Nothing about a individual but learning about how bad the defects got with trying to keep the blood pure. Absolutely insane and these barely held together peeps ran empires.
One of the scandalous thing I ever heard about one of the current Kings in my country is one of them is addicted to ICE (some sort of drug) and he had to go to rehab and there he met a Russian woman and fell in love, got married secretly (we found out about it eventually), she got pregnant, and then he divorced her (when she was still pregnant) lol
@@andresramirez8948 I'm cracking up at the text "u up??" he'd totally do that too if they had texting then 🤣 he'd find his next wife on match.com or MonarchSingles.com
Henry's out of control temper only came on after his horse fell on him during a jousting accident, after which he was unconscious for a number of hours. So, he had a pretty bad head injury. Its not uncommon for people's personality to change drastically after such a head injury. His weight only increased after said accident.
He also had a poor diet...too much meat and not enough vegetables and fruits, and he also had that wound on his leg that would not heal. And he smelled so bad that people who were not even near him could smell him as he approached. This link is to the video about his health. They did a whole forensic examination of what information could be gathered from records contemporary to his time: th-cam.com/video/3ofdjTzZRm8/w-d-xo.html
He also had a leg wound that never healed, add the bloodletting just about every day to alleviate the infection in the nauseatingly gaseous, toxic and nauseatingly smelling wound meant he couldn't work out or play tennis anymore like he used to. His leg wound and bloodletting gave him 24/7 chronic pain to boot. But one thing that never changed was his big appetite. He loved food. add that to his traumatic brain injury and his forever love of food and bammm. He's toast.
Diabetes, two traumatic head injuries, an infected and possibly gangrenous leg wound and a shitty diet do bad things to a person in addition to running a country and struggling to produce a male heir
they bloody well are, the reasons for execution are barbaric in nature, so they are murders indirectly caused for his whole spiel that we need king not queen thing, also by the fact he technically cheated on catherine but other european monarchs also did that a lot.
Woop Woop what else would you call what he did to those innocent people his own wife included I understand having to defend your own life or country Henry went beyond that if he did not like you he would kill you or if he got bored or angry with a wife he would chop her head off look what he did to Catherine Howard not only murders her but he has someone pour a chemical all over her body to make it dissolve as if she never existed
Imagine a timeline where Henry's brother lives to become king and Henry goes on to become a bishop and either doesn't marry at all or gets kicked out for trying to
@@blugaledoh2669 in those days, the firstborn son was heir to the throne, and any following sons either went into the military or the clergy. Henry VII intended his second son to become a priest, but Arthur's premature death gave us the psychopath known as Henry VIII
The term "eavesdropping" came from Henry XIII court. He placed statues hanging on the eaves of his great hall as a way of letting people know that he had ears everywhere. The people started calling them eavesdroppers.
@@nuerodol1147 yes. and they actually had tubes running from the open mouths to the other side of the wall and were used to listen to people who were not aware
One of my ancestors was a Godson of Queen Elizabeth 1. I'm an American, but many of my ancestors are from England and Scotland. Henry probably has ancestors all around the globe at this point.
In Henry's life he suffered two serious head injuries. Some historians, doctors and scientist believe that Henry may have suffered 1 to 2 traumatic brain injuries when he was younger that resulted in his personality change as records showed that he was more even tempered when he was young (based on records) before said injuries and some of the traits he had aline with some of the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury; such as poor memory, bouts of anger, lack of impulse control, impotency and etc.
@@Kerosene.Dreams I blame the gout more on his poor diet as he ate heavy portions of meat or fats and hardly ever touched his vegtables as he saw them as peasant food.
MASC I have heard different evidence and besides he was mean to his first wife and Daughter at the end of their first marriage way before his accident he beheaded Anne because she would not put up with his new apparent affair with Jane Seymour
Henry was very atheletic in his day . Tne accident left him with a head injury and his leg was permanently damaged . After that he was never the same . His health suffered and he became the huge gross man he was famous for
for a guy who loved animals he really was cruel to those horses they had to carry that tub of lard around...... would I get beheaded for saying that during his day ? hmmm : /
No mention of the significant jousting accident that led to a never-healed leg wound, a hard knock to the head, his obesity, and mercurial temperament?
That’s exactly what I was thinking. The claim that Henry has syphilius is common, but the genetic anger issue argument is news to me. Not sure how that could be substantiated, but Henry’s jousting days certainly took a toll on him, especially his leg, which was constantly painful and had to be drained on occasion. And constant pain would certainly have put him on a short fuse.
Agree. He was unconscious for several hours after that accident, long enough for the entire court to fear he was gonna die. He eventually woke up but that says to me, he had a major concussion or brain injury. AND yes, add to that the leg injury that never fully healed and actually kind of rotted thanks to the quack "medicine" they practiced at that time. His "doctors" kept picking at the wound and opening it and draining it etc etc. so much so that it never healed (I know, gross!) So yeah, guy wasn't only brain damaged but was in constant pain and probably rendered immobile and disabled to a certain extent after that. Historians now think that's what explains the change in his personality & temperament, and the paranoia, erratic judgment & horrible decision-making that he eventually became known for. Apparently before that, he was actually a nice, jovial, healthy guy that everyone liked especially the women. So yeah, too bad!
Good point. No modern medicine. No modern diagnosis, antibiotics, or surgery. What would it be like (back then) to survive a wound that never healed properly? Especially if surrounded by shady people, pushing shady advice?
2:59 Henry VIII's mental illness was very different from Charles VI of France and George III of Great Britain's mental illness so while interesting probably isn't true. The brain injury he got in his 1536 jousting match is more likely to be the root cause as there's a shift in Henry VIII's behavior from the accident as he became increasingly cruel and angry afterward. Henry was also said to be unconscious for a really long time after the accident which further supports the idea Henry had brain damage. I don't really know whether or not syphilis played a part though. 7:43 Elizabeth I died in 1603, not 1601
There was a known treatment for venereal disease at the time and Henry wasn't given it, though other kings were, so syphilis probably wasn't the cause of his problems.
It absolutely applies to Henry VIII though 😂 Thomas More was one of his best friends and one of the closest people to him and Henry still beheaded him because of Anne Boleyn and religion.
@@votewaldo9876 She also killed 20.000 Catholics, including Irish woman and children. I would suggest Victoria as their best monarch, she ruled over 25% of the world and help grant Catholics their freedom back.
@@herodotus945 By the time Victoria Came to power UK was an established constitutional monarchy. in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. You can't possibly compare Elizabeth to Victoria, a puppet monarch.
It's true that Henry broke away from the Pope and Rome, but he still considered himself a Catholic. The Protestant reformation came about during his son Edward VI and later re-established under Elizabeth I. Queen Mary aligned herself to Rome during her reign, but when Elizabeth I became queen, she again broke with Rome and re-established the Anglican Church.
@@mikesaunders4775 yes! Wish more ppl understood this! I'm a Protestant but they both considered themselves faithful Roman Catholics to their dying days!
The main reason Henry gained so much weight was an injury apparently. Some people think the reason he was so unstable was due to a head injury he got from falling off his horse. His 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, was pregnant at the time and ended up losing the baby from stress while he was in a coma. The baby would have been his heir and history might have been a lot different
The Other Boelyn Girl was a great movie! It got me interested in researching the Tudors and learning more about England's history. If it draws people into the story behind the history then it's done its job. I guess I'm one of the 5.☺
She did not slept with her brother. He could not carry it out. Spies everywhere who ratted that her brother came to her room..Geesh..I read the book and seen the movie (twice). Really, who knows what really happened. All told lies, even her own father and uncle.Her mother was the one who had the money and prestige.Her father was a nobody trying to move up the ranks to be part of the kings line of somebody's..He failed. Got his own children killed trying to be somebody.
@Batman The Dark Knight So now you're keeping up the streets of Gotham safe _and_ patrolling TH-cam comments for grammatical errors. Do you ever sleep? 🙃
One of the things about his being hoisted onto a horse Henry also had a bad leg. It was badly injured during a tournament, I think it was the same one where he got his severe head injury, all of which essentially crippled him so there was more than just his weight keeping him from mounting a horse.
The Showtime series ‘The Tudors’ is my all time favorite Henry V111 rendition showing most of his entire rein from his first wife Kathryn to his death... If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it... (Just a warning there is a lot of sex going on throughout the series)
From a wide array of research over the years, I find that Henry the 8th at first was a Man's Man that was very athletic and charming until some accidents came to define him in his later years. During his Jousting matches this one opponent managed to lance his spear into Henry's visor where a splinter of wood made its way into his eye and beyond making the King adopt a hellish mean streak that he would carry throughout the rest of his life. He changed the religious norm in England to protestant to pass a law of divorce to serve him in order to kill a few of his wives and marry others finally when an infection in his leg left him in agonizing pain and meaner than ever, it did not heal and he died as a result. I believe that if Henry had not suffered these injuries, he may have been a fine King to his court and England as a whole.
He did not start to “chunk up” after 40. He was still incredibly athletic at the age of 45, at which point he had a big jousting accident. If you can’t get that right, how are we to trust anything you profess?
@@silvergust Well that depends, do you want fiction, or history? There are numerous first hand accounts of Henry’s health status and weight problems. No we weren’t there, but by collating sources we can have a pretty accurate idea of how things were. To get something like this wrong shows that this channel cannot be trusted. If they got that so wrong, why should we believe anything they say? We may as well be listening to fiction. If you can’t understand why that is a problem, then why are you even interested in history? Just go and read fiction instead. You must be awfully sensitive to get so upset by my comment.
Such a treat to watch these videos. History lessons were never this funny, interesting and factual all at the same time! 😄👍 Keep up the good work teamWeird History! 👍👍
Fun fact: through his father Henry VII,he had links to Henry V. After Henry V died his wife Catherine of Valois married a man named Owain Tudor. One of their sons married Margaret of Beaufort and they had Henry Tudor who became Henry VII.
You forgot his beard tax in, I believe, 1535, which his daughter, apparently, reinstated after his death. That's why I listened to this, as I was wondering what you had to say about it.
Most current historians of the Tudor Era no longer suggest STDs or traditional mental illness as the cause of Henry's instability. He seemed fairly stable until a jousting match in which he was unconscious for an extended period of time and was, initially, thought to be dead. He clearly suffered a concussion, if not an outright skull fracture. Today, it's thought he either suffered frontal lobe damage during the accident or suffered from some post concussion syndrome.
I spent a couple of semesters studying in England, we studied Henry the 8th era quite a bit. A good way to remember Henry’s wives; Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.
Whenever I see video titles like "Strange Facts That You Didn't Know About Henry VIII" I'm like, "Dude, I know 'em all" But thank you Weird History, for I actually didn't know the facts mentioned in your video. Great job!
That is definitely a lie. All people hunting changed horses regularly,they never rode them into the ground,horses were too important,particularly the war horse
@@michaeldiekmann6494 I guess you're right. The fact that prominent families encouraged that behavior for their children, no matter the consequences, is disgusting!
I haven’t seen the movie BUT “The Other Boleyn Girl” is one of my most favorite books in the entire world, I know it’s fictitious, but I just love the historical era it takes place in and idk I just think it’s a wonderful book!!
Henry more likely had damage to his frontal lobe than psychiatric problems. It is known that Henry was a kind and gentle king, up until the jousting accident that left him unconscious for 2 hours. He also had a horrible wound on his leg that would never heal (probably due to being a diabetic), and I’m sure that didn’t help his temper either.
@@babs66 We have better hygiene these days, though. Also there's kind of a difference between helping out a handicapped person who needs it and a spoiled 50 year old man who yells at anyone who looks at him funny.
It was actually a highly coveted job believe it or not lol you were alone with Henry. You could ask him for shit, give information, get information, the list goes on. It was one of the most coveted jobs of the court for centuries lol
@@WeirdHistory The first germ warfare was throwing dead people & animals over the walls of castles with that sling shot thingie. They would also put poop on their arrow heads, in Civil War days troops did the same on their bullets to help bring on deadly infections. It's a sad and terrifying fact that some ships in Peal Harbor had men trapped aboard with no way to communicate to the out side world stuck in their bunk areas, with no food of water and very limited air to breath. They were found playing cards, some in their bunks, and some were banging on the side of the ship hope for a rescue that never came. Of course for years that was covered up by the Brass. 😢😭
4:37 That just reminded me of that one scene in The Tudors- Anne: George! Give it back! George: Aw! Look! He even drew a little heart between the A and the H!
2:56 Possessing unbridled power and little moral guidance/discipline will do that to a person. It's not necessarily mental illness. You'd just have to look at him the wrong way or make him feel disrespected or slighted and be sentenced to death, forever banished from his sight. He must have very little room for forgiveness in his heart. A small man.
What is your best or worst thing you've learned about a royal?
Learning how all that stuff in Braveheart about Robert The Bruce was complete bs. He was a good man and a good King.
I learned that Prince Andrew was involved with Jeffrey Epstein.
Nice Hermans hermits throw back lol!
Nothing about a individual but learning about how bad the defects got with trying to keep the blood pure. Absolutely insane and these barely held together peeps ran empires.
One of the scandalous thing I ever heard about one of the current Kings in my country is one of them is addicted to ICE (some sort of drug) and he had to go to rehab and there he met a Russian woman and fell in love, got married secretly (we found out about it eventually), she got pregnant, and then he divorced her (when she was still pregnant) lol
*Henry sees random girl on the street*
"I think she'll beheading my way 😏"
Oh. my. god. Stoooooooppp ittttt
Lol
Hellorhighwater88 thank you. I’ve had a bad day, can’t sleep because of pain, and yet you made me laugh out loud. Genuine lol.
Thank you
Oh hell noooo
My family is actually descended from one of his illegimate sons, Richard Edwardes. One of the coolest things I've found in my family tree
He was a murderous, batshit crazy monarch. He ain't much.
Andrew Edwards nice
My ancestor was a French translator for George Washington. That's the only thing exciting in my family tree
@Shaise Kindering My family is a decedent of Anne boleyns family. Not much.
Projectboy how is that not much. Anne Boleyn is like the most hated and liked figure!!! And you have a musical with her and a series?!?
Not to mention that smelly wound on his leg that never healed, probably due to diabetes.
Cindy Morose or gout the “kings disease”
Kate Dean I didn’t know so many of them died from gout. 😵
Kate Dean you can die from gout???
Regina George you could die from everything in 16th century England because they believed effective herbal medicine was sinful 💀
Cindy Morose sounds like peripheral vascular disease
“U up?” KILLED ME 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 just like poor Ann Boleyn.....🥴
TheBitch IsBack she is my ancestor no joke
Imagine if Henry had internet back then 😅
Andres Ramirez
OH GOD .
@@andresramirez8948 I'm cracking up at the text "u up??" he'd totally do that too if they had texting then 🤣 he'd find his next wife on match.com or MonarchSingles.com
@@BBK83 😂😂
Me: **knows a whole lot about Henry VIII**
Me: **reads title**
This guy has MORE weird shit?
Me a part of the SIX fandom : Yup . And it is just the beginning.
Lmao this comment made me laugh out loud
Henry VI: N=VIT
Henry's out of control temper only came on after his horse fell on him during a jousting accident, after which he was unconscious for a number of hours. So, he had a pretty bad head injury. Its not uncommon for people's personality to change drastically after such a head injury.
His weight only increased after said accident.
He also had a poor diet...too much meat and not enough vegetables and fruits, and he also had that wound on his leg that would not heal. And he smelled so bad that people who were not even near him could smell him as he approached.
This link is to the video about his health. They did a whole forensic examination of what information could be gathered from records contemporary to his time: th-cam.com/video/3ofdjTzZRm8/w-d-xo.html
He also had a leg wound that never healed, add the bloodletting just about every day to alleviate the infection in the nauseatingly gaseous, toxic and nauseatingly smelling wound meant he couldn't work out or play tennis anymore like he used to. His leg wound and bloodletting gave him 24/7 chronic pain to boot. But one thing that never changed was his big appetite. He loved food. add that to his traumatic brain injury and his forever love of food and bammm. He's toast.
A much more plausible explanation.
Diabetes, two traumatic head injuries, an infected and possibly gangrenous leg wound and a shitty diet do bad things to a person in addition to running a country and struggling to produce a male heir
@@shesaknitter thank you for this link!
Divorced-beheaded-died-divorced-beheaded-survived. Easy trick to remember
Weird flex but okay.
glad thats inside my head instead of financial advice
Ethan Dull Yeah,that would never happen nowadays. Everyone’s too pc. 🙂
Good ol horrible histories
Jordan Dennis it’s how a lot of us were taught to remember his wives in school
I have fallen down this Henry the 8th hole after falling in love with “SIX”
Same
Yep. Thanks to Six I am also learning about King Henry and his wives.
Same
The tudors brought me here lol actually really enjoyed that show
Me too
🎵"Cut my wife into pieces, this is my last divorce..."🎵
Twelfth Lady
Ehehehehe!
Best comment.
😆
Sweet man
HEAR ME OUT:
A musical about Henry VIII but not in the perspective of his wives, but his poor horses.
I'm not a horse girl, I swear.
Chicken Nugget I don’t know why but I need this
flanders mare.
Horsix: the tudor musical coming to a theatre neigh you!
Only happy he didn't try to ride his dogs.
Henry: *exist*
Henry’s wives head: ight ima head out
What the hell did you just write?
Lmaooo basically 😂
🤣
@@ingriddubbel8468 Today in history th-cam.com/video/Bvq7jtEfAvw/w-d-xo.html
@@feisty_yet_spicy Today in history th-cam.com/video/Bvq7jtEfAvw/w-d-xo.html
Respect for his sisters who wasn’t taking crap from Henry
mary sue btw
ReyTheJediLady ViaJakku respect for his sisters who WEREN'T taking crap......
They were as bloody as him the whole royale family are and were evils bloody , they killed lil girls just cus they believed in nonsense
Henry Fitzroy low-key wearing Gucci headwear back in the day 😂
I love how he refers to Henry’s executions as murders
they bloody well are, the reasons for execution are barbaric in nature, so they are murders indirectly caused for his whole spiel that we need king not queen thing, also by the fact he technically cheated on catherine but other european monarchs also did that a lot.
Especially when he could've simply banned papaya from his household
Woop Woop what else would you call what he did to those innocent people his own wife included I understand having to defend your own life or country Henry went beyond that if he did not like you he would kill you or if he got bored or angry with a wife he would chop her head off look what he did to Catherine Howard not only murders her but he has someone pour a chemical all over her body to make it dissolve as if she never existed
As they should be referred to.
As he should because that's what it was. So tragic.
The narration is hilarious 😂 your description of Henry’s “ poetry” is like a parent trying to relate to a teen 🤣
Why is nobody talking about his eyebrows though like they are almost nonexistent
No they are normal size. His incredible mass makes them appear small.
@Johnny Morphine He look like beyonce.
@@Spazzycat14 holy shit i can see it now
@@aegon8691 Yeah. Look at that dude. Look into his marshmellow goodness.
Ironically enough having no eyebrows became attractive a few decades later
I thought his most important achievement was producing Elizabeth.
Leia Jiang I mean no he made her illegitimate when he beheaded Anne B
@@dennis2001ish right but made her regardless. I just remember him as the fat ass that killed his wives a bunch and ate a lot.
NO!
I totally agree
His most important achievement was cutting ties with the catholic church.
Imagine a timeline where Henry's brother lives to become king and Henry goes on to become a bishop and either doesn't marry at all or gets kicked out for trying to
Honestly Henry would never be able to become a bishop. BUT *POPE HENRY* t h o
Why will he become a bishop?
@@blugaledoh2669 He had an older brother that would have inherited the throne but died young. Henry was in training to be in the clergy.
@@clintdavis9511 He won't last I believe. But maybe I am underestimating him.
@@blugaledoh2669 in those days, the firstborn son was heir to the throne, and any following sons either went into the military or the clergy. Henry VII intended his second son to become a priest, but Arthur's premature death gave us the psychopath known as Henry VIII
The term "eavesdropping" came from Henry XIII court. He placed statues hanging on the eaves of his great hall as a way of letting people know that he had ears everywhere. The people started calling them eavesdroppers.
really?
@@nuerodol1147 I think they're still there. Creepy little things.
Who is Henry XIII? You mean Henry VIII?
@@Hilz28 I think it's pretty obviously a typo.
@@nuerodol1147 yes. and they actually had tubes running from the open mouths to the other side of the wall and were used to listen to people who were not aware
i beg of you, please stop calling him your “big beefy boy”
Alec Dixon I just call him an ahole
homosixual a valid choice
I enjoy calling him "Fat ugly horse-crushing old gross man."
No.
LMFAO
Henry probably has descendants out here somewhere through his siblings and illegitimate children he did not claim
All of the Henrys are in my lineage
He's in my family tree too but way distant lol 😂😭💀
@@rere2425 sup cousin lol, like 9000th cousin
@@RAZERDsXe 🤗🤗🤗
One of my ancestors was a Godson of Queen Elizabeth 1. I'm an American, but many of my ancestors are from England and Scotland. Henry probably has ancestors all around the globe at this point.
“Henry Henry Henry, had so many, wives that had to diiiieeeee”
I catch myself randomly singing that song since High School 😂
Mittens xo it’s my jam 🤣
6 wives!!!!! IN AAAAALLLL!! Oh the things they could do. If they hadn't married Henry that was their downfall!!!
This has been stuck in my head for almost a week and I'm not mad yet
Those poor horses 🥺
Bet he smelt worse than the horses
Omg I literally said...that poor horse to myself and then saw this lmbo😂😂😂
im your 300th like
Those poor wives
The dogs only ate bread
Henry: “I think I’ll fancy a ride, you there, go fetch me my steed!!!“
Henry’s horse: FUCK!!!!
🤣🤣🤣
In Henry's life he suffered two serious head injuries. Some historians, doctors and scientist believe that Henry may have suffered 1 to 2 traumatic brain injuries when he was younger that resulted in his personality change as records showed that he was more even tempered when he was young (based on records) before said injuries and some of the traits he had aline with some of the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury; such as poor memory, bouts of anger, lack of impulse control, impotency and etc.
And gout.
@@Kerosene.Dreams I blame the gout more on his poor diet as he ate heavy portions of meat or fats and hardly ever touched his vegtables as he saw them as peasant food.
@@masc6287 As one does.
MASC I have heard different evidence and besides he was mean to his first wife and Daughter at the end of their first marriage way before his accident he beheaded Anne because she would not put up with his new apparent affair with Jane Seymour
Henry was very atheletic in his day . Tne accident left him with a head injury and his leg was permanently damaged . After that he was never the same . His health suffered and he became the huge gross man he was famous for
a head injur ydoes not make you an evil murderer
@@aprilgosa5779 a traumatic head injury can give a person brain damage. It can dramatically alter a person's personality.
Why the fuck was King Henry VIII so fat if his dad, King Henry VII was very skinny his entire life? 👑💍🎭🩰🎨
Before we dive
*head first*
😂😂😂😂
Hahahahahaa Dad Pun pulled
Lmaooo 😂
Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard have joined the chat .
Well.
for a guy who loved animals he really was cruel to those horses they had to carry that tub of lard around...... would I get beheaded for saying that during his day ? hmmm : /
Absolutely, and keep in mind it took several blows from an axe to remove the head, not like the movies
@@Iwishtheirwasnopain ohhhh shit : X
Not to forget he forced his poor dogs to be vegetarian. That's animal cruelty.
@@Iwishtheirwasnopain not true if its sharp enough
@@Iwishtheirwasnopain ... Whelp i learned something new
Fun fact: Henry VIII had a talented singing voice and was given his own group of musicians.
They went on Ye oldie X factor, but only made it to the judges houses
Why y'all hating on Henry's writing? That was fire asf.
He really talked to that lady like a real one would.
🤭
yeah
No mention of the significant jousting accident that led to a never-healed leg wound, a hard knock to the head, his obesity, and mercurial temperament?
Exactly. Thumb up for you.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. The claim that Henry has syphilius is common, but the genetic anger issue argument is news to me. Not sure how that could be substantiated, but Henry’s jousting days certainly took a toll on him, especially his leg, which was constantly painful and had to be drained on occasion. And constant pain would certainly have put him on a short fuse.
Agree. He was unconscious for several hours after that accident, long enough for the entire court to fear he was gonna die. He eventually woke up but that says to me, he had a major concussion or brain injury. AND yes, add to that the leg injury that never fully healed and actually kind of rotted thanks to the quack "medicine" they practiced at that time. His "doctors" kept picking at the wound and opening it and draining it etc etc. so much so that it never healed (I know, gross!) So yeah, guy wasn't only brain damaged but was in constant pain and probably rendered immobile and disabled to a certain extent after that. Historians now think that's what explains the change in his personality & temperament, and the paranoia, erratic judgment & horrible decision-making that he eventually became known for. Apparently before that, he was actually a nice, jovial, healthy guy that everyone liked especially the women. So yeah, too bad!
@@utubefreshie also diabetes aparently.
Good point. No modern medicine. No modern diagnosis, antibiotics, or surgery. What would it be like (back then) to survive a wound that never healed properly? Especially if surrounded by shady people, pushing shady advice?
Fun fact recorders were actually really important and impressive instrument that got pieces written by Beethoven
I bet that horse had his spine cracking like raw pasta.
I am mad because this doesn’t have more likes 👆🏻
2:59 Henry VIII's mental illness was very different from Charles VI of France and George III of Great Britain's mental illness so while interesting probably isn't true. The brain injury he got in his 1536 jousting match is more likely to be the root cause as there's a shift in Henry VIII's behavior from the accident as he became increasingly cruel and angry afterward. Henry was also said to be unconscious for a really long time after the accident which further supports the idea Henry had brain damage. I don't really know whether or not syphilis played a part though.
7:43 Elizabeth I died in 1603, not 1601
There was a known treatment for venereal disease at the time and Henry wasn't given it, though other kings were, so syphilis probably wasn't the cause of his problems.
“He wants to kiss her pritty ducky’s?”
“Wow, this guys loins are in FIRE”
Ah yes, someone with taste 💅
@@zyphiumedits5884 thx m8
Can't believe he was on cocaine nearly everyday during his last years
Cocaine was a common pain killer until like super recent history
@@candicehoneycutt4318 I mean, that's what I use it for!
@@candicehoneycutt4318 I know, but he was one of the first to use it just to get lit!
Johnny Morphine I don’t understand how it was used for medicine tf it help with
Had it been discovered then?
Never imagined I'd one day hear "bros before hos" in a documentary about Henry VIII.
It absolutely applies to Henry VIII though 😂 Thomas More was one of his best friends and one of the closest people to him and Henry still beheaded him because of Anne Boleyn and religion.
Erica McClure Well Moore betrayed him.
Probably a good thing his genes were never really passed to anyone. 👍 Yikes.
Mary, Elizabeth? Or do you mean like his family line wasn't carried since Mary and Elizabeth never gave birth?
He was actually quite fit during his early life
Elizabeth was the best monarch in English history. Solely responsible for the English golden era.
@@votewaldo9876 She also killed 20.000 Catholics, including Irish woman and children. I would suggest Victoria as their best monarch, she ruled over 25% of the world and help grant Catholics their freedom back.
@@herodotus945
By the time Victoria Came to power
UK was an established constitutional monarchy. in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power.
You can't possibly compare Elizabeth to Victoria, a puppet monarch.
Those poor horses man. You can serious injure a horses’ back if you’re too heavy.
Kate Dean there Carry limits top out around 500lb
"HENRY HELPED USHER IN AN ENGLISH HEALTH REVOLUTION"
Man, did I have to read that twice
He loved horses so much you could say he had a crush....them
Ouch!That's worthy of my bro in law!
Henry the 8 hundred pound
Doggo
@@panaddict3448, Why "Doggo"? Does that mean something in this context?
Alice Willoughby profile picture of the original commenter...
nice Dashie pfp. I dig it.
@@alicewilloughby4318 r/woosh
It's true that Henry broke away from the Pope and Rome, but he still considered himself a Catholic. The Protestant reformation came about during his son Edward VI and later re-established under Elizabeth I. Queen Mary aligned herself to Rome during her reign, but when Elizabeth I became queen, she again broke with Rome and re-established the Anglican Church.
Absolutely true,he considered himself a Catholic until the day he died. Oddly enough so did Martin Luther.
@@mikesaunders4775 yes! Wish more ppl understood this! I'm a Protestant but they both considered themselves faithful Roman Catholics to their dying days!
The main reason Henry gained so much weight was an injury apparently. Some people think the reason he was so unstable was due to a head injury he got from falling off his horse. His 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, was pregnant at the time and ended up losing the baby from stress while he was in a coma. The baby would have been his heir and history might have been a lot different
molly he was mean way before he fell off that horse ask hs first wife and daughter
Why the fuck was King Henry VIII so fat if his dad, King Henry VII was very skinny his entire life? 👑💍🎭🩰🎨
The real toxic relationship Henry viii had might be with his dear horses...👀
The Other Boelyn Girl was a great movie! It got me interested in researching the Tudors and learning more about England's history. If it draws people into the story behind the history then it's done its job. I guess I'm one of the 5.☺
The only issue I have with that movie is there's no evidence that Anne actually slept with her brother and that was very much part of that story
She did not slept with her brother. He could not carry it out. Spies everywhere who ratted that her brother came to her room..Geesh..I read the book and seen the movie (twice). Really, who knows what really happened. All told lies, even her own father and uncle.Her mother was the one who had the money and prestige.Her father was a nobody trying to move up the ranks to be part of the kings line of somebody's..He failed. Got his own children killed trying to be somebody.
The OtherBoleyn Girl attempted to rewrite history. Very inaccurate
"We hate to keep dunking on the guy."
Also, our pants are on fire.
_Heyyyy,_ I liked The Other Boleyn Girl.
Yeah me to
Me three
@Batman The Dark Knight So now you're keeping up the streets of Gotham safe _and_ patrolling TH-cam comments for grammatical errors. Do you ever sleep? 🙃
@@hshyan Well, we've found 3 of the 4 people who watched it :D
@@WeirdHistory Haha! 😁
"With Henry's generous stature, the horse could not fly, on the contrary it was sinking trough the terrain at an alarming rate".
Those who suffered most under Henry were his horses and women.
Suffered most fruit salad
I'd hate to be a dog & fed a strict diet of bread. He may have liked dogs, but he made sure they didn't live long or healthy.
One of the things about his being hoisted onto a horse Henry also had a bad leg. It was badly injured during a tournament, I think it was the same one where he got his severe head injury, all of which essentially crippled him so there was more than just his weight keeping him from mounting a horse.
Why the fuck was King Henry VIII so fat if his dad, King Henry VII was very skinny his entire life? 👑💍🎭🩰🎨
Nothing embarrassing about being lowered onto that poor horse than with tower crane.
I love this narrator's sense of humor. He didn't love his war horse enough to lose weight.
Why the fuck was King Henry VIII so fat if his dad, King Henry VII was very skinny his entire life? 👑💍🎭🩰🎨
"He was an animal lover"
"How do we know that his wives were good people ? Maybe he had reasons to kill them". -PETA.
So makes up for his two beheadings
I was a good person! I was *INNOCENT!* But I still got beheaded.
Who else is here because of SIX the Musical?
Who isn't?
me 👁️👄👁️
Actually-
Actually... *yes*
I- .... *Divorced*
The Scots had a joke " Your King is Majestic, ours are merely Graceful"
You guys missed out an important strange fact. Henry VIII actually wrestled with the French king.......and lost the match. 😂
The Showtime series ‘The Tudors’ is my all time favorite Henry V111 rendition showing most of his entire rein from his first wife Kathryn to his death...
If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it...
(Just a warning there is a lot of sex going on throughout the series)
They took it off Netflix :( If you know somewhere else to watch it I'd kill to know!!
Henry: *sucks at writing love letters*
Me: So that’s why Anne Boleyn played hard to get..
Compared to some pick up lines today, he was a pick up expert. Not to mention all the girls he had all over his.
Punkwrestle They were all over him because he was the king. Their families treated them like political pawns.
This channel never disappoints lol 👍🏼
Doggo man
Congrats on the heart
From a wide array of research over the years, I find that Henry the 8th at first was a Man's Man that was very athletic and charming until some accidents came to define him in his later years. During his Jousting matches this one opponent managed to lance his spear into Henry's visor where a splinter of wood made its way into his eye and beyond making the King adopt a hellish mean streak that he would carry throughout the rest of his life. He changed the religious norm in England to protestant to pass a law of divorce to serve him in order to kill a few of his wives and marry others finally when an infection in his leg left him in agonizing pain and meaner than ever, it did not heal and he died as a result. I believe that if Henry had not suffered these injuries, he may have been a fine King to his court and England as a whole.
My boy Henry was the way way way back in the day meatloaf 😂
He did not start to “chunk up” after 40. He was still incredibly athletic at the age of 45, at which point he had a big jousting accident. If you can’t get that right, how are we to trust anything you profess?
Seems like almost every video. Might unsubscribe. And I just subscribed a few vids back
@@msatxgault560 Ahhh I see, is this a common thing for this channel?
Not the best channel for 100% historical accuracy
You gotta be really sensitive to get that dramatic over a fact gotten wrong. None of us today were there 💀
@@silvergust Well that depends, do you want fiction, or history? There are numerous first hand accounts of Henry’s health status and weight problems. No we weren’t there, but by collating sources we can have a pretty accurate idea of how things were. To get something like this wrong shows that this channel cannot be trusted. If they got that so wrong, why should we believe anything they say? We may as well be listening to fiction. If you can’t understand why that is a problem, then why are you even interested in history? Just go and read fiction instead. You must be awfully sensitive to get so upset by my comment.
Such a treat to watch these videos. History lessons were never this funny, interesting and factual all at the same time! 😄👍
Keep up the good work teamWeird History! 👍👍
Big boy
Delicate fancy man
😂the narrator didn't leave out a single name that targets HENRY's physical appearance.
"gross sister brother marriage" lmao
The narrator really sounds like Grover Gardner one of my favourite audiobook narrators
I still say it's Stephen Colbert.
“But before we dive... uh, head first” 😂
Hahahaha the commentary just gets better and better, such sass! I love it! Thank you for making history fun AND interesting :D
A lot of schools aren’t in existence thanks to Henry, but more so thanks to Anne Boleyn.
Fun fact: through his father Henry VII,he had links to Henry V. After Henry V died his wife Catherine of Valois married a man named Owain Tudor. One of their sons married Margaret of Beaufort and they had Henry Tudor who became Henry VII.
Yep, Henry loved horses, enough that he made them carry his massive weight around on their backs 🤦
You forgot his beard tax in, I believe, 1535, which his daughter, apparently, reinstated after his death. That's why I listened to this, as I was wondering what you had to say about it.
Most current historians of the Tudor Era no longer suggest STDs or traditional mental illness as the cause of Henry's instability. He seemed fairly stable until a jousting match in which he was unconscious for an extended period of time and was, initially, thought to be dead. He clearly suffered a concussion, if not an outright skull fracture. Today, it's thought he either suffered frontal lobe damage during the accident or suffered from some post concussion syndrome.
Weird, I was just thinking about Henry the 8th last night while watching The King on Netflix... This video is well timed for me.
The government always watches
The King and the Six Wives. Sounds like a Grimm's fairy tale.
Close enough! ^^
I find it oddly sweet that he loved dogs so much. I imagine him taking photos of them with his iPhone if they had them back then.
“Facts you didn’t know about Henry VIII”
Me: try me
I spent a couple of semesters studying in England, we studied Henry the 8th era quite a bit. A good way to remember Henry’s wives; Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.
Despite what I tend to think of this guy, I can appreciate the musical talent and he wrote some good songs
Whenever I see video titles like "Strange Facts That You Didn't Know About Henry VIII" I'm like, "Dude, I know 'em all" But thank you Weird History, for I actually didn't know the facts mentioned in your video. Great job!
Henry the 8th talking to his last wife. During marriage counseling. Remember Ann Boleyn.
Doggo
Do you know how psychotic I sound laughing to myself with headphones in when you say, “Produced the real banger Green Sleeves.”
That's crazy, the wife that he beheaded and her sister are descendants, and not his that sit on the throne today?
Yeah, he loved his horses so much he rode some of them to death when out hunting for a whole day.......
That is definitely a lie. All people hunting changed horses regularly,they never rode them into the ground,horses were too important,particularly the war horse
He was lucky that any woman would've married him and yet he had 6 wives! 😏
Apparently he was very handsome and athletic as a young man, so Catherine of Aragon had his best years.
Power is a great aphrodisiac
Lucky? He was a king, Crystal. Best match your family could get you at those times.
For real.....women nowadays marrying fat pieces of shit for free! 🙄
@@michaeldiekmann6494 I guess you're right. The fact that prominent families encouraged that behavior for their children, no matter the consequences, is disgusting!
Elizabeth 11 is related to Henry V11 via Henrys VIII sister Margaret Tudor. Nothing to do with Mary Boleyn
Plantagenet1 she’s descended from Mary as well through her mother
Very true, someone needs to do some fact checking before they produce these videos.
So how is Elizabeth 2 decdended?
I haven’t seen the movie BUT “The Other Boleyn Girl” is one of my most favorite books in the entire world, I know it’s fictitious, but I just love the historical era it takes place in and idk I just think it’s a wonderful book!!
The book is great. The film howeverbthe first 30 min are not even in the book.
Anne Boleyn ain't black though
Henry more likely had damage to his frontal lobe than psychiatric problems. It is known that Henry was a kind and gentle king, up until the jousting accident that left him unconscious for 2 hours. He also had a horrible wound on his leg that would never heal (probably due to being a diabetic), and I’m sure that didn’t help his temper either.
I can’t imagine how someone would chose to dress him after using the bathroom... I can’t imagine how bad that would smell
Considering most of the jobs back then, honestly, its not as bad as you think in comparison... lol
It's only what care assistants do every day.
@@babs66 We have better hygiene these days, though. Also there's kind of a difference between helping out a handicapped person who needs it and a spoiled 50 year old man who yells at anyone who looks at him funny.
It was actually a highly coveted job believe it or not lol you were alone with Henry. You could ask him for shit, give information, get information, the list goes on. It was one of the most coveted jobs of the court for centuries lol
Great video 👍 but now wanna watch a video about an army of medieval attack dogs 😂 lol
We are researching it
@@WeirdHistory The first germ warfare was throwing dead people & animals over the walls of castles with that sling shot thingie.
They would also put poop on their arrow heads, in Civil War days troops did the same on their bullets to help bring on deadly infections.
It's a sad and terrifying fact that some ships in Peal Harbor had men trapped aboard with no way to communicate to the out side world stuck in their bunk areas, with no food of water and very limited air to breath.
They were found playing cards, some in their bunks, and some were banging on the side of the ship hope for a rescue that never came.
Of course for years that was covered up by the Brass. 😢😭
@@WeirdHistory awesome!! Cant wait to see that crazy mad video, best channel on youtube by far 🖒
@@WeirdHistory - I hope you do a better job researching than you did with this video.
@@MJ-cc4uf stop hating bruh
The way you elaborate historical facts is hilarious! I love it.
Anyone who loves the story of King Henry VIII NEEDS to watch The Tudors! It’s seriously one of my favorite shows 🖤
It's horrible. It's such a frustrating show. Terrible.
I SWEAR I was writing “everytime I think of Henry the 8th I think of that annoying song”.... as you said “second verse same as the first”. Haha
Henry VIII had a son from Jane Seymour called Edward VI.
Henry the VIII England' s very own Stalin!
Joe Hardy don’t be racist fatty
@@sidneyryan1291 how is that racist?
No that was Cromwell
@@FireurchinProductionsByzantiumAgreed, without a doubt the biggest dick to be born in this island.
You sitting up here, telling me that Henry the VIII weighted damn near 400 lbs😬
Damn and I barely weigh 100 on a good day
4:37
That just reminded me of that one scene in The Tudors-
Anne: George! Give it back!
George: Aw! Look! He even drew a little heart between the A and the H!
kk
2:56 Possessing unbridled power and little moral guidance/discipline will do that to a person. It's not necessarily mental illness. You'd just have to look at him the wrong way or make him feel disrespected or slighted and be sentenced to death, forever banished from his sight. He must have very little room for forgiveness in his heart. A small man.