What is Henry VIII?
{{Cleanup|date=March 2025}}{{Infobox royalty | name = Henry VIII{{efn|He made the Church of England. He was a tyrant because of the people he beheaded.}} | image = After Hans Holbein the Younger - Portrait of Henry VIII - Google Art Project.jpg | caption = ''[[Portrait of Henry VIII]]'' after [[Hans Holbein the Younger]], {{Circa|1537–1562}} | alt = Full-length portrait of King Henry VIII | succession = [[King of England]]<br/>[[Lord of Ireland|Lord]]/[[King of Ireland]] | moretext = ([[Style of the English sovereigns|more...]]) | reign = {{Nowrap|22 April 1509&nbsp;– 28 January 1547}} | coronation = 24 June 1509 | cor-type = [[Coronation of Henry VIII and Catherine|Coronation]] | predecessor = [[Henry VII of England|Henry VII]] | successor = [[Edward VI]] | birth_date = 28 June 1491 | birth_place = [[Palace of Placentia]], Greenwich, England | death_date = 28 January 1547 (aged 55) | death_place = [[Palace of Whitehall]], Westminster, England | burial_date = 16 February 1547 | burial_place = [[St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle]], Berkshire | issue = {{Indented plainlist| * [[Henry, Duke of Cornwall]] * [[Mary I of England]] * [[Elizabeth I|Elizabeth I of England]] * [[Edward VI|Edward VI of England]] * [[Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset]] ({{Abbr|ill.|illegitimate}}) }} | issue-link = #Wives, mistresses, and children | issue-pipe = more... | house = [[House of Tudor|Tudor]] | father = [[Henry VII of England]] | mother = [[Elizabeth of York]] | religion = {{Plainlist| * [[Roman Catholicism]] (1491–1534) * [[Church of England]] (1534–1547) }} | spouses = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|[[Catherine of Aragon]]|11 June 1509|23 May 1533|end={{Abbr|ann.|annulled}}}} * {{Marriage|[[Anne Boleyn]]|25 January 1533|17 May 1536|end={{Abbr|ann.|annulled}}}} * {{Marriage|[[Jane Seymour]]|30 May 1536|24 October 1537|end=d}} * {{Marriage|[[Anne of Cleves]]|6 January 1540|9 July 1540|end={{Abbr|ann.|annulled}}}} * {{Marriage