HIST 4043 Lecture : NOTES THE DIVORCE
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This was called the king"s great matter. this is crucial to the playing out of everything else that happens politically, religiously, economically, and socially for the rest of the dynasty. Let"s go back to the origins of his marriage. Katherine was about 12 when she went to england to take up her marriage to prince arthur. This was the subject of extremely delicate negotiations between the english and spanish royal families. When it came to creating marriages for their children, they were very successful and this led to their success. Their first success was with juana, katherine"s sister. This made the dynasty connection of spain and the habsburgs. Katherine"s marriage was never simple the negotiations involved hard- headed bargaining and katherine was the football who was expected to just go along and get along with all of the demands on both sides.
