Nothing about a individual but learning about how bad the defects got with trying to keep the blood pure. Absolutely insane and these barely held together peeps ran empires.
One of the scandalous thing I ever heard about one of the current Kings in my country is one of them is addicted to ICE (some sort of drug) and he had to go to rehab and there he met a Russian woman and fell in love, got married secretly (we found out about it eventually), she got pregnant, and then he divorced her (when she was still pregnant) lol
Henry's out of control temper only came on after his horse fell on him during a jousting accident, after which he was unconscious for a number of hours. So, he had a pretty bad head injury. Its not uncommon for people's personality to change drastically after such a head injury. His weight only increased after said accident.
He also had a poor diet...too much meat and not enough vegetables and fruits, and he also had that wound on his leg that would not heal. And he smelled so bad that people who were not even near him could smell him as he approached. This link is to the video about his health. They did a whole forensic examination of what information could be gathered from records contemporary to his time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3ofdjTzZRm8.html
He also had a leg wound that never healed, add the bloodletting just about every day to alleviate the infection in the nauseatingly gaseous, toxic and nauseatingly smelling wound meant he couldn't work out or play tennis anymore like he used to. His leg wound and bloodletting gave him 24/7 chronic pain to boot. But one thing that never changed was his big appetite. He loved food. add that to his traumatic brain injury and his forever love of food and bammm. He's toast.
Diabetes, two traumatic head injuries, an infected and possibly gangrenous leg wound and a shitty diet do bad things to a person in addition to running a country and struggling to produce a male heir
@@andresramirez8948 I'm cracking up at the text "u up??" he'd totally do that too if they had texting then 🤣 he'd find his next wife on match.com or MonarchSingles.com
they bloody well are, the reasons for execution are barbaric in nature, so they are murders indirectly caused for his whole spiel that we need king not queen thing, also by the fact he technically cheated on catherine but other european monarchs also did that a lot.
Woop Woop what else would you call what he did to those innocent people his own wife included I understand having to defend your own life or country Henry went beyond that if he did not like you he would kill you or if he got bored or angry with a wife he would chop her head off look what he did to Catherine Howard not only murders her but he has someone pour a chemical all over her body to make it dissolve as if she never existed
One of my ancestors was a Godson of Queen Elizabeth 1. I'm an American, but many of my ancestors are from England and Scotland. Henry probably has ancestors all around the globe at this point.
The term "eavesdropping" came from Henry XIII court. He placed statues hanging on the eaves of his great hall as a way of letting people know that he had ears everywhere. The people started calling them eavesdroppers.
@@nuerodol1147 yes. and they actually had tubes running from the open mouths to the other side of the wall and were used to listen to people who were not aware
Imagine a timeline where Henry's brother lives to become king and Henry goes on to become a bishop and either doesn't marry at all or gets kicked out for trying to
@@blugaledoh2669 in those days, the firstborn son was heir to the throne, and any following sons either went into the military or the clergy. Henry VII intended his second son to become a priest, but Arthur's premature death gave us the psychopath known as Henry VIII
Henry was very atheletic in his day . Tne accident left him with a head injury and his leg was permanently damaged . After that he was never the same . His health suffered and he became the huge gross man he was famous for
for a guy who loved animals he really was cruel to those horses they had to carry that tub of lard around...... would I get beheaded for saying that during his day ? hmmm : /
In Henry's life he suffered two serious head injuries. Some historians, doctors and scientist believe that Henry may have suffered 1 to 2 traumatic brain injuries when he was younger that resulted in his personality change as records showed that he was more even tempered when he was young (based on records) before said injuries and some of the traits he had aline with some of the symptoms of a traumatic brain injury; such as poor memory, bouts of anger, lack of impulse control, impotency and etc.
@@Kerosene.Dreams I blame the gout more on his poor diet as he ate heavy portions of meat or fats and hardly ever touched his vegtables as he saw them as peasant food.
MASC I have heard different evidence and besides he was mean to his first wife and Daughter at the end of their first marriage way before his accident he beheaded Anne because she would not put up with his new apparent affair with Jane Seymour
It absolutely applies to Henry VIII though 😂 Thomas More was one of his best friends and one of the closest people to him and Henry still beheaded him because of Anne Boleyn and religion.
No mention of the significant jousting accident that led to a never-healed leg wound, a hard knock to the head, his obesity, and mercurial temperament?
That’s exactly what I was thinking. The claim that Henry has syphilius is common, but the genetic anger issue argument is news to me. Not sure how that could be substantiated, but Henry’s jousting days certainly took a toll on him, especially his leg, which was constantly painful and had to be drained on occasion. And constant pain would certainly have put him on a short fuse.
Agree. He was unconscious for several hours after that accident, long enough for the entire court to fear he was gonna die. He eventually woke up but that says to me, he had a major concussion or brain injury. AND yes, add to that the leg injury that never fully healed and actually kind of rotted thanks to the quack "medicine" they practiced at that time. His "doctors" kept picking at the wound and opening it and draining it etc etc. so much so that it never healed (I know, gross!) So yeah, guy wasn't only brain damaged but was in constant pain and probably rendered immobile and disabled to a certain extent after that. Historians now think that's what explains the change in his personality & temperament, and the paranoia, erratic judgment & horrible decision-making that he eventually became known for. Apparently before that, he was actually a nice, jovial, healthy guy that everyone liked especially the women. So yeah, too bad!
Good point. No modern medicine. No modern diagnosis, antibiotics, or surgery. What would it be like (back then) to survive a wound that never healed properly? Especially if surrounded by shady people, pushing shady advice?
2:59 Henry VIII's mental illness was very different from Charles VI of France and George III of Great Britain's mental illness so while interesting probably isn't true. The brain injury he got in his 1536 jousting match is more likely to be the root cause as there's a shift in Henry VIII's behavior from the accident as he became increasingly cruel and angry afterward. Henry was also said to be unconscious for a really long time after the accident which further supports the idea Henry had brain damage. I don't really know whether or not syphilis played a part though. 7:43 Elizabeth I died in 1603, not 1601
There was a known treatment for venereal disease at the time and Henry wasn't given it, though other kings were, so syphilis probably wasn't the cause of his problems.
@@votewaldo9876 She also killed 20.000 Catholics, including Irish woman and children. I would suggest Victoria as their best monarch, she ruled over 25% of the world and help grant Catholics their freedom back.
@@herodotus945 By the time Victoria Came to power UK was an established constitutional monarchy. in which the sovereign held relatively little direct political power. You can't possibly compare Elizabeth to Victoria, a puppet monarch.
The Other Boelyn Girl was a great movie! It got me interested in researching the Tudors and learning more about England's history. If it draws people into the story behind the history then it's done its job. I guess I'm one of the 5.☺
She did not slept with her brother. He could not carry it out. Spies everywhere who ratted that her brother came to her room..Geesh..I read the book and seen the movie (twice). Really, who knows what really happened. All told lies, even her own father and uncle.Her mother was the one who had the money and prestige.Her father was a nobody trying to move up the ranks to be part of the kings line of somebody's..He failed. Got his own children killed trying to be somebody.
The main reason Henry gained so much weight was an injury apparently. Some people think the reason he was so unstable was due to a head injury he got from falling off his horse. His 2nd wife, Anne Boleyn, was pregnant at the time and ended up losing the baby from stress while he was in a coma. The baby would have been his heir and history might have been a lot different
It's true that Henry broke away from the Pope and Rome, but he still considered himself a Catholic. The Protestant reformation came about during his son Edward VI and later re-established under Elizabeth I. Queen Mary aligned herself to Rome during her reign, but when Elizabeth I became queen, she again broke with Rome and re-established the Anglican Church.
@@mikesaunders4775 yes! Wish more ppl understood this! I'm a Protestant but they both considered themselves faithful Roman Catholics to their dying days!
@Batman The Dark Knight So now you're keeping up the streets of Gotham safe _and_ patrolling RU-vid comments for grammatical errors. Do you ever sleep? 🙃
One of the things about his being hoisted onto a horse Henry also had a bad leg. It was badly injured during a tournament, I think it was the same one where he got his severe head injury, all of which essentially crippled him so there was more than just his weight keeping him from mounting a horse.
Such a treat to watch these videos. History lessons were never this funny, interesting and factual all at the same time! 😄👍 Keep up the good work teamWeird History! 👍👍
The Showtime series ‘The Tudors’ is my all time favorite Henry V111 rendition showing most of his entire rein from his first wife Kathryn to his death... If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend it... (Just a warning there is a lot of sex going on throughout the series)
From a wide array of research over the years, I find that Henry the 8th at first was a Man's Man that was very athletic and charming until some accidents came to define him in his later years. During his Jousting matches this one opponent managed to lance his spear into Henry's visor where a splinter of wood made its way into his eye and beyond making the King adopt a hellish mean streak that he would carry throughout the rest of his life. He changed the religious norm in England to protestant to pass a law of divorce to serve him in order to kill a few of his wives and marry others finally when an infection in his leg left him in agonizing pain and meaner than ever, it did not heal and he died as a result. I believe that if Henry had not suffered these injuries, he may have been a fine King to his court and England as a whole.
He did not start to “chunk up” after 40. He was still incredibly athletic at the age of 45, at which point he had a big jousting accident. If you can’t get that right, how are we to trust anything you profess?
@@silvergust Well that depends, do you want fiction, or history? There are numerous first hand accounts of Henry’s health status and weight problems. No we weren’t there, but by collating sources we can have a pretty accurate idea of how things were. To get something like this wrong shows that this channel cannot be trusted. If they got that so wrong, why should we believe anything they say? We may as well be listening to fiction. If you can’t understand why that is a problem, then why are you even interested in history? Just go and read fiction instead. You must be awfully sensitive to get so upset by my comment.
You're incorrect about Queen Elizabeth II being descended from Mary Boleyn, Anne Boleyns sister. She is descended from Henry VIIIs sister Margaret Tudor! 🙄
charleywhaley EII is descended from both Mary Boleyn and Margaret Tudor! Mary through her mother queen Elizabeth the queen mother and Margaret through her father king George VI
4:37 That just reminded me of that one scene in The Tudors- Anne: George! Give it back! George: Aw! Look! He even drew a little heart between the A and the H!
I haven’t seen the movie BUT “The Other Boleyn Girl” is one of my most favorite books in the entire world, I know it’s fictitious, but I just love the historical era it takes place in and idk I just think it’s a wonderful book!!
Most current historians of the Tudor Era no longer suggest STDs or traditional mental illness as the cause of Henry's instability. He seemed fairly stable until a jousting match in which he was unconscious for an extended period of time and was, initially, thought to be dead. He clearly suffered a concussion, if not an outright skull fracture. Today, it's thought he either suffered frontal lobe damage during the accident or suffered from some post concussion syndrome.
@@WeirdHistory The first germ warfare was throwing dead people & animals over the walls of castles with that sling shot thingie. They would also put poop on their arrow heads, in Civil War days troops did the same on their bullets to help bring on deadly infections. It's a sad and terrifying fact that some ships in Peal Harbor had men trapped aboard with no way to communicate to the out side world stuck in their bunk areas, with no food of water and very limited air to breath. They were found playing cards, some in their bunks, and some were banging on the side of the ship hope for a rescue that never came. Of course for years that was covered up by the Brass. 😢😭
Fun fact: through his father Henry VII,he had links to Henry V. After Henry V died his wife Catherine of Valois married a man named Owain Tudor. One of their sons married Margaret of Beaufort and they had Henry Tudor who became Henry VII.
Whenever I see video titles like "Strange Facts That You Didn't Know About Henry VIII" I'm like, "Dude, I know 'em all" But thank you Weird History, for I actually didn't know the facts mentioned in your video. Great job!
@@michaeldiekmann6494 I guess you're right. The fact that prominent families encouraged that behavior for their children, no matter the consequences, is disgusting!
That is definitely a lie. All people hunting changed horses regularly,they never rode them into the ground,horses were too important,particularly the war horse
You forgot his beard tax in, I believe, 1535, which his daughter, apparently, reinstated after his death. That's why I listened to this, as I was wondering what you had to say about it.
