On January 24, 1536, the 44-year-old Henry VIII was injured in a jousting accident. His horse fell on top of him, knocking him unconscious for two hours and tearing open an old injury in his leg.

Most death masks are cast as soon as possible, before decay distorts features and makes applying plaster a slippery proposition. Henry IV, on the other hand, had been dead for nearly 200 years ...

Henry VIII, who had a morbid horror of being poisoned, promoted an act of parliament declaring that poisoning was treason, the penalty for which was to be boiled alive; and – this is the point ...

His death mask, and a pocketbook made of his skin (!) are on display at Scotland's Surgeon's Hall Museum. David Cheskin - Pa Images / PA Images via Getty Images. 12. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

It is hoped that the research will establish a firmer link between Henry VII's death mask and Torrigiano's work. The funeral ...

Henry VIII’s grisly near-death accident that may have altered the course of history In the years after the incident, the once-charismatic Tudor king became increasingly sickly with festering ...

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder brother Arthur in 1502, Henry became heir to the English ...

Previous research in the 1980s concluded that Torrigiano must have used a model from Henry VII’s death mask to achieve such lifelike results. A death mask is a likeness, typically wax or plaster of a ...

Henry lost his life to Rett syndrome and we want it gone." RELATED VIDEO: Richard Engel Announces Death of 'Beloved' 6-Year-Old Son Henry Engel shared the heartbreaking news on Twitter last August.

Toward the end of his life, England’s King Henry VIII left a series of doodles in a prayer book, revealing his anguish over his health and his past actions, new research shows.

On January 24, 1536, England’s King Henry VIII was involved in an infamous jousting accident. The 44-year-old lunged forward as he fell from his horse and was subsequently trapped beneath the ...

Richard Engel's Wife Mary Pens Essay About 6-Year-Old Son Henry's Death: 'One Last Goodbye' "A single devastating typo in his genetic code robbed him of the ability to walk, talk and control his body.