Henry then married four more times giving him a total of six wives before his death at age 55 in This isn't the only recent Tudor finding at Greenwich Palace; in , archaeologists found hidden rooms that are now buried underground, Live Science previously reported.
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Live Science. Image 1 of 7. Image 2 of 7. Image 3 of 7. Image 4 of 7. Image 5 of 7. Thomas Cromwell had shown him that he could go a lot further in imposing his will than he had ever dreamed was possible. Both accidents would have played a part, but the thing about CTE is that all the little incidents nobody would have recorded — the ones where he just fell, or had his bell rung — would each have caused almost as much damage.
The dozens of little unrecorded hits would have caused the majority of the damage. Jousting was certainly a dangerous sport, not just because of the risk of injury but because the impact of charging into another man at around forty miles an hour, with both knights horses and armour combined weighing around half a ton jolted both body and brain. However, do we know how much jousting Henry actually did in the course of his life? In contrast, one of his Lancastrian predecessors as king, Henry IV, took part in over fifty jousting competitions, starting when he was fourteen.
As far as I know, this incident in is the only recorded occasion on which Henry fell from a horse, and it is far from clear whether he suffered a concussion or not due to the contradictory contemporary information, as Claire said in her original post. I looked up this condition here is a link. If you skip the first bit, and go straight to the Introduction it lists the various symptoms.
Do we think any of these were displayed by Henry? I think I agree, Claire, with all that going on, not so sure that any monarch faced with so many challenges to his authority would not have reacted the same way. Thanks for the confirmation of the accident dates; yes; certainly having an heir early in his reign would have resolved a lot of problems.
Risings, divorces, children dying young, no heir, his sexual potency being rumoured about; threats from inside and outside the court, perceived treasons from old friends and colleagues and his wife not being all he hoped for, even if she was innocent; his world must have seemed as if it was about to fall apart at times.
I am not very surprised that his reaction was often one of cruel violence, these were violent times, and may-be he did not feel as in control as he should have been. I probably sound potty; but Henry is one of the few rulers that had so much more potential than his life problems allowed him to have. Oh well! He started his reign with so much promise and really was a Renaissance prince, but things went rather wrong. What pressure he must have been under. Henry Bieber?
LoL Sounds silly I know. And you can not compare the both of them. Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethen, Tudor, Medieval England series; very clear from the most recent one that many of us would be very unprepared for the era; many of the diseases would take us out for a start and so many different laws that would affect our daily lives; we would indeed probably end up doing something that would get us into trouble.
Oh, well, back to the drawing board. How reliable is that? I mean, would I trust the diagnosis of a doctor prescribing me medicine or a treatment only based on some rather vague things he has heard about me? Without a proper examination, tests of my blood, and other things? And even when doctors do examine a patient and take blood and have it tested, etc. Should we really trust the diagnosis by a doctor based on the scanty evidence we have?
And yet, this is what happens where Henry is concerned. We say: oh, wow! How clever, and it sounds reasonable. And it may sound like that yes. At best it is speculation, and nothing more.
Many things may have influenced his decisions, even his state of health. But unless we find out more about his state of health, we can not give too much credit to the opinion medical of doctors living now….
To reverse it. Now his remains have been found, we know that this was actually based on something: his scoliosis. Not a hunchback, but indeed a deformity of his body that must have been noticed at the time.
We need both written evidence and research of a body before we can come near to a good explanation. For Wriothesly it would possibly have been safe not to dwell on any serious injuries. But Chapuys would not have any reason to keep things to himself.
To me it seems likely that he based his reports on what he heard, and not just by one person, probably what he heard from several sources. Which is the more reliable account? You tell me!
We just do not know exactly what happened…. However, if the injuries were internal, or sub-cutaneous to the hair, then it might be thought he had no injuries. Wriothesly would be spinning the story of uninjured, but I agree, Chapuys would have no reason so to do. If nothing could be seen, then to all intent and purpose, Henry appeared to be uninjured. LoL I know where the body is. And agreed, I do not think exhumation will happen as long as Britain is a monarchy.
Hans, I believe the animal would have to be able to slay a unicorn and a lion and will probably speak with a Scottish accent. The Scottish referendum in September will tell the world whether or not Scotland is going to break with England. Will this be the pebble that starts the avalanche that overwhelms the English monarchy? But I digress! Very true, Esther, it must have been a real wake-up call for Henry.
All the comments are very interesting. Four months is a comparatively short time for such an about turn. Was Henry really so gullible as to believe the almost incredible rumours his sycophantic courtiers fed him, and why, after his schism with Rome did he turn his attention to someone the Seymour creature with Catholic sympathies?
And the fact that she had such an undignified burial. After all, there had been several other headless corpses to provide for in the preceding days, and the incumbent of St Peter ad Vincula must have been kept pretty busy mumbling some sort of committal service over them all.
I think he was astonishingly capable of self-delusion. Unlike people today who cling to lies no matter how much reliable evidence exists to the contrary, he merely had new evidence created that justified his beliefs. Charlene, a very astute comment. Probably the best known quote is from Chapter He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.
Had he died, history would have been so changed!!!! It is interesting to think what would have transpired. Had she miscarried anyway, Elizabeth would have been queen, again with her mother likely acting as regent.
Per Live Science, the tiltyard stretched about by feet, with ample room for armored jousters to lunge toward one another on horseback and wield their long lances. In the years following the fall, however, his mental and physical condition steadily worsened. A study conducted by scientists at Yale University posited that in his later years, the Tudor monarch displayed symptoms consistent with a history of traumatic brain injuries. As a young man , Henry had embraced rough-and-tumble sports— particularly jousting —and he seemed to have a propensity for accidents.
In , the king failed to lower the visor on his helmet while jousting and suffered a blow to the head above his right eye. The injury caused serious migraines that persisted for the remainder of his life.
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