„Meine Augen verlangen nur nach dir. Lebwohl.“
Letzte Worte aus ihrem letzten Brief an ihren Mann Heinrich VIII. von England
Original lat.: "Oculi mei te solum desiderant. Vale."
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Katharina von Aragón
Geburtstag: 16. Dezember 1485
Todesdatum: 7. Januar 1536
Katharina von Aragon , war als erste Frau Heinrichs VIII. Königin von England und Mutter der späteren Königin Maria I. Tudor. Sie war das jüngste Kind Ferdinands II. von Aragón und Isabellas I. von Kastilien und somit Urururenkelin Eduards III. von England. Ihr Lebensmotto war “humble and loyal” . Über ihre Schwester Johanna war sie die Tante der deutschen Kaiser Karl V. und Ferdinand I.
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„Doctors! You know yourself, without the help of any doctors that your case has no foundation! I care not a straw for your Doctors! For every Doctor and Lawyer that upholds your case I could find a thousand that would find our marriage good and valid!“
Alison Weir (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0802136834, p. 213.
„My most dear lord, King and husband, / The hour of my death now drawing on, the tender love I owe you forceth me, my case being such, to commend myself to you, and to put you in remembrance with a few words of the health and safeguard of your soul which you ought to prefer before all worldly matters, and before the care and pampering of your body, for the which you have cast me into many calamities and yourself into many troubles. For my part, I pardon you everything, and I wish to devoutly pray God that He will pardon you also. For the rest, I commend unto you our daughter Mary, beseeching you to be a good father unto her, as I have heretofore desired. I entreat you also, on behalf of my maids, to give them marriage portions, which is not much, they being but three. For all my other servants I solicit the wages due them, and a year more, lest they be unprovided for. Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. / Katharine the Quene.“
Sharon Turner (1828) The History of England from the Earliest Period to the Death of Elizabeth, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
„My tribulations are so great, my life so disturbed by the plans daily invented to further the King's wicked intention, the surprises which the King gives me, with certain persons of his council, are so mortal, and my treatment is what God knows, that it is enough to shorten ten lives, much more mine.“
Joanna Denny (2006) Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306814749, p. 175.
„Did I not tell you that whenever you argue with the Queen she is sure to have the upper hand?! I see that one fine morning you will succumb to her reasoning and cast me off!“
Anne Boleyn — quoted in Alison Weir (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0802136834, p. 213.
„Nature wronged her in making her a woman. But for her sex she could have surpassed all the heros of history.“
Thomas Cromwell — quoted in Alison Weir (1991). The Six Wives of Henry VIII. ISBN 0802136834, p. 197
