HIST 1003 Chapter : Class January 29
Document Summary
The history of england in the last decade of the 1400s was complicated, bloody, chaotic, because a civil war was going on in the nobility to find out who would be find. This was called the war of the roses. The surprise winner of the war was henry. Tudor and thus he established the tudor family on the throne in england. He goes down in history as henry the 7th two sons elder arthur and younger was henry. He was very ambitious and tried to contract an advantageous marriage between arthur of catherine of aragon who was the daughter of king and queen ferdinand and. Before they had children and before henry 7 died arthur died. Henry the 7th thought the marriage was too good to give up so he tried to get young henry to marry catherine, his brothers widow. Marriage was not about love it was about alliances and children.
