- Year
- 1499
- Event
- Catherine of Aragon was married by proxy to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at Tickenhill Manor, Bewdley.
- Why it matters
- The proxy marriage set up the Tudor dynastic link with Spain and led directly into the later argument over Catherine’s marriage to Henry VIII.
- Possible Historically angle
- Treat the event as the quiet legal beginning of a much louder Tudor crisis, with the real story lying in how a formal arrangement later became a matter of royal conscience, politics and power.
- Suggested category
- Politics