Catherineof Aragon

Cath·e·rine of Ar·a·gon (kăthʹər-ĭn, kăthʹrĭn; ărʹə-gŏn'), 1485-1536.

The first wife of Henry VIII of England. Henry's insistence on a divorce from her (1533) caused his break with Roman Catholicism and the beginning of the English Reformation.

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