Born in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Ancestors 
Daughter of Fernando (Aragón) de Aragón
and Isabella (Castilla) de Castilla y León
Wife of
Arthur Tudor KG KB
— married
14 Nov 1501 in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England
Wife of
Henry (Tudor) of England KG
— married
11 Jun 1509 (to 23 May 1533) in Grey Friars Church, Greenwich, Kent, England
Mother of
Unnamed Infant Tudor, Henry Tudor, Unnamed Infant Tudor, Henry Tudor, Mary (Tudor) of England and Unnamed Infant Tudor
Died
at age 50
in Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire, England
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Biography
Catherine (Aragón) of Aragón is Notable.
Although she had a stronger claim to the English throne than Henry VII himself,[1] Queen Catherine's impression on people, was such that even her enemy, Thomas Cromwell, said of her If not for her sex, she could have defied all the heroes of History.[2]
She successfully appealed for the lives of the rebels involved in the Evil May Day for the sake of their families. Furthermore, Queen Catherine garnered widespread admiration by starting an extensive program for the relief of the poor.[3] She was also a patron of Renaissance humanism, and a friend of the great scholars Erasmus of Rotterdam and Saint Thomas More.
Vitals
- English: Catherine of Aragon
- Castilian: Catalina de Aragón
- Aragonese: Catarina d'Aragón
- b.16 Dec 1485 Archbishop's Palace in Alcalá de Henares near Madrid (at night)
- bur. Peterborough Cathedral[4]
- Buried at Peterborough Cathedral, Northamptonshire
Titles
- 1501: Princess of Wales
- 1507: Ambassador[5]
- 1509: Queen of England
Early Life
- Great-great-grandmother: Philippa of Lancaster
Family
- m.1 1501 Arthur, Prince of Wales (20 Sep 1486 – 02 Apr 1502). No issue.
- m.2 1509 Henry VIII. Annulled 23 May 1533.[9]
- Henry Tudor, Duke of Cornwall (01 Jan 1511 - 22 Feb 1511)
At the start of Catherine’s reign, her Ladies in Waiting included:
- Elizabeth Stafford, sister of the Duke of Buckingham, recently married to Robert Radcliffe, Lord Fitzwalter (later Earl of Sussex);
- Anne Stafford, sister of the Duke of Buckingham, a widow, recently married to Sir George Hastings, heir to the Earl of Huntingdon; was to become Henry VIII’s mistress
- Margaret Scrope, wife of Edmund de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, in the Tower since 1506 because of his Yorkist connection (the Earl of Suffolk was executed 1513);
- Elizabeth Scrope, second wife of John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, Lord Admiral*;
- Agnes Tilney, Countess of Surrey, married to Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey (later Duke of Norfolk), Treasurer*;
- Anne Hastings, daughter of Sir William Hastings, married to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, Lord Steward*;
- Mary Say, Lady Essex, married to Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex, Captain of the Gentlemen Pensioners*;
- Anne, sister of Sir George Hastings, married to Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby.
Sources
- ↑ Wikipedia: Catherine of Aragón
- ↑ Chapuys, Eustace (Imperial Ambassador) (1533). Calendar of State Papers, Spanish IV (p737)
- ↑ Deutscher & Bietenholz, p. 283
- ↑ User ID: 2B40AD1E4FF1D711873600C09F01FA1B907A. Royal Genealogies Part 19. Aragon-83 on Sep 16, 2011 by Theresa Reynolds.
- ↑ First female ambassador in European history.
- ↑ Catherine was named after her great-grandmother
- ↑ Catherine's 3rd cousin was her father-in-law, Henry VII. Her 4th cousin was her mother-in-law Elizabeth of York. As such, Catherine actually had a stronger claim to the English throne then Henry VIII.
- ↑ Youngest surviving child of seven
- ↑ Grounds: Levitical law. As wife of Henry VIII's brother, marriage was uncanonical and incestuous; Wikipedia: May 23
- ↑ Mary was born with congenital syphilis. See: Ashley, Mike (2008). A Brief History of British Kings and Queens. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers. Print.
- "Henry VIII: June 1534, 1-5," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 7, 1534, ed. James Gairdner (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1883), 294-305. British History Online, accessed August 10, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol7/pp294-305.
- "Preface," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 10, January-June 1536, ed. James Gairdner (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1887), i-xlviii. British History Online, accessed February 14, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol10/i-xlviii.
- Nicolas, Nicholas Harris. Testamenta Vetusta (Nichols & Son, London, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 36-7
- Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. V pp. 207-208, 211-215
- Wikipedia: Catherine of Aragon
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Per Wikipedia (I know, I know), her first name is Catalina in Spanish. There may be a way to double the aka to read:
aka Catherine of Aragon aka Catalina de Aragón
The 2= hed under the TC should also be changed to Catherine of Aragon, & while you have the edit tab open, you could change the comma before fn [1] to a full stop.
Thanks much.