I don't know what he is done.But i know a story from Mehmet II.One of his favorites,an italian woman named Stella,wanted escape from harem.She bribed the protector of harem.(i dont know the proper term for it,he is,who has entrance right to harem.Only sultan and this protector can enter harem)
They both tried to flee,but they are caught.Here is Sultan Punishment:
Protector is hanged.And Stella...
Her both arms and legs bound an horse.(4 horses
)Then the horses runs.
Maybe it is too cruel.
That Mehmet is not as nice as he looks, eh? Henry VIII was content with beheading wives who cheated on him. He did it to two of them: Anne Boleyn (who was probably innocent) and Catherine Howard.
Anne Boleyn did not give Henry an heir, only a worthless daughter called Elizabeth. Of course, Henry realized that a mere girl like Elizabeth would never amount to anything, and he had clapped his eyes on another woman (Jane Seymour) who he thought would give him the male heir he obsessively wanted, so he let his henchmen manufacture a lot of charges of adultery against Anne. He also had them declare Elizabeth a bastard so she couldn't inherit the throne.
Elizabeth's older half-sister Mary had already been declared ineligible to the throne after her mother Catherine of Aragon's marriage to Henry had been annulled; Henry had to enact the Reformation for that to be possible, because the Pope opposed the annulment. The reason for the divorce was that Henry had made Anne pregnant, hoped for a male heir and wanted to marry her. All the same, Henry was technically in the right because Catherine of Aragon was his brother's widow, so Henry's marriage to her was against canonical law and when he had married her, he first had to get the Pope's dispensation for it. The Pope was virtually a prisoner of Catherine of Aragon's nephew, the Emperor Charles, so he had consented to that. For the same reason, he opposed the annulment, so it became a Protestant one instead. And of course, once the annulment had been enacted, Mary technically became a bastard.
After having had Anne Boleyn beheaded, Henry married Jane, who gave birth to the coveted son. Jane died at childbirth. Henry then married the German Princess Anne of Cleves, but she was so ugly that he divorced her, claiming the marriage was unconsummated. (Apparently, Anne of Cleves was rather relieved, because Henry was not a very handsome man any longer, so the lack of attraction was mutual.) Then Fate or someone must have decided to give Henry the ****old's horns he seemed to be claiming, so the next woman he married, Catherine Howard, did indeed cheat on him and was duly beheaded. Then he married Catherine Parr, who took care of him in his old age and was a nice stepmother to Henry's three children.
Henry's son with Jane Seymour was named Edward. He succeeded to the throne at the age of ten, though of course he didn't rule; the Earl of Northumberland did in his name. Edward was sickly and died at the age of sixteen; before his death, Northumberland had persuaded him to name his cousin once removed, Jane Grey (granddaughter of Henry's sister and married to Northumberland's son) heir to the throne. But Mary's followers wouldn't have any of that, so they rebelled and Mary ended on the throne. Then poor Jane Grey was executed after a *Protestant* rebellion which ensued. Being a fierce Catholic, Mary persecuted and executed Protestants, whereas under Northumberland (ruling in Edward's name) it was Catholics who had been persecuted.
Well, then Mary died and England got that insignificant girl Elizabeth as a ruler. In fact, she ruled for many years, as you know, and not without distinction. She had barely escaped being executed by her half-sister a couple of times; there were lots of people who had liked her mother or who disliked being ruled by the Catholic Mary. As the Civilopedia says, Elizabeth wanted to pursue a policy of religious tolerance, but there were several Catholic conspiracies against her life, which resulted in more people being executed. Still, there were no church tribunals or burnings at the stake, and nobody was executed just for their religion.
Oh, dear - did you find this confusing? I believe many generations of English school children have too. Here is a brief summary of Henrian wifery:
1. Catherine of Aragon, Mary's mother (divorced)
2. Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth's mother (executed)
3. Jane Seymour, Edward's mother (died in childbirth)
4. Anne of Cleves (divorced)
5. Catherine Howard (executed)
6. Catherine Parr (survived Henry)
And here is a short memory tag used by English teachers:
Divorced, beheaded, died;
Divorced, beheaded, survived.
Here comes an extremely hard question: Who is the real bastard in this story?
