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Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford (c. November 1431 – 21 December 1495) was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and a leading architect of his nephew's successful accession to the throne in 1485. He was a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd . Jasper Tudor's coat of arms, granted to him by his maternal half-brother, King Henry VI, quarters ...
- Owen Tudor
Owen Tudor was an early casualty of the Wars of the Roses...
- Tudors of Penmynydd
The stained glass window at Penmynydd.. The family is best...
- Thornbury Castle
Thornbury Castle, west front. Thornbury Castle is a Tudor...
- Owen Tudor
Sir Jasper Tudor. Published 13th March 2016. Jasper Tudor, born around 1431, was the second son of the secret marriage between Katherine de Valois, widow of Henry V of England, and Owain Tudor, a member of her household. Together with his older brother Edmund, he spent most of his childhood at Barking Abbey, in the care of the abbess, Katherine ...
Jasper not only received lands and titles, including Sudeley Castle, he also, for the first time in his life was given a wife. It is not clear why he had not married during the early 1450s at the same time as his brother Edmund. To remain unmarried at the age of around 54, Jasper’s current age, was extremely unusual.
A young woman, believed by some to be a young Lady Margaret Beaufort, in the National Portrait Gallery. While in the care of her brother-in-law Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, on 28 January 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret gave birth to a son, Henry Tudor, at Pembroke Castle. As she was not yet physically mature, the birth was extremely difficult.
The brothers were both knighted in 1449, Edmund on the 15 th and Jasper on 25 th December. Different biographers have varying views of how much of the traditional military training the Tudor brothers received. It seems unlikely that if they were Henry VI’s court they would not have received similar training to that of other young nobleman ...
Catherine died in 1497, and Wingfield was a widower for some time. He married in about 1513, his second wife, Bridget Wiltshire, daughter and heiress of Sir John Wiltshire of Stone Castle and Isabella Clothall. They were parents to ten children: Charles Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle (1513 – 24 May 1540). He married Joan Knollys, a sister to ...
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Born in November of 1431, Jasper Tudor was the son of a queen and played one of the most intriguing behind-the-scenes roles in the Wars of the Roses … one that eventually led to the 30-plus year war's conclusion at the infamous Battle of Bosworth Field. But before he became a political mastermind, manipulator, and spy on behalf of his nephew ...
