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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The first wife of Henry VIII of England. Henry's insistence on a divorce from her (1533) caused his break with Roman Catholicism and the beginning of the English Reformation.
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- noun first wife of Henry VIII; Henry VIII's divorce from her was the initial step of the Reformation in England (1485-1536)
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A facsimile of an historic document from the Vatican Secret Archives in which English peers appeal to Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is to be given to the Queen tomorrow.
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A facsimile of an historic document from the Vatican Secret Archives in which English peers appeal to Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is to be given to the Queen tomorrow.
Vatican to give Queen copy of Henry VIII's divorce plea 2009
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English peers appealed to Pope Clement VII to annul Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is to be given to the Queen theatre community will play the hunchback king - variously called a spider, a toad and worse - in at the Tony Award-winning
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This was Henry's effort to sanction his divorce of Catherine of Aragon for not producing a male heir that lived beyond infancy.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh: Will President Obama Continue To Support Conscience Rights? Sister Mary Ann Walsh 2011
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His later missions were thankless tasks, negotiating implausible rapprochements with the pope and Emperor Charles V who happened, inconveniently, to be Catherine of Aragon's nephew.
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011
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In 1515, Catherine of Aragon was reported to have traveled into the forest with 25 ladies in waiting to bathe in the May dew.
Donna Henes: May Day: A Bawdy Festival of Fertility Donna Henes 2011
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In 1515, Catherine of Aragon was reported to have traveled into the forest with 25 ladies in waiting to bathe in the May dew.
Donna Henes: May Day: A Bawdy Festival of Fertility Donna Henes 2011
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This was Henry's effort to sanction his divorce of Catherine of Aragon for not producing a male heir that lived beyond infancy.
Sister Mary Ann Walsh: Will President Obama Continue To Support Conscience Rights? Sister Mary Ann Walsh 2011
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“Those who still loved the old queen, Catherine of Aragon, and blamed my mother for my father setting her aside?”
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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“Those who still loved the old queen, Catherine of Aragon, and blamed my mother for my father setting her aside?”
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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