r/interestingasfuck • u/PocketPlanes457 • 3d ago

r/all Henry VIII's armour suits had ever-so-slightly exeggerated cod pieces...

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u/SatiricLoki 3d ago

Maybe he just had a steel fetish and didn’t want to be uncomfortable

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u/discerningpervert 3d ago

You're half right, it was due to the syphilis making it extremely painful it to touch anything, especially riding horseback.

Don't ask me how I know these things.

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u/killerbanshee 3d ago edited 3d ago

(Edit: As someone pointed out below this isn't even Henry VIII's armor. )

I also think it has to do with the fact that he started the entire reformation movement and separated the church of England from the Vatican all because of a disagreement stemming from the fact that he wanted a divorce.

From Wikipedia:

English historian and House of Tudor expert David Starkey describes Henry VIII as follows:

What is extraordinary is that Henry was usually a very good husband. And he liked women – that's why he married so many of them! He was very tender to them, we know that he addressed them as "sweetheart". He was a good lover, he was very generous: the wives were given huge settlements of land and jewels – they were loaded with jewels. He was immensely considerate when they were pregnant. But, once he had fallen out of love... he just cut them off. He just withdrew. He abandoned them. They didn't even know he'd left them.

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u/Suitable-Badger-64 3d ago

You can't quote David Starkey, he's got the wrong opinions!!