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Henry VIII of England had one acknowledged illegitimate child, and is suspected to have fathered several others by his various mistresses. Henry acknowledged his paternity of Henry FitzRoy (15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536), the son of his mistress Elizabeth Blount, and granted him a dukedom; FitzRoy married Lady Mary Howard, but had no issue.
Arms of Sir Henry Fitzroy, KG, at the time of his installation as a knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Henry FitzRoy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset (c. 15 June 1519 – 23 July 1536) was the son of Henry VIII of England and his mistress Elizabeth Blount, and the only child born out of wedlock whom Henry acknowledged.
While Henry and his first wife were unsuccessful at producing a male heir to the throne, Henry had a healthy son by Blount, her first pregnancy and her only child by the king. [13] On 15 June 1519, Blount bore the King an illegitimate son who was named Henry FitzRoy, later created Duke of Richmond and Somerset and Earl of Nottingham.
Blount gave birth in June 1519 to Henry's illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy. [32] The young boy was made Duke of Richmond in June 1525 in what some thought was one step on the path to his eventual legitimisation. [38] FitzRoy married Mary Howard in 1533, but died childless three years later. [39]
Elizabeth or Bessie Blount, mother of his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, to whom Henry VIII gave the dukedoms of Somerset and Richmond. Fitzroy, which means son of the king was acknowledged by Henry and there was talk in the 1530s that the King, who then had no male heir, would legitimise Fitzroy. [1] Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn.
Notes by John Gough Nichols, showing the effect of the will of Henry VIII on the succession to the throne of England. The constitutional standing of Henry VIII's last will depended on the Third Succession Act that received royal assent in 1544. Section VI of the act provides that the line of succession, if not continued by the king's children ...
Contemporary rumours stated that Carey was an illegitimate child of Henry VIII. Some ten years after the Carey was born, John Hales, vicar of Isleworth, remarked that he had met a "young Master Carey," whom some monks believed to be the king's son. However, as Eric Ives has pointed out, the vicar was hostile towards the Boleyn family and may ...
[14] [15] Sir Robert Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia is the source of the claim that Thomas Perrot's father, Sir John Perrot, was an illegitimate son of Henry VIII. [3] After Perrot's death in 1594, his widow, Dorothy, married Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland. [16]