"Did Henry VIII Suffer from Head Trauma?" Topic

"It's a question that pretty much anyone looking at the arc of his life ends up asking: what happened to Henry VIII? From a hugely-admired prince, to a widely-feared king, the transformation in Henry's behaviour and outlook would seem like the stuff of fiction, but for the fact that history bears out how real it was. Just how did the champion of the Catholic church come to be the notorious killer of queens? Researchers from the Behavioral Neurology Unit at the Yale School of Medicine think they may have the answer: traumatic head injury…."
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Armand

Why did Henry VIII divorce/execute his wives? No male child.*
Head injuries might explain other behaviors, especially at the very end of his life.
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*His third wife had a sickly male child and they died on their own.

Henry's health seems to have been the subject of much speculation. Jousting certainly resulted in a head injury, he also suffered a leg wound which resulted in recurrent ulceration. I have also seen it suggested that he had some kind of genetic disease, which was possibly why his sons were still born or died early, and that he may have suffered from Cushing's disease. It has been suggested that this latter ilness could also have caused the weight gain and irrational behaviour noted in his later years.
The Tudors were obviously a doomed dynasty.

He only executed two wives one of whom was inconvenient and the other plainly guilty.

And it seems like those around him were more likely to suffer from head trauma, or neck trauma

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Armand