Henry VIII
1491 – 1547
English

King. His appetites, corpulence, and seven wives became legendary.

Contemporaries
1437–1492Elizabeth Woodville
1475–1530Thomas Wolsey
?–1536William Tyndale
1508–1568William Turner
1517–1547Henry Surrey
1475–1535Lambert Simnel
1500–1555Nicholas Ridley
1512–1548Catherine Parr
1504–1575Matthew Parker
1478–1535Sir Thomas More
1516–1558Mary I, Tudor
1544–1631Thomas Hobson
1490–1546Sir Thomas Elyot
1533–1603Elizabeth I
1540–1596Sir Francis Drake
1485–1540Thomas Cromwell
1540–1581St. Edmund Campion
1545–1626Nicholas Breton
1545–1613Sir Thomas Bodley
1506–1534Elizabeth Barton