once again Henry's advisors were urging him to get married. This time he picked Anne of Cleves, who was a Flemish woman. When she was traveling to England, there was a proxy marriage, which meant that she was already treated like a Queen. When she arrived, Henry did not want to marry her. But he thought of his country and did anyway. A year later he glady found out that she was already betrothed to a Duke. So guess what Henry did? He divorced her. But Anne of Cleves stayed in England. The only reason he married Anne was because his advisors were making him break witht eh Catholic Church.
Queen Elizabeth loved music, plays and art. In fact, one of her best friends was William Shakespeare. Once she was crowned Queen, she didn't have much time for books, but read every second she could spare. Books back then were very expensive because books had to be hand written over because they didn't have a printing press. But whenever there was a feast, she would make sure there was a play. Most of the time she would have Shakespeare do it.
Elizabeth was also the last Tudor. She never married. But her sister, Mary's husband offered to marry her. She did not want to. Elizabeth had many offers for marriage. But Elizabeth turned them all down. Her advisors kept bringing more suitors for marriage. Finally, she met someone she liked very much. And she wanted to marry him, but now her advisors said no to this suitors.
Catherine was the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. When she turned sixteen, she married Arthur Tudor. But six months later he died of the "sweating sickness".
Catherine wanted to go home but left the decision up to her father. King Ferdinand decided she should marry again to Arthur's younger brother, Henry. Henry was also looking for a wife. Soon they were married. They had one child...Mary. But several years later he realized he needed a male heir.
After being married to Catherine for 18 years, he wanted a divorce. He asked the Pope, but he said no. Years past and Henry begged him to grant the divorce. But the Pope kept saying no. Finally, Henry got mad and made himself the head of the Church of England and soon divorced Catherine. Catherine's historic secret was that she was married to Arthur.
Anne was a young girl when King Henry and Catherine of Aragon were married. In fact, she was one of Catherine's ladys-in-waiting. But when Catherine was divorced, King Henry married Anne.
Anne gave Henry one child.....a baby girl named Elizabeth. Henry took Princess Mary's title and made Elizabeth the new heir. Anne made Mary work in Elizabeth's nursery as a servant. Anne wasn't all that nice to Mary. Later, Henry was still waiting for a son from Anne. But she never had any more living children. So instead of divorcing her, he accused her of many things (probably not true). Somehow she was found guilty and was beheaded.
Ten days after Anne Boelyn was beheaded, Henry married again. Her name was Jane Seymoure. One year later she finally gave Henry what he wanted....a baby son. They named him Prince Edward. He was baptized in October 1537. But Jane died of an infection the next week. Jane Seymoure's historic secret is that she was never officially crowned Queen. Historians believe that Henry never crowned her Queen until he got what he wanted. And when he did get it, Jane died. He married two years later.
Bach lived in Germany and had been in a family of musicians. They sang songs at weddings and special occasions. At a very early age his parents died. He went to live with his step-brother and learned the organ very well. He wanted harder music, but his brother didn't want him to have it. So Sebastian sneaked in the night to play harder music. He moved out at 15. He spent a long time playing the organ, violin and other musical instruments. In 1703, he started out as a choir master and did other work at the church. He married his second cousin, Margaret Bach, and she gave him four children.
Sir Walter Raleigh was related to the great Sir Humphrey Gilbert. They were step-brothers. Sir Gilbert had gone on an expedition before Sir Walter Raleigh. The Queen would not allow Sir Walter to go, but he got the ships and provisions ready. They headed out Florida when they came upon Roanoke Island.
When they landed they met friendly Indians. But soon after fights broke out. The Indians starved the Englishmen. Finally a ship came and offered to give them a lift, but they refused. Over a year later, the ship came again, but the English were not there. No one knows what became of them.
The first baby born in America was named Virginia Dare. She was named after the Queen.
The Spanish quietly sailed up in French territory in Florida, but they were spotted.As the leader of the French called out “Who goes there?” the Spanish leader told him who he was.His name was Pedro Menendez.And then Pedro asked the question “Are you Catholic or Lutheran?”The French yelled out, “Lutheran!”Pedro Menendez had come to behead all the Lutherans because he thought is was God’s will (wasn’t he dumb?).
After Pedro told the French this, they were startled and started to quarrel with him, but then fled seeing the Spanish ship coming very close.Pedro chased them around everywhere until war broke out and the French were killed.
In the 1500’s a group of men set out for America to look for Gold and the fountain of
youth.When they arrived they found nothing they were looking for.Instead they
befriended Indians.They decided to make a fort, but 30 men were the only ones at work
with it.The men left back to France and came back and forth bringing food.But after a
couple times, they never came back.The Indian chief gave them what they needed.
Since they were starving, they built a ship and set out for France.They were so hungry
they ate each other.
My family went to Helton Creek Falls, which is not far from Vogel State Park in Blairsville, Ga. We had a lot of fun hiking through the woods to find it.
