Katherine of Aragon
(1485-1536) Katherine of Aragon was the first wife of
Henry VIII and the
mother of Mary Tudor, also known as "Bloody Mary".Katherine and Henry were married for 24 years until Henry divorced her for
Anne Boleyn; Henry's desire for an heir had led him to defy the Catholic church and would lead to the English Reformation.However much prowess that Katherine showed as a ruler, however humanitarian that she was, however popular that she was among her people, it all came to nothing as her six pregnancies produced only one surviving child, a daughter, and her looks were ravaged by time, stress, and constant pregnancy.