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1.Catherine of Aragon 2.Anne Boleyn 3. Jane Seymour 4.Anne of Cleves 5.Katherine Howard 6.Katherine Parr
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Henry VIII's Six Wives

Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's First Wife

Queen of England: 11 June 1509 – 7 January 1533 

Coronation: 23 June 1509


Tenure: 23 years,11 months,19 days


Born: 16 December 1485, Alcalá de Henares, Spain


Died: 7 January, 1536, Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire


Aged: 50


Cause of Death: Natural causes, however poising was suspected


Other Marriage: 
Arthur, Prince of Wales 14 November 1501–2 April 1502


Surviving Children: Mary I of England 


Parents: Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile


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Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's Second Wife 

Queen of England: Married late 1532 or early 1533 – 19 May 1536

Coronation: 1 June 1533


Tenure: 2 years 11 months 19 days


Born: Not established but possibly 1501 at Bickling, 

Norfolk or Hever Castle, Kent

Died: 19 May 1536


Aged: Not established but possibly about 35


Cause of Death: Execution - Beheaded


Surviving: Children: Elizabeth I, Queen of England


Parents: Thomas Boleyn and Elizabeth Howard


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Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's Third Wife

Queen of England:  30 May 1536 – 24 October 1537

Coronation: No coronation


Tenure: 1 year, 4 months 24 days


Born: Date not established, about 1508 probably Wulfhall, Savernake Forest, Wiltshire,


Died: 24 October 1537


Aged: About 29


Cause of Death: Illness after childbirth


Surviving Children: Edward VI, King of England


Parents: John Seymour and Margery Wentworth


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Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's Fourth Wife

Queen of England: 6 January 1540 – 9 July 1540

Coronation: No coronation


Tenure: 6 months. 3 days


Born: 22 September 1515, Düsseldorf, present day Germany


Died: 16 July 1557 


Aged: 41


Cause of Death: Not established, possibly cancer.


Surviving Children: None


Parents: John III, Duke of Cleves and Maria of Jülich-Berg


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Katherine Howard, Henry VIII's Fifth Wife

Queen of England: 28 July 1540 – 23 November 1541

Coronation No Coronation


Tenure: 1 tear 3 months, 26 days


Born: About 1520, Lambeth London


Died: 13 February 1542 


Aged: About 21


Cause of Death: Execution - Beheaded


Surviving Children: None


Parents: Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper


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Katherine Parr, Henry VIII's Sixth Wife

Queen of England: 12 July 1543 – 28 January 1547

Coronation No coronation

Tenure: 3 years, 6 months, 16 days

Born: 1512, Blackfriars, London.

Died: 5 September 1548 

Aged 35 or 36

Cause of Death: Illness after childbirth 

Other Marriages 
Sir Edward Burgh, 1529–33, he died
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer, 1534–43, he died
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, May 1547–48


Surviving Children: Mary Seymour, but died aged 2 years


Parents: Sir Thomas Parr and Maud Green


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