The youngest child of [Ferdinand II]? of Spain and Isabella I of Castile. Married Arthur, the son of Henry VII of England in 1501. Arthur died in 1502 and she was betrothed to the future Henry VIII, she married him in 1509.
Her first child was stillborn in 1510. Prince Henry was born in 1511 but died after 52 days. Catherine then had a miscarriage, followed by another short-lived son. In February 1516, she gave birth a daughter named Mary (later Queen Mary I of England). There was another miscarriage in 1518.
Disappointed at the lack of a male heir, Henry VIII order the Archbishop of Canterbury to divorce them in March 1534, initiating a split with Catholicism. He proceeded to marry one of her ladies [Anne Boleyn]?. Catherine refused to acknowledge the divorce and took the issue to the law, but she lost and was forced to leave the Royal Court.
She died at Kimbolton? in 1536 and was buried at Peterborough Abbey with the ceremony due to a Princess Dowager, not a Queen.
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