ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Castizo, Morisco, Middle Ages

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

Catherine of aragon is the sister of juana la loca & the 2nd daughter of ferdinand and. Catherine will become the aunt of emperor charles. Henry vii wants arthur to marry the spanish princess for poliical reasons (henry vii need allied since he made enemies becoming king) Prince arthur and princess catherine of aragon and married, but one year later they have no children and arthur dies. In 1509, prince henry marries catherine of aragon. His father dies shortly ater the wedding and prince henry becomes king henry viii. Henry viii pushed for the pope to sign divorce papers with catherine so he can marry. Anne boleyn since catherine can"t have more children and he wants a son to coninue the thrown and anna boleyn (originally his mistress) happened to be pregnant with his child. As a response, catherine wrote to emperor charles (her nephew) to convince the. Pope to not do it (charles and the pope were close).