Catherine+Howard

Catherine Howard was born in 1521 to Lord Edmund Howard and Joyce Culpeper in London England. Catherine and her younger brother Thomas grew up a poor family living in Norflock. When she was 19 when she married her cousin Anne Boylen's ex husband Henry VIII on July 28, 1540. She was his 5th wife, and w hen she married him, the king was 49 years old and at the point in his life where he was unable to walk due to his leg injury and being extremely overweight. Despite the king's problems she was able to bring him back to life and make things a little more exciting and he showered her with gifts and affection in return. He referred to her as a bushy rose without a thorn or the jewel of womanhood. Then the king found out about her affair, along with being jealous of all of the interest she attracted from other men. Their marriage only lasted 18 months because she was flirtatious with other men and was arrested for adultery then beheaded on February 13th 1542 on tower green then buried at the Chapel of St. Peter and Vincula at the Tower of London.

Her significance to England included queen, one of Henry's many wives and divorces,and being the wife that he actually may have loved but she gave him a taste of his own medicine by cheating on him most likely making even more crazy. As well as her relations to other high members of society in England such as her first cousin Anne Boylen and others details like where and how she died.