The youngest surviving daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and first wife of King Henry VIII, she was sent to England to marry Arthur, the frail Prince of Wales, in 1501 at the age of 16. She was widowed less than six months later. She then married Arthur's younger brother Henry shortly after his coronation in 1509.

On 29th January 1536, Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII’s first wife, was buried at Peterborough Abbey, now Peterborough Cathedral. The annulment of her marriage to Henry VIII in 1533 had led to her being denied the denied of Queen and being given the title of Dowager Princess of Wales, referring to her first marriage to Henry’s older brother ...

On January 29 1536, Catherine of Aragon was buried at Peterborough Abbey (later cathedral). She had requested to be buried at a monastery belonging to the Franciscan Observant Friars but this request was turned down as the ‘friars’ convents no longer existed’ (Tremlett, p. 426).

2014年1月29日 · Catherine of Aragon, first wife of Henry VIII, died on 7th January 1536 and was buried as the Dowager Princess of Wales, the title which she herself had never recognised, at Peterborough’s Benedictine abbey on 29th January 1536.

2018年4月6日 · After suffering for many years as King Henry VIII tried to extricate himself from his marriage, Catherine of Aragon died at Kimbolton Castle on January 7, 1536 at the age of fifty. King Henry himself chose Peterborough Abbey as Catherine’s final resting place. He ordered that she be buried with all the honors due to…

2019年1月29日 · Before dying on January 7, Catherine had sent Henry a final letter and signed it “Catherine the Quene.” Her burial was Henry’s chance to refute that and get the last word: he gave her only the pomp and honors due to her as Dowager Princess of Wales.

2023年7月22日 · After a mass was held, Catherine’s body was buried ‘in a grave at the lowest step of the high altar, over which they put a simple black cloth’. The Queen remains buried at Peterborough Abbey. Katherine is remembered with services and festivals at the Cathedral on the anniversary of her internment.

Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, historical Spanish: Catharina, [1] ... Grave of Catherine of Aragon in Peterborough Cathedral. In recent years, the historian Alison Weir covered her life extensively in her biography The Six Wives of Henry VIII, first published in 1991.

Henry VIII decided to bury Catherine of Aragon at Peterborough Abbey, now Peterborough Cathedral. It was a suitably grand enough building yet out of the way to avoid attracting attention. When she was buried, it was not with the full honours attributed to the Queen of England but instead as Dowager Princess of Wales.

2020年4月10日 · The tomb of Catherine of Aragon (1485-1536 CE), first wife of Henry VIII of England (r. 1509-1547 CE). Peterborough Cathedral, England.