Henry was a serial killer we hate Richard the third for the killings of the Princes in the tower what about all the other Kings and Queens who killed so many people
I read his doctors kept popping open the ulcers because they believed this would heal them. In fact, they should have left the sores alone. Back then though, medicine was still so primitive.
He had a head injury from a jousting accident. Look at some of the other posts. A frontal lobe injury can cause major personality changes. He also had a bone infection that never healed. The pain from that alone would make most of us angry
His son Edward and his daughter Mary turned out to be rather sickly creatures and did not live long, but Elizabeth I was an exeption, she lived to a respectable age.
I believe Mary suffered from kidney disease, which eventually took her life. I think her mother had the same thing. Edward got TB, if I remember correctly,
@@cvryder2000 Henry's illegitimate son died of TB, it was a common disease at the time. That son died at 17, Henry loved him and gave him many honours and titles. There was even talk of making him (Richmond) an heir to the throne before Edward was born.
@@cvryder2000 Edward did die of TB, but he'd also had the measles shortly before he became ill with his final health event. Historians think his immunity was very low after the measles, and the TB (which he already had) was able to flourish and kill him quickly.
Tyrant you say.He killed 80,000 of his opponents in his lifetime.Henry was the subject of a plot to kill him by poisoning his food,the supposed plotter Richard Rouse was drowned in a barrel of wine.Another of Henry's opponents was boiled alive in front of a massive crowd,many throwing up it was so horrible.He definitely was a tyrant a very paranoid and vicious one as most are.
A comment that reveals you know diddly about the possible psychological ramifications of his injuries. Modern medicine has theorized quite convincingly that Henry suffered a brain injuries that affected his personality.
Henry fell off his horse while jousting with Sir Henry Norris, his good friend, at Greenwich Palace. The horse fell ON Henry VIII, causing what's considered, _through historical accounts,_ a traumatic brain injury. He was unconscious for two hours, and the thought was he as going to die. Historic record, again. He suffered another head injury, losing consciousness for a brief time a year later, while pole-vaulting. Frontal lobe injuries can cause noticeable personality changes. Up to that point, Henry was good-natured and well-liked. This doesn't excuse his abuse of power. But it does explain why he really went off the rails.
@@lindsaywarden1746 he had done sick and cruel things before his injury and ill health. People keep making excuses for him. No doubt it made him worse, that i do believe but he had that evil streak to start with, anyone can check it out if they dont wanna believe it. It didnt just start when he was ill. No excuse as you said.
There was no postmortem of Henry VIII. The title of this video is misleading. There are multiple things which probably contributed to his death. He weighed over 300 pounds. He had chronic skin infections, including a large festering ulcer on one of his legs, which could have eventually caused a generalized sepsis. He most likely had diabetes, which would have accelerated his heart disease, vascular disease, high blood pressure, and propensity for infections. His personal hygiene was probably abysmal, as was the case for most people at that time, but made worse for him because of his huge bulk.
That leg ulcer was a Syphillis Chancre. This accounts for the first child of whatever wife/mistress being born healthy and the subsequent ones premature or still born. It also accounts for his wild mood swings and violet temper.
I was thinking about him while I was vacuuming today. I was thinking about how unfair it is that he blamed his wives for birthing girls, or stillborn children, or miscarrying boys. I’d really like the opportunity to tell him that it’s the father’s genetics that determine gender and it was never the fault of his wives for having miscarriages or still births. What a jerk he was.
That’s not right. His leg wound was an old leg fracture from the jousting accident in which the bones didn’t heal and became infected and intermittently drained. 😮
@stephanienewhouse2056 I've seen it noted that syphillis victims suffer from serious facial deformities, such as losing their noses. Now we all know that most portraits are 'enhanced' to make the subject look much better, but I *don't* believe that no one would gossip about the king's case of the "French Pox".
And we have evidence (testimonies) that his leg wound smelled so horrible, servants and courtiers had a hard time being in close proximity to him, so I'm with you on this.
Sounded like he had a pretty quiet death. If he was repentant, then he was saved in Christ. People who are Hellbound often start screaming on their death bed before they're dead.
I wrote in my book, The King's Raven, about Henry's last minutes and his movement in a lead lined casket. My book is fiction, but it will make you think about how Henry was thought of by the common man. Did you know that his body was stolen for a brief period.
Wait, so why exactly is one betrayal somehow more ultimate or profound than the other? Because the guy he betrayed is a man? Because I would think that giving a man, a child and then being beheaded under false charges is pretty ultimate betrayal. 🙄
@@pamorama Anne Boleyn had done more than enough to get to the chopping block without those charges. Conspiring against the Queen of England ring a bell? But regardless. To Henry Anne had a least done something to him. Failed to produce an heir. Thomas More had done nothing.
Betrayal? His brutal divorce and imprisonment of his faithful wife Catharine of Aragon was particularly harsh and as for his betrayals, it seems he couldn’t have hurt anyone else more deeply than her and his eldest daughter Queen Mary. I think his behavior set the stage for Queen Elizabeth to never ever trust in love or marriage.
@@04nbod I've read copious perspectives on the history. My comment to you is why is one betrayal more "ultimate" than another. If you love a man, bear a man a child and absolutely did NOT betray anyone--proven over and over again to be an excuse he conjured up to get rid of her--being beheaded is a pretty darn ultimate betrayal. Did Thomas More sleep with him, and bear him a child who indeed WAS the heir? You are valuing the man, and a male perspective over reason.
Very elegantly spoken and done upload- you aren't dull and monotoned like some other male historical narrative channels out there that sound repetitive and comparatively unstructured, so genuine thanks for your work my dear.
@@TheThinker-ce5kqno, it’s not really incorrect. Anne of Cleves is correctly listed as divorcing him, even though she outlived him. She wasn’t his spouse when he died, Parr was. And she ‘survived’ him. Have a look at obituaries for the correct usage of ‘survived’.
Sadly, I see some of symptoms working as a nurse currently. My patients are getting bigger and bigger. Lots of diabetes and non healing wounds. Lots of people get cellulitis (a skin infection)on their legs because now they are bacteria farm with all the blood sugar. It starts to ulcer. It takes getting someone’s sugar controlled just to properly treat it. The poor immune system, etc. High blood pressure, coupled with just high blood pressure makes you medically vulnerable. Untreated, it’s a stroke waiting to happen.
As a retired ICU /trauma RN, I am pretty sure ole fat Henry sustained an injury to the frontal lobe of his brain and this caused a change in his personality (as it usually does in people that suffer a closed head injury in that region). As far as his actual death, I lean toward hypertension, diabetes, and morbid obesity. I’m pretty sure he’s frying somewhere now. I’m not a MD and don’t deign to be one. This is my opinion, not a diagnosis.
After doing 2 years as a general surgery residency with days and nights spent in the SICU with open heart patients, peripheral vascular patients and any others post-surgically, I recognized very early that those SICU nurses were an incredible asset. They could make you look good if you treated them with respect or they could leave you hanging out to dry. Your years of experience gives great credibility to your opinions. There are many former patients whose lives can likely be attributed to your outstanding care.
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Henry never felt any remorse for Anne or Catherine, and I don't believe he did acknowledge this on his death bed, I have not seen it or heard a first hand account of that and it's always said that he never spoke of it again.
There was in fact a virtual post mortem carried out and aired on The History Channel in 2021 and a report published in the U.K Express on Sunday Oct 27th 2024. There was no mention of syphilis but the jousting accident of 1536 was reported which resulted in severe brain damage with mind altering consequences. In addition smallpox, varicose ulcers malaria and severe constipation were evident. All this coupled with his enormous weight resulted in his early demise.
Sorry didn't finish that. At the time of his death I dont believe pms were carried out. So obviously it was a modern analysis of the facts known of his death loosely called a pm.
Henry executed Anne Boleyn because he believed Anne was unable to bear him a son. Historian Retha Warnecke thinks Henry believed Anne was a was a “witch” because she miscarried a malformed male fetus. Warnecke thinks Henry would have viewed Anne’s miscarriage as a sign he would ever have a son with her. One historian believes it’s possible Anne may have had an Rh antigen that would have prevented her from bearing more children. He executed Katherine Howard, a cousin of Anne’s, because of her sexual escapades before her marriage, and her affair with a younger man during her marriage with Henry. He also treated Catherine of Aragon abominably and she died of a rare cardiac tumor.
He wanted a son and heir. At the time people didn’t know that the child’s sex is determined by the father’s contribution of an X or Y chromosome. Many people STILL don’t understand that and blame the wife for not producing sons. So many people were illiterate and never ventured more than a mile or two from their villages and never developed critical thinking skills. Their lives revolved around staying alive. At the time, that was a difficult task. If people have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever it’s not hard to come up with what we see as nonsensical explanations for things. Since he was the king with absolute power, his “advisors “ had a vested interest in telling him what he wanted to hear because they wanted to stay alive. Since they couldn’t say that maybe it was HIS fault that he couldn’t produce a healthy heir, it was more expedient to blame it on all of the women he slept with.
Henry understood how to wield power, and ruthlessly so. As the joke goes, if he decided to have you put the death, his idea of mercy was having the executioner uses a very sharp axe. If he didn't like you, a duller one. And if he hated you, 4 chains, 4 horses, and "giddyup!"
@@christinelillywhite777No, she wasn’t, that’s Tudor propaganda. They also occasionally suggested she had a third “witch’s tit”; this was all part of painting her as “evil.”
It turns out I'm related to him and a number of people he had executed. I must have known, as I selected him as the subject of the first report I ever did in elementary school. Glad I'm me, rather than any of them.
SIRRAH! IT IS WIDELY DOCUMENTED THAT HENERY VIII EMPLOYED A VERITABLE BATTALION OF LUSTY BOIL-SUCKERS TO SUCK-AND-SPIT THE MALODOROUS PUTRESCENCE IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF HIS ROYAL SYPHILITIC PUBES!!! SIRE YOU NEED TO ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE SUBTLE NUANCES OF ENGLISH LIT., AND HISTORY!
He was the King and those around him bent over backwards to allow him to live for as long as possible which is good because his latter years must have been agonising.
Based on the information in this and other RH videos that also touch on the matter, my guess is he died of sudden cardiac arrest 😂 What caused this…. My thoughts lean to the morbid obesity coupled with likely type 2 diabetes. Add a traumatic brain injury causing behavioral changes, and medical care based on voodoo and not science, you have a perfect recipe for death. Lastly, I have been seeing quite offensive comments lately on the channel’s videos. Please don’t be too discouraged by them. I really enjoy your videos. And to go after your voice, is honestly such trash bs and not worth your time thinking about. You’re doing great 👍🏼
I do not think he had syphillis. He didnt have to use the same women that the rest of society did. He had horrible gout, unhealed injuries, guilt, obesity, and his body exploded because it was huge and attended in his room and was rotting in its corpulence and the heat.
At this time SYphilis killed very quickly at that time . Later it became a weaker disease that lingered. He probably didn't have syphilis as much as people hate him and wish the worst on him.
@@judyjurek9334 Clearly you aren't familiar with English as spoken outside your own area. Read (or listen to) English as used in the UK, or Australia, for example. Lots of books by British authors, lots of DVDs of British TV and movies out there. Your library should have some.
I’ve noticed that in the close captioning of these videos they have Henry VIII written as the seventh VII. It’s a shame that no one has caught it or corrected it and has left it to this misinterpretation.
He was a physical mess. Any guess as to cause of death is as potentially valid as any other. It’s interesting that the actors chosen to portray him are usually very vigorous and charismatic.
The account of Henry, according to History Calling, being knocked out for 2 hours is misleading, as this came form the ambassador of the Soanish crown, who had got it form someone else, and no other source corroberates that Henry was unconscious for 2 hours. In fact, Henry at the time, said he was ok. Not certain that that makes it 100% impossible that he had a brain injury, but it the fact no one else said the King was unconscious suggests he wasn't nearly as severely injured as people think, if at all. Henry didn't reall have a perosnality change either, he was viscious before the injury, and being a grumpy old man who had inherited absolute power at 17 probably had far more to do with him being tyrannical than the head injury.
I gave this a tumbs down because it wasn't at all what the title indicated it would be, and there's little else of consequence. There's NO postmortem, either from reports of the time or from modern examination of remains. It's simply a listing of other people's guesses about what might have been the cause of death. IAnd yet in all that listing of best guesses, there's no mention of the syphilis. Does this imply they don't think he had syphilis? They never say, even imply, that. The only item I found of interest is the information about the head injury incurred when jousting, and that after that his personality began to change and his mobility was impaired. It would have been useful if they'd said WHEN this happened...how old was he? Were in the chains of wives and bad behaviors did this occur? I did enjoy the series of so many portraits. Given that it's a given that painters would have been painting to please the (vane and murderous) king, I found it interesting essentially every portrait showed a man who is cold-eyed and mean looking. This must have been how Henry wanted to be presented, his concept of conveying power. Weird. There's was one portrait that stood out that showed his with warmth and humanity in his face. Would love to know who painted it, and for whom.
For whatever good the Tudors did for the political entity of Great Britain, they were completely horrible for their spin-the-wheel attitude toward religious changes ("Hey kids! Guess what version of Christianity you will be following today!").
The Protestant Reformation developed in other places as well. Martin Luther for example was German. Religion played a different role in society at that time in history
Even the images of him are pretty gross, but imagine what he really looked liked! Hans Holbein who painted the most famous images we see today would have been all too careful to flatter Henry as much as possible in order to preserve his career and quite possibly his life! As to what he died of, well you can easily say a mix of absolute gluttony in everything from booze, food and sex and the whole host of complications and diseases associated with that, which given the time with no medical treatments to speak of, then he was lucky to have lasted as long as he did!
Yeah, I think he was brutal after his accident and probably had a TBI and terrible pain from never healing wounds on his leg. I don't think he started out horrible. Its kind of sad.
No matter what history tells us, we have no right to judge another person, irrespective of status, it is in his book of life for our loving God to judge. We may never know.
He had to have an heir, a male heir because in those days things like succession were decided in battle and the King led his army in battle! He never managed to have a male heir which is why the throne turned to the Jacobites the kings of Scotland
It was a completely different time then. We should not judge the dead. As for me, I hope he has found forgiveness and rests in peace. His diabetes, syphilis and brain injury have without doubt caused great suffering during his later years.
Murder is always murder irrespective of the time you live in. He himself knew he had committed horrendous crimes but only admitted this on his deathbed because he was looking for ‘salvation’.
He had no Brain injury . Maybe Syphilis . But don't know cos unlikely cos he took a long time to die , and he had no sores on his face . Also Elizabeth the First was normal , very unlikely , very , with Syphilis . I think I was Diabetes . And diabetic ulcers are common. Of course there was no effective treatment then . He certainly stank to high heaven . How his wives slept with him is beyond amazing . Due to the general lack of hygiene , they probably stank as well . I had a gf who bathed regularly and she sometimes smelled . Women now and then , have different discharges that can and do smell . Also then they didn't clean their arses properly . And frankly today toilet paper does often not do a proper job . Then there are over 20 venerial diseases and he could have had others . His " mad " ways could have been psychopathy . Or he was , like other English Kings , just a horrible person . Relative power corrupts relatively, And Absolute power corrupts Absolutely. ( Dr ) Leon Isaacs
With the chronic ulcers and infections, sepsis is a good guess.
Henry was a serial killer we hate Richard the third for the killings of the Princes in the tower what about all the other Kings and Queens who killed so many people
People are still murdering in the name of religion.
I agree re sepsis and disgusting lack of hygeine all round🤢
Bleeding butt and toe jam….
A weakened immune system due to gluttony, corpulence, diabetes and poor hygiene leading to skin ulcers and sepsis.
I expect Henry's 500 pounds has something to do with his death.
1:16 a cherubic little bastard.
Lard meter 500%
Most of it was water weight.
@@allenatkins2263 everybody knows the Holbein adds ten pounds.
@@gracegrace2107 😆
My thought is septicemia. Those leg ulcers were probably filled with every kind of bacteria known to exist.
I read his doctors kept popping open the ulcers because they believed this would heal them. In fact, they should have left the sores alone. Back then though, medicine was still so primitive.
Didn't they also stink something fierce? I heard it took a crapload of willpower to ignore dat leg stank.
@@donnamckinley5221Yes bc they believed in bleeding treatment. It was common in that era
Henry was a psychopath.
Very possibly, but whose words are you quoting?
Mine.
@@rotorheadv8”My source is I made it the fuck up!!”
He had a head injury from a jousting accident. Look at some of the other posts. A frontal lobe injury can cause major personality changes.
He also had a bone infection that never healed. The pain from that alone would make most of us angry
@@auroraborealis6009bullcrap
His son Edward and his daughter Mary turned out to be rather sickly creatures and did not live long, but Elizabeth I was an exeption, she lived to a respectable age.
I believe Mary suffered from kidney disease, which eventually took her life. I think her mother had the same thing. Edward got TB, if I remember correctly,
@@cvryder2000 Henry's illegitimate son died of TB, it was a common disease at the time. That son died at 17, Henry loved him and gave him many honours and titles. There was even talk of making him (Richmond) an heir to the throne before Edward was born.
But she was bald!
I think he had the clap!
@@cvryder2000Brights disease?
@@cvryder2000
Edward did die of TB, but he'd also had the measles shortly before he became ill with his final health event. Historians think his immunity was very low after the measles, and the TB (which he already had) was able to flourish and kill him quickly.
He was more of a tyrant than a king.
Tyrant you say.He killed 80,000 of his opponents in his lifetime.Henry was the subject of a plot to kill him by poisoning his food,the supposed plotter Richard Rouse was drowned in a barrel of wine.Another of Henry's opponents was boiled alive in front of a massive crowd,many throwing up it was so horrible.He definitely was a tyrant a very paranoid and vicious one as most are.
All kings are dictators/ tyrants.
Eveyone has an opinion
He scares the xxxx out of me even reading about him.
So sorry for his health difficulties, but they can't be an excuse for his cruelty and brutality.
Actually a closed brain injury can be a pretty good reason for his cruelty. Before that he was actually well liked by the people, when he was young.
His brain injury at 40 is. As his markedly changed personality afterwards.
A comment that reveals you know diddly about the possible psychological ramifications of his injuries. Modern medicine has theorized quite convincingly that Henry suffered a brain injuries that affected his personality.
Henry fell off his horse while jousting with Sir Henry Norris, his good friend, at Greenwich Palace.
The horse fell ON Henry VIII, causing what's considered, _through historical accounts,_ a traumatic brain injury.
He was unconscious for two hours, and the thought was he as going to die. Historic record, again.
He suffered another head injury, losing consciousness for a brief time a year later, while pole-vaulting.
Frontal lobe injuries can cause noticeable personality changes. Up to that point, Henry was good-natured and well-liked.
This doesn't excuse his abuse of power. But it does explain why he really went off the rails.
@@lindsaywarden1746 he had done sick and cruel things before his injury and ill health. People keep making excuses for him. No doubt it made him worse, that i do believe but he had that evil streak to start with, anyone can check it out if they dont wanna believe it. It didnt just start when he was ill. No excuse as you said.
There was no postmortem of Henry VIII. The title of this video is misleading. There are multiple things which probably contributed to his death. He weighed over 300 pounds. He had chronic skin infections, including a large festering ulcer on one of his legs, which could have eventually caused a generalized sepsis. He most likely had diabetes, which would have accelerated his heart disease, vascular disease, high blood pressure, and propensity for infections. His personal hygiene was probably abysmal, as was the case for most people at that time, but made worse for him because of his huge bulk.
There are accounts of him stinking so badly (due to his infected skin ulcers and possible low hygiene) that you could smell him from 2 rooms away…
Agreed
I had just written the same above. Click bait for certain.
I’m surprised that he lived as long as he did, the SOB.
Rude
@@catherinewoolf504 GFY.
He ate himself to death.
Lol
@@johnkeviljr9625 🤣
Diabetes related complications complicated by high blood pressure and obesity
That leg ulcer was a Syphillis Chancre. This accounts for the first child of whatever wife/mistress being born healthy and the subsequent ones premature or still born. It also accounts for his wild mood swings and violet temper.
I was thinking about him while I was vacuuming today. I was thinking about how unfair it is that he blamed his wives for birthing girls, or stillborn children, or miscarrying boys. I’d really like the opportunity to tell him that it’s the father’s genetics that determine gender and it was never the fault of his wives for having miscarriages or still births. What a jerk he was.
Alliums and crocuses are up
That’s not right. His leg wound was an old leg fracture from the jousting accident in which the bones didn’t heal and became infected and intermittently drained. 😮
Add TBI after his jousting accident
@stephanienewhouse2056 I've seen it noted that syphillis victims suffer from serious facial deformities, such as losing their noses. Now we all know that most portraits are 'enhanced' to make the subject look much better, but I *don't* believe that no one would gossip about the king's case of the "French Pox".
Any votes for syphilitic infection?
No cause none of his existing medical records ever indicated he was treated for it. I think it was diabetes with a side order of sepsis.
Yeah that Katherine of Aragon was a skank
Syphilitic Gummata are typically painless and white and usually spread throughout the body, typically the head and brain.
@@honest6360 Yeah! Of course, if something was documented that he didn't approve, you'd be beheaded! Exactly, why we don't know the facts!
That was established.
Henry the eighth deserves descration. He admitted he was heading to hell. I won’t argue his point. I don’t need to add with others he was a monster
You should study the history of England, there were worse kings and rulers.
There are 7.4 million monsters in Palestine calked "Israelis" 😅
I'm surprised that his ulcerated legs didn't give him blood poisoning plus the odour would have been bad
And we have evidence (testimonies) that his leg wound smelled so horrible, servants and courtiers had a hard time being in close proximity to him, so I'm with you on this.
Barf 🤮
Who was going to tell him though? 😂
Ulcerated legs are dangerous. Quite possibly sepsis, who knows.
I’m sure back then the odor was pretty bad to begin with.
He was a cruel glutton.
I'm just going to say what everybody else is thinking. That bedchamber had a stench worthy of the way he reigned.
King psychopath period. He came from hell and went back to it .
Sounded like he had a pretty quiet death. If he was repentant, then he was saved in Christ.
People who are Hellbound often start screaming on their death bed before they're dead.
Life is a vale of tears not a bowl of cherries.
I wrote in my book, The King's Raven, about Henry's last minutes and his movement in a lead lined casket. My book is fiction, but it will make you think about how Henry was thought of by the common man. Did you know that his body was stolen for a brief period.
Do you know who stole it, and why? And when would this have happened?
It’s the exploding part that gets me. I keep visualizing the video of the whale they deliberately exploded on a beach to get rid of the carcass.
A beached dead whale is a hazard. Methane gases can build up inside until the corpse burst.
I red that book. Brilliant
Who on Earth would want it???
Maybe he wasn't thinking about the wives he killed but St Thomas More? I consider that his ultimate betrayal
Wait, so why exactly is one betrayal somehow more ultimate or profound than the other? Because the guy he betrayed is a man? Because I would think that giving a man, a child and then being beheaded under false charges is pretty ultimate betrayal. 🙄
@@pamorama Anne Boleyn had done more than enough to get to the chopping block without those charges. Conspiring against the Queen of England ring a bell?
But regardless. To Henry Anne had a least done something to him. Failed to produce an heir. Thomas More had done nothing.
Thomas More was far from being an innocent hero. He had ordered the burning alive of "heretics" .
Betrayal? His brutal divorce and imprisonment of his faithful wife Catharine of Aragon was particularly harsh and as for his betrayals, it seems he couldn’t have hurt anyone else more deeply than her and his eldest daughter Queen Mary. I think his behavior set the stage for Queen Elizabeth to never ever trust in love or marriage.
@@04nbod I've read copious perspectives on the history. My comment to you is why is one betrayal more "ultimate" than another. If you love a man, bear a man a child and absolutely did NOT betray anyone--proven over and over again to be an excuse he conjured up to get rid of her--being beheaded is a pretty darn ultimate betrayal. Did Thomas More sleep with him, and bear him a child who indeed WAS the heir? You are valuing the man, and a male perspective over reason.
you miss tertiary syphilis, which could have affected his brain and caused his mental disorder
Plus his closed head injury
Not to mention the ‘intractable sore’ on his leg was a Syphilis chancre.
@@stephanienewhouse2056you keep saying that when you don't know.
His brain might effected his syphilis....
@freebeerfordworkers wether he had syphillis or Covid, he was a scourge.
I expected some sort of excavation based on the picture, not a long history lesson lol
Very elegantly spoken and done upload- you aren't dull and monotoned like some other male historical narrative channels out there that sound repetitive and comparatively unstructured, so genuine thanks for your work my dear.
Thank you for making this interesting compact video.
Henry 8 had six wives "Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived."
Anne of Cleeves outlived Henry. So rhyme is incorrect.
@@TheThinker-ce5kq the rhyme focuses n the women that married Henry. The last one survived, so the rhyme is correct. [my take]
I think the rhyme refers to how he got rid of his wives@@TheThinker-ce5kq
@@TheThinker-ce5kqno, it’s not really incorrect. Anne of Cleves is correctly listed as divorcing him, even though she outlived him. She wasn’t his spouse when he died, Parr was. And she ‘survived’ him. Have a look at obituaries for the correct usage of ‘survived’.
Sadly, I see some of symptoms working as a nurse currently. My patients are getting bigger and bigger. Lots of diabetes and non healing wounds. Lots of people get cellulitis (a skin infection)on their legs because now they are bacteria farm with all the blood sugar. It starts to ulcer. It takes getting someone’s sugar controlled just to properly treat it. The poor immune system, etc. High blood pressure, coupled with just high blood pressure makes you medically vulnerable. Untreated, it’s a stroke waiting to happen.
Pretty sure the dude that painted Henry cross eyed (the last portrait) was sentenced to death!😜
Probably the only accurate painting of him
As a retired ICU /trauma RN, I am pretty sure ole fat Henry sustained an injury to the frontal lobe of his brain and this caused a change in his personality (as it usually does in people that suffer a closed head injury in that region). As far as his actual death, I lean toward hypertension, diabetes, and morbid obesity. I’m pretty sure he’s frying somewhere now. I’m not a MD and don’t deign to be one. This is my opinion, not a diagnosis.
I agree. He was never the same after that jousting accident and definitely caused major personality changes.
After doing 2 years as a general surgery residency with days and nights spent in the SICU with open heart patients, peripheral vascular patients and any others post-surgically, I recognized very early that those SICU nurses were an incredible asset. They could make you look good if you treated them with respect or they could leave you hanging out to dry. Your years of experience gives great credibility to your opinions. There are many former patients whose lives can likely be attributed to your outstanding care.
@@stephenwatson4846 many thanks 🙏 did it for 30 years. Retired before Covid 👍
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What a revolting tyrannical monarch.
I hope his creator judged him accordingly.
Yes
if the monster had a creator, should that creator not be judged also?
We all have a Nazi inside us.
Henry never felt any remorse for Anne or Catherine, and I don't believe he did acknowledge this on his death bed, I have not seen it or heard a first hand account of that and it's always said that he never spoke of it again.
Just women, I’m sure it mattered not at all.
I'm curious about WHO these executioners were 😨and how they got that gruesome & unholy job 😨
He died from an overactive chip pan
Surprised you didn’t get any thumbs up for that, it made me laugh.
I’m nicking that one ☝️
Type one burger-eaties
He looks like Chumlee on Pawn Stars.
😂😂😂
Hey, you take that back.
@henrythemuthafuckineighth No, I won't take that back! What are you going to do, Your Royal Hind-end - I mean "Highness"? Have me beheaded??
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭🤭🤣🤣🤣
Chumlees not that bad
Physically manifested what evil inside looks like.
One giant maggot inside of him....
There was in fact a virtual post mortem carried out and aired on The History Channel in 2021 and a report published in the U.K Express on Sunday Oct 27th 2024. There was no mention of syphilis but the jousting accident of 1536 was reported which resulted in severe brain damage with mind altering consequences. In addition smallpox, varicose ulcers malaria and severe constipation were evident. All this coupled with his enormous weight resulted in his early demise.
Sooooo, what are the results of the postmortem???? Thumbs down.
Boo.... AArghh!
Thank you this was very interesting😊
This is an example of how power corrupts, he had every want, and whim at his disposal, his desires were ultimately his downfall.
Nothing in this video concerns any type of "Postmortem". Only conjecture and hearsay.
Perhaps you should have watched the full program before passing judgement. I have no recollection of reference to a post Morten.
@@jennyshaw5098 Perhaps you should look at the title of the video "The DISTURBING Postmortem Of King Henry VIII"
A postmortem of the
Sorry didn't finish that. At the time of his death I dont believe pms were carried out. So obviously it was a modern analysis of the facts known of his death loosely called a pm.
Ban fake videos....
That was the pay back for the seven wives he betrayed.🤫
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Henry executed Anne Boleyn because he believed Anne was unable to bear him a son. Historian Retha Warnecke thinks Henry believed Anne was a was a “witch” because she miscarried a malformed male fetus. Warnecke thinks Henry would have viewed Anne’s miscarriage as a sign he would ever have a son with her. One historian believes it’s possible Anne may have had an Rh antigen that would have prevented her from bearing more children. He executed Katherine Howard, a cousin of Anne’s, because of her sexual escapades before her marriage, and her affair with a younger man during her marriage with Henry. He also treated Catherine of Aragon abominably and she died of a rare cardiac tumor.
He wanted a son and heir. At the time people didn’t know that the child’s sex is determined by the father’s contribution of an X or Y chromosome. Many people STILL don’t understand that and blame the wife for not producing sons.
So many people were illiterate and never ventured more than a mile or two from their villages and never developed critical thinking skills. Their lives revolved around staying alive. At the time, that was a difficult task.
If people have absolutely no knowledge whatsoever it’s not hard to come up with what we see as nonsensical explanations for things.
Since he was the king with absolute power, his “advisors “ had a vested interest in telling him what he wanted to hear because they wanted to stay alive. Since they couldn’t say that maybe it was HIS fault that he couldn’t produce a healthy heir, it was more expedient to blame it on all of the women he slept with.
6 wives. Divorced (Katherine of Aragon), beheaded (Anne Boleyn), died (Jane Seymour), divorced (Anne of Cleves), beheaded (Catherine Howard), survived (Katherine Parr)
@@stephanienewhouse2056 My dad was from the UK and he taught me that!
Henry understood how to wield power, and ruthlessly so. As the joke goes, if he decided to have you put the death, his idea of mercy was having the executioner uses a very sharp axe. If he didn't like you, a duller one. And if he hated you, 4 chains, 4 horses, and "giddyup!"
Didn’t he have syphilis too?
YAE VERILY KNAVE ! THE LOWLY CRETIN HATH YON GALLOPING KNOB-ROT!
Anne Boleyn was probably Rhesus negative
So am I
Why? What did I miss.
AB was polydactyl, not often mentioned,
@@christinelillywhite777No, she wasn’t, that’s Tudor propaganda. They also occasionally suggested she had a third “witch’s tit”; this was all part of painting her as “evil.”
Scary King. The Poor People had To Deal With.
Purgatory is too good for Henry XIII
You mean Henry VIII (8th) not Henry XIII (13th)
What happened to the post mortem?
I was thinking that too. Good video, but not as promised.
more click bait it seems
I saw Henry’s suit of armor. He had a ridiculously large cod piece. Me thinks he esteems his Johnson too much.
False advertising, he was so fat that he probably couldn't even see it. No one else could see it either..😂
The man was a tyrant, and deserves no mercy from all future generations.
He didnt burn witches in England.
It turns out I'm related to him and a number of people he had executed. I must have known, as I selected him as the subject of the first report I ever did in elementary school. Glad I'm me, rather than any of them.
He died of alot of things. What kept him alive for so long?
Big Macs
SIRRAH! IT IS WIDELY DOCUMENTED THAT HENERY VIII EMPLOYED A VERITABLE BATTALION OF LUSTY BOIL-SUCKERS
TO SUCK-AND-SPIT THE MALODOROUS PUTRESCENCE IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF HIS ROYAL SYPHILITIC PUBES!!!
SIRE YOU NEED TO ACQUAINT YOURSELF WITH THE SUBTLE NUANCES OF ENGLISH LIT., AND HISTORY!
He was the King and those around him bent over backwards to allow him to live for as long as possible which is good because his latter years must have been agonising.
I find it incredibly hard to believe that these people were allowed to remove the body to do a post mortum exam.
The huge codpieces were vanity and wanting to broadcast he was still virile.
Based on the information in this and other RH videos that also touch on the matter, my guess is he died of sudden cardiac arrest 😂
What caused this…. My thoughts lean to the morbid obesity coupled with likely type 2 diabetes. Add a traumatic brain injury causing behavioral changes, and medical care based on voodoo and not science, you have a perfect recipe for death.
Lastly, I have been seeing quite offensive comments lately on the channel’s videos. Please don’t be too discouraged by them. I really enjoy your videos. And to go after your voice, is honestly such trash bs and not worth your time thinking about. You’re doing great 👍🏼
I do not think he had syphillis. He didnt have to use the same women that the rest of society did. He had horrible gout, unhealed injuries, guilt, obesity, and his body exploded because it was huge and attended in his room and was rotting in its corpulence and the heat.
At this time SYphilis killed very quickly at that time . Later it became a weaker disease that lingered. He probably didn't have syphilis as much as people hate him and wish the worst on him.
Different From - Similar To.
Depends on which part of the English speaking world you are from.
No it doesn't. "Different from, similar to, compare with". English is English regardless of where you live. .
@@judyjurek9334 Clearly you aren't familiar with English as spoken outside your own area. Read (or listen to) English as used in the UK, or Australia, for example. Lots of books by British authors, lots of DVDs of British TV and movies out there. Your library should have some.
The jousting injury could have been the caused some of his cruelty, but he was ruthless before.
This wasn’t what you led us to believe it would be!
So, there was NO Postmortem. Misleading..
I’ve noticed that in the close captioning of these videos they have Henry VIII written as the seventh VII. It’s a shame that no one has caught it or corrected it and has left it to this misinterpretation.
but how could he explode of his body was cut open to take out his heart / organs ?
Gasses in the abdomen
They sewed him up and shoved onions up his butt and in his mouth.
Even kings die and pain 😢😢😢
Don’t feel sorry for this man. He’s a murderer
He was a physical mess. Any guess as to cause of death is as potentially valid as any other. It’s interesting that the actors chosen to portray him are usually very vigorous and charismatic.
The account of Henry, according to History Calling, being knocked out for 2 hours is misleading, as this came form the ambassador of the Soanish crown, who had got it form someone else, and no other source corroberates that Henry was unconscious for 2 hours. In fact, Henry at the time, said he was ok. Not certain that that makes it 100% impossible that he had a brain injury, but it the fact no one else said the King was unconscious suggests he wasn't nearly as severely injured as people think, if at all. Henry didn't reall have a perosnality change either, he was viscious before the injury, and being a grumpy old man who had inherited absolute power at 17 probably had far more to do with him being tyrannical than the head injury.
I gave this a tumbs down because it wasn't at all what the title indicated it would be, and there's little else of consequence. There's NO postmortem, either from reports of the time or from modern examination of remains. It's simply a listing of other people's guesses about what might have been the cause of death. IAnd yet in all that listing of best guesses, there's no mention of the syphilis. Does this imply they don't think he had syphilis? They never say, even imply, that. The only item I found of interest is the information about the head injury incurred when jousting, and that after that his personality began to change and his mobility was impaired. It would have been useful if they'd said WHEN this happened...how old was he? Were in the chains of wives and bad behaviors did this occur? I did enjoy the series of so many portraits. Given that it's a given that painters would have been painting to please the (vane and murderous) king, I found it interesting essentially every portrait showed a man who is cold-eyed and mean looking. This must have been how Henry wanted to be presented, his concept of conveying power. Weird. There's was one portrait that stood out that showed his with warmth and humanity in his face. Would love to know who painted it, and for whom.
Why do most of the paintings make his right side look so much wider/larger? The livery collar looks off balanced...
Interesting well done history!😊
For whatever good the Tudors did for the political entity of Great Britain, they were completely horrible for their spin-the-wheel attitude toward religious changes ("Hey kids! Guess what version of Christianity you will be following today!").
The United States should remember that it owes Evangelism to King Henry VIII.
Meaning🤷🏻♂️
The evil of the reformation:
Ah, don't think so. Read your history if you want a reason. Evangelism started here, as a reaction to Henry's Catholic version of protesentism.
The Protestant Reformation developed in other places as well. Martin Luther for example was German.
Religion played a different role in society at that time in history
Commiserations for your misfortune, I guess that you have to blame somebody for it.
what was henry's favourite comfort food? maybe we don't know but it wasn't ben and jerry's icecream
Toe jam on meadow muffins......
Or, Meghan's hoe-made jam!
What is sad is that you never cover what the title of this video is-no "post mortem" results are given. Sad that you mislead people.
#JustSayin': you deserve a better microphone.
Also, we can control "room echo". We can, you know :-)
Even the images of him are pretty gross, but imagine what he really looked liked! Hans Holbein who painted the most famous images we see today would have been all too careful to flatter Henry as much as possible in order to preserve his career and quite possibly his life!
As to what he died of, well you can easily say a mix of absolute gluttony in everything from booze, food and sex and the whole host of complications and diseases associated with that, which given the time with no medical treatments to speak of, then he was lucky to have lasted as long as he did!
Henry VIII inherited porphyria.
Didn't he declare himself to be head of the church? I mean, come on, that's not good for his hereafter resume. Right?
Head of the church of england. Whats wrong with that?
No different to the pope or patriarch of constantinople.
So there was no postmortem and nothing was DISTURBING. Excellent heading.
I wish they would repair his casket. I think the current rulers could pony up the repair costs.
Yeah, I think he was brutal after his accident and probably had a TBI and terrible pain from never healing wounds on his leg. I don't think he started out horrible. Its kind of sad.
I think he was paranoid after the jousting accident. He knew that had he died there would be no heir.
No more ruthless than the rest of them all around the world. If you were not ruthless then you lost your own head.
No matter what history tells us, we have no right to judge another person, irrespective of status, it is in his book of life for our loving God to judge. We may never know.
When does desecration of a grave become archaeology?
They daren't say it was syphilis
He had to have an heir, a male heir because in those days things like succession were decided in battle and the King led his army in battle! He never managed to have a male heir which is why the throne turned to the Jacobites the kings of Scotland
It was a completely different time then. We should not judge the dead. As for me, I hope he has found forgiveness and rests in peace. His diabetes, syphilis and brain injury have without doubt caused great suffering during his later years.
Murder is always murder irrespective of the time you live in. He himself knew he had committed horrendous crimes but only admitted this on his deathbed because he was looking for ‘salvation’.
He had no Brain injury . Maybe Syphilis . But don't know cos unlikely cos he took a long time to die , and he had no sores on his face .
Also Elizabeth the First was normal , very unlikely , very , with Syphilis .
I think I was Diabetes . And diabetic ulcers are common.
Of course there was no effective treatment then .
He certainly stank to high heaven . How his wives slept with him is beyond amazing . Due to the general lack of hygiene , they probably stank as well .
I had a gf who bathed regularly and she sometimes smelled . Women now and then , have different discharges that can and do smell .
Also then they didn't clean their arses properly . And frankly today toilet paper does often not do a proper job .
Then there are over 20 venerial diseases and he could have had others .
His " mad " ways could have been psychopathy .
Or he was , like other English Kings , just a horrible person .
Relative power corrupts relatively,
And Absolute power corrupts Absolutely.
( Dr ) Leon Isaacs
He got rid of the catholic hierarchy just like uk got rid off the eu. This started the rise of England as a no.1 super power.
Heretics never prosper
This is not a post mortem on his body.
He was an evil king
God could pardon hemi but hemi did not pardon others, I would not want to been hemi
The two wives he killed were cousins!
He sounds disgusting on multiple levels.
Doubtless syphilis added to his list of problems.
Very good video, but goddang. Can you not put click bait titles on these things? Very disappointing.
What a despicable despot. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy...
I would love to know if he had syphilis also.
A little known fact about Henry the VIii was that he tried to become King Henry the ninety 😢😅😂
I thought King Henry VIII died of syphillis?
The syphillis died of Henry......
A shadow of his former self but hugely over weight 🙈
Some people just don’t die soon enough
No because your creator and monster are on different platforms.
Your creator is ultimate and is not judged. 😊
Postmortem (figuratively) not discussed in this vid)