Medical historians think multiple head injuries from dangerous sports could explain the king’s tyrant behavior, resulting in the execution of 57,000 people. HenrytheVIII HenryTheEigth KingHenry
injury. With jousting, each opponent mounted a horse and then raced toward each other while holding a wooden pole measuring about 10-feet. The goal was to use the lance to knock the other competitor off their horse. The competitors wore body armor as well as helmets with an open visor around the eyes.
In a March 1524 jousting match, the opponent rammed his lance into the king’s open visor and hit right above his eye. The king complained of a headache — a symptom of concussion — then continued with the match. The injury was the start of a lifelong affliction with headaches. A year after the jousting injury, King Henry was pole vaulting over a garden hedge when his pole gave out beneath him. He fell into a watery ditch below, briefly lost consciousness and was pulled from the water.
More than a decade later in January 1536, the king had another jousting injury. After falling hard off his horse, King Henry was so dazed for the next two hours that he could not speak. He eventually came to, but his behavior was never the same.Scholars disagree which head injury transformed the king from kind to cruel. Some have said his behavior changed in the late 1520s, others see the final head injury from 1536 as the turning point.
Scholars do agree King Henry experienced a major personality change that fits of rage, moodiness and depression defined. The once charismatic king
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