them. She ruled longer than any Royal before her. She survived. Considering all of this, it makes her a great monarch in her time! Thank you for info about Edward. I wonder why he wasn’t buried with his parents.
@@user-fo6tk1dw2l Okey dokie. Everyone has an opinion. This is yours. Thank you.
@@user-fo6tk1dw2lWere you there? Tell us all the gossip, especially the bit about England never having a good monarch. I’m dying to know how you deduced this.
@@cydkriletich6538 Not to mention that she was a woman in a time when women didn't do such things and were merely there for shagging, having babies and waiting on blokes hand and foot! Not much has changed. The irony isn't lost on me, however, Elizabeth I proved otherwise. And although I am in no way a Royalist, she, as a woman, kicked ass in one form or another. Longer than most of us are alive!
@@user-fo6tk1dw2l Not to mention that she was a woman in a time when women didn't do such things and were merely there for shagging, having babies and waiting on blokes hand and foot! Not much has changed. The irony isn't lost on me, however, Elizabeth I proved otherwise. And although I am in no way a Royalist, she, as a woman, kicked ass in one form or another. Longer than most of us are alive!
I think it would be fitting if they erased him like he destroyed the history of the prior kings. There been no other king that has done more to destroy the history of England than this idiot. He made a concerted effort to do so.
Nope, HRM Henry VIII, of happy memory, is right where he belongs. Yes, he did some good things for England, some of which live on still.
But a few good deeds don't atone for the many evil deeds he did. His hands are dripping with the blood of the thousands of people he put to death, including children.
So I see absolutely no reason whatsoever to move him.
I read that he changed the law to include boiling alive as a means of execution. The victim was to be lowered into boiling oil or water slowly feet first. Sounds like something thought up in hell.
This old man hurt so many people
Absolute power that absolutely ruined his character.
Let him rot where he is it's far to good for him what a appalling wretch of a human being he really was.
Quite telling that this Tudor king has been left in a vault among his enemies, in a broken coffin, with a humble inscription, for all these centuries and there’s been no desire to move him; and yet just a few years ago, the newly discovered remains of the last Plantagenet king, a sworn enemy of the Tudors, was buried in a magnificent tomb which is meticulously maintained for posterity.
museums need to make money somehow
If Henry had known how his remains would eventually end up, heads would have rolled.
@@ozzierabbit587 Same with Oliver Cromwell… they dug him up and posthumously beheaded him, displaying his head on a spike over London Bridge where it stayed for about 20 years before getting blown off in a storm.
That’s a man who left a mark. The guy is still infamous nearly 500 years on. I watched a video tour of all these Tudor sites. The guide put Henry VIII in a perfect way. He said think of King Henry like you would Elvis Presley. There was a time when he was young and handsome. Charming, athletic, all that jazz. And as he aged he got heavier and meaner and had all kinds of problems of all sorts. And that’s how a lot of the world has viewed him all these centuries later. He had at least two severe head injuries. That awful leg injury. Which I really believe is what brought on the weight gain and everything that comes with that. I really liked that show The Tudors (2001-10) on Showtime. Yeah it’s a goofy “based on true events” tv series. But having Jonathan Rhys Meyers play Henry was an awesome direction to take the character. There are countless tv adaptations of him as a big burly obese tyrant. And of course the Meyers character was that and more. But he is portrayed in his younger days early on. They sped it up as the show was ending but the vast majority of it was his first three marriages. And within maybe ten episodes, a season, and huge time leaps in the final 2-3 episodes, they wrapped it up. Pretty neat adaptation I thought.
I don't think a man who was only King for two years warrants the tomb or placement of it.
Oh good grief people, there is nothing wrong with being curious about what a few hundred years does to an overweight dictator thrown into a vault
Let us not forget that Charles I and Queen Anne's baby are descended from Henry VIII's elder sister Queen Margaret (née Tudor) of Scotland.
Why do you keep writing Henry Vll when it is obviously Henry Vlll?
All he ever wanted was a male heir not daughters. But Queen Elizabeth the first was a great queen.
Okay. Get it. I agree that King Richard III deserved a reburial.
If you’re expecting to see the coffin being opened……… don’t bother to watch this video.
Divorced Beheaded and Died, Divorced Beheaded Survived
Im Henry the VIII I had 6 sorry wives
Some may say i ruined their lives!
Oh oh. Now that song is in my head! Love it!
Though he desired a male heir, ironically it is his daughter who became one of England's most significant monarchs.
So, nobody really liked him much, including his children. Wonder why?
So easy to curse and damn Henry .Kings of Europe did the same if not worse. Try to remember they were very different days then
Absolutely.
King Leopard was the worst
@@ieshjust16 King Leopold II? I think I've heard of his story before
All kings were spoiled pieces of shit
So no opening a coffin? Clickbait
They can still talk next to each other and think what mistakes they made. Rest in peace both of you guys
He was riddled with syphalis and passed it on to his wives, that's why his children died and 1 had no genitalia little known fact
That one was a miscarried premie.
Harry (Duke of Sussex) looks exactly like Henry VIII ‼️🥵
Too bad he’s ruled by a wife!
Horrid human he was. Got off on killing everything and anything 😑
Whilst I don’t agree in my modern mind how he treated his family but, it was a different time back then. Plus we now know the head injury he suffered while “falling of his horse” as you put it would be classed as a severe brain injury in todays terms and personality changing. I’m afraid he was the product of his time. Whilst not everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet in as far as opinions. But I think he was under a lots of pressure and other influences. We will never truly know if his head injury allowed him to make the decision that were made or just the ramblings of a sick mind in the wings coaching him. Either way all very sad for him, his wife’s & children and the country.
Henry was a tyrant , but back in his time that was the way of life for people in his position. We need to remember Henry and people like him are primitive to us now, having said that we’d also be naive to think there aren’t people like him in power now
Henry was under massive pressure to have a son that lived to adulthood and couldn’t , plus he did in my opinion suffer from mental illness etc since his accident, and his other health issues etc. he wasn’t fit to be a monarch in middle age onwards, but noone would dare to tell him that.
A lot of the people around him weren’t great people either,
When you read the accounts and opinions of him as a younger person he was a peaceful, loving, sensitive and intelligent young man. But his personality changed drastically in the second half of his life, to the monster people refer to , was this due to his ill health, mental health, apparently so. But who knows. If he was a celebrity royal now he’d have documentaries made about him and books out etc , just like Harry.
@@nez9751 kinda what I meant 😉👍🏻
@@Jay-Leigh yep I know
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How was the Horse after the 'Accident' ???
@@peadarocoileain902 I would imagine fine. After all it was a royal horse having top care. Plus I would think it kept running for a bit and stopped. No idea 😕
He was a broken man that needed a man called Jesus Christ.
Jesus never existed
I’ll be praying for you and by the way Jesus Christ loves you
He was a very religious God fearing man. He HAD Jesus.
A person that is God fearing doesn’t not hurt people the way he did.
@@marycruet6577lots of God fearing people hurt others especially if they believe it is in the name of God. Henry VIII was willing to change his entire country's religion to bend life to his will- he wasn't allowed a divorce from his first wife as a Catholic so he wiped his hands of it. The person that Jesus seems to be has little to do with the massive movement that religion has proved to be- one that can alter governments and entire political movements. To say "he needed Jesus" is to expect a personal relationship in my opinion rather than what masquerades as a religion nowadays.
Leave em alone man
I think it's sooo disrespectful to disturb their final resting space
Posthumous honors or desecrations have no effect on their target
I always wanted to know what's inside the casket after 500 years.😮
Unfortunately some historical errors. Charles 1 was beheaded by a soldier not a professional executioner. Henry 8 fell ill in late 1546 and died in 1547. Charles 1 was executed in 1649 not 1648. ( This maybe due to the change in calendar ). Correct me if I'm wrong.
Henry was hell bent on leaving a male heir, he went to great and sometimes harsh lengths to make this happen. A need to secure the throne was the overriding factor in all his marriages, even today this need for male heirs in Royal families still exists….although not resorting to killing off the unproductive wives. I don’t believe Henry was a truly cruel man, he just put the security of the throne above everything and did anything he could to make this happen. Fortunately his daughter Elizabeth 1 proved a good Queen , but never married.
I don't think he was evil. I think he had brain damage. Not as severe as Phineas Gage, but enough where it severally altered his personality. It doesn't make him likeable or excuse his deeds, but it explains the lengths he went to.
Can't blame her
I believe due to the times not having a male heir was a slam to a man’s manhood. He being a narcissist king found reasons to explain that away that didn’t involve him. It was the wives fault. People didn’t understand back then how things worked and superstitions were plenty. People who may not have liked the wives were whispering in his ear. A lot of things happened back then in that time period that we look at as impossible, but for the times it was or could be any day behavior.
He killed among a great many others that great man Thomas more.for that alone he was a terrible king.i think in the beginning he had good intentions but he was spoiled self centered immature and insecure
Given the war of the roses, the throne under tumor rule was still at risk. Which is why he was so intent on leaving an heir. But in the history of England, he is FAR from one of the cruellest or most evil.
Henry the Eighth when he was a child was a spoilt selfish brat and he was not a good King as a adult .
Henry VIII was a dark, greasy stain on the monarchy of England.
I coulda gone without hearing about his gaseous remains exploding and dogs licking it up, can I get a second on that?
Her history isn't even remotely remarkable..
It's a good thing King Henry and Charles were buried along each sides, because they both shared a lot in common
No details as to what Henry looked like centuries later.
A Skeleton,ashes to ashes dust to dust..
So, the video makes no mention of what was found when Henry VIII's coffin was opened nor does it present any photos of the event. Was this omission by design or just something that was overlooked ?
I hate wasting my time looking at vids that have nothing to do with the title of the vid. Why do you do that?
It's strongly thought that he suffered a brain injury in that jousting incident. His personality drastically changed, and the weight gain is also connected. He became a horrible man and should never have been allowed to do the things he did.
One you are placing modern values on a Society leaving the Medieval Period. All Kings in Europe were tyrants. Even the most enlightened. They had few they could trust. Henry had More and Archbishop Fisher, both of whom he executed as they would not leave Roman Catholicism. After he was injured in a jousting accident and was knocked out for 2 hours he became unstable, a Severe TBI. He was unstable and dangerous and cruel, it was treason to tell any king's day of death or that they were unfit to rule.
In hindsight Maybe he shouldn't have risked his health jousting...my comment may sound inappropriate but he was a living tragedy after the accident
Is it just me, or is the closed caption frequently referring to Henry the VII, when we are talking about Henry VIII?
No coffin was opened in this clip.
‘Charles 1 was one of the most brutal kings of England’. Really? How where what?
This channel has a nasty habit of being very anti-Catholic when talking about Catholic monarchs, I’m not shocked it was Charles and not Henry or Elizabeth I that was called a barbaric tyrant
@@macgyversmacbook1861 You again!
Charles was Protestant his wife was Catholic and most of the anti-Catholic rhetoric levelled against Charles was through his wife and almost all of it false, Charles wasn't barbaric per se but he was a arrogant and short tempered and his unwillingness to change or compromise started the civil war which resulted in the deaths of over 200k people directly and indirectly which is a staggering amount when you remember that the population was around 5M at the time. Barbaric is probably the wrong word to use but his arrogance was costly in blood, a hell of a lot more than blood than Henry VIII ever spilled.
He was a horrible person.
The overweight king's body exploded both before and after he was interred. According to this video the first time the body blew up liquid spilled out from the casket and was licked up by dogs!!!! Horrifying indeed!!
Under that slab is like the spot where they throw the body’s of cruel and spiteful kings that nobody liked
I would imagine that there is absolutely nothing left of Henry the 8th. He's probably complete dust by now.... If mummification hasn't happened.
Misleading. It’s not about opening his coffin but the vault
H the 8th is talked about and well known. That's better than a magnificent tomb. his body fluids were licked
by dogs. Remembered and condemned.
There you can get how much secretly elizabeth I hated his father. She slapped and avenged Henry burying with enemy finishing his blood and not compeleting his grand burial sote 😂😂😂
Cruel, they pretty much had not choice. Look at Putin and Xi's behaviour. "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown" Paraphrased from a line from the play King Henry the Fourth, Part Two, by William Shakespeare
People are safer with this guy gone...he was Dangerous
Fascinating. I love history. Henry is resting exactly where he deserves to be.
He dereserves to be in hell
Absolute poetic justice that the loyal wife this monster dumped for his mistress has a more majestic tomb than he does
Great work Karl! I don't know if replacing Simon is temporary or not, but you're growing on me fast. Sure, Simon is a treasure, and I hope whatever he is doing is good for him and his career.
In earlier videos, I thought about leaving a comment asking you to slightly slow down & and articulate a bit more clearly, but you seem to be doing that already. You're hitting your stride and developing a great persona.
Looking forward to seeing you in the future.
The usual trick for raising views without showing anything.. 👎
King Charles I, often maligned by those who misunderstand him, was not "brutal and evil" - he made some political miscalculation but was an honourable and decent man who loved his family and his people.
No -leave him there….
Rebury him in a Potter's Field because he does not deserve Royal recognition.
@@ninavongunten122The ornate monument with altar where a daily requium Mass would be offered for the repose of his soul never was built. Neither was cardinal Wolsey's tomb ever built in that same chapel as was planned by him.
What a message to politicians.......even big shots are forgotten !!!
What body after 500 years 😂
Just bones and a bit of his beard still on his chin bone.
That is what I read in another documentary.
No grave is safe now..pillaging.
Thumbs down within 10 seconds. I'm not comfortable about the way people like this dismiss historic people as "barbarians"
They are a product of their time, as are we. I'm sure they could have said a lot worse about us, than we can about them!
Why were certain organs separated from the body to be placed in lead vessels? This almost sounds like what the ancient Egyptians did to their dead.
They were put in lead vessels because the lead preserves organic materials, back then they believed the heart to be where the soul was so it was an important organ spiritually. Back then if a knight etc died overseas/out of county the body couldn’t be brought back for burial because of decay and how long it was to travel back then, so in a lot of cases their heart (soul) was brought home in a lead vessel to preserve it so it could be returned to loved ones and be buried.
When a monarch dies their body lies in state for a few days-weeks for their subjects to see their body, shortly after a monarch dies their body is embalmed and (in the case of the Tudor times) eviscerated and disembowelled and stuffed with herbs and spices, this was to stop decay and smells while they were lying in state. They also used lead in the coffins to prevent decay, the late Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was lined with lead for this reason to keep her remains intact for up to a year.
The process is similar in a way to Egyptian practices however not for the same religious and spiritual beliefs and was only really used for royalty or wealthy people and they weren’t embalmed the same way as Egyptians or made into mummies lol
Good video. What a waste of space that man was - with or without the jousting injury! If only Arthur had lived!?! 🤔
Good question, if only..........
What if Napoleon had prevailed in Russia..... would the battle of Waterloo been fought? Would there have been a Soviet state? Would Japan developed the desire to be a super power? Would we have MAD weaponry?
I've recently heard a hypothesis that if Henry V111 hadn't disassociate the English Church from Rome the British island mentality of separation from Europe would not have given rise to BREXIT.
Good riddance to him. His disgusting actions blighted and darkened British history for hundreds of years following his gaseous, explosive departure.
He was definitely disturbed 😮😅
I hate it when they say opening the coffin of the king, because by the time they got down to it, the coffin was already jacked.. so no one really opened it
What is American who hated king King Henry the eighth
It's amazing to think he is known for being married 6 times and beheading his wife's when actually 2 were divorced, 1 died, 2 beheaded and 1 outlived him.
When I was in school in the early 70s we learned "One he Divorced, one he executed, one died, another beheaded and one Survived him"
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Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
@@maureendavidson4635 yes, our teacher did it a bit different. I learned that in college thanks for the reminder. I went to College in the Commonwealth of Virginia where I was born
Well he did say he wanted to be buried with Jane.
No music? Not even a jingle? Keep those op costs down.
16 people needed to carry one coffin? Damn.
I feel for the wives that had to sleep with gat smelly man than him blaming them for not having boys back in the day they thought the woman genetics decided the sex of the kid when it's the guys DNA that does. I don't believe it was a glamour's back then as well think it was plus the fact the movies glamourize it to much.
Be careful how you treat other's because it will be done unto you.
Did anyone see the opening of the coffin? Click bait bs.
Why wasn't he buried with his grandparents Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville?
His parents
A nice guy until a brain concussion turned him into a monster.
When I’m forced to ponder Henry VII and his ilk I am relieved to remind myself it was a chronically insecure grandfather and three infertile grandchildren, punctuated by that unfettered narcissistic megalomaniac in between.
Everyone that bashes Henry for being an arsehole really has no grip on how bad the planets monarchy was before his arrival.
If he hadn't have been married 6 times, no one would even be talking about him all these centuries later.
I love how the likes of Cleopatra get labelled as "great, strong and independent" while completely ignoring the fact she poisoned her brother after insisting on marrying him just to have a child by him to secure the throne.
I could go on and on....
I suppose we're all OK with Kings AND Queens murdering people as long as you're not married to them 🙄
Not true. His dissolution of the monasteries and the cultural vandalism that followed, which would shame even the Vandals, would have made him important enough to remember.
I wonder if even his bones are left? If so a computer scan into 3d and then having a forensic artist rebuild would be great. Henry would love that people see him anew is my guess.
Did he really explode?
Your status and money mean nothing in the end.
There was so much more to Henry. Besides his athletic
energetic goo
So where is this footage? was this a clickbait title?
The dog story was invented hundreds of years later. Henry 8th was no worse than any other king really.
Let us not forget that Charles I and Queen Anne's baby are descended from Henry VIII's elder sister Queen Margaret (née Tudor) of Scotland.
King Henry VIII, what a legend
Even in death, we are all equal (and kinda gross!)
Not bad...but could have been better.
For example, Charles 1 is one of England's most divisive monarchs but is well admired and loved..far more than Henry 8. Indeed to the Anglican community Charles is a martyr saint. The opinion of "shocking" and unhistorical notion that Charles threw his country into bloody civil war...as if it was just the king's fault is invalid and of little historical scholarship.
In future videos perhaps a more singular idea of what the video is about IE here the burial of the tyrant that was Henry 8 rather than tangent misrepresentations of historical characters such as Charles would be more correct.
my great granddad 16 times removed watched his beheading on Whitehall he was from Whitechapel and he was a pickpocket /theif he himself met a grizzly end 3 years later for thievery he was only 26 it was brutal back then he also sired 12 children 5 died stillborn people today live somewhat different lives for sure
Agreed.