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Catherine of Aragon

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Born: 1485 AD
Died: 1536 AD, at 50 years of age.

Nationality: English
Categories: Queen

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1485 – She was born on the 16th day of December this year in Alcalá de Henares.

 

1501 – She was married to Prince Arthur, the eldest son of Henry VII of England.

 

1513 – She was extremely popular with the people. She governed the nation as Regent while Henry invaded France.

 

1520 - She accompanied the king to France on the celebrated visit to Francis I, remembered (from the splendors of the occasion) as the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

 

1531 – She separated from Henry this year.

 

1536 - She died of a form of cancer at Kimbolton Castle, on the 7th of January this year.






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