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   Possible/likely illegitimate child of Henry VII

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   • Birthdate: 1474
   • Death: June 25, 1535 (60-61)England (United Kingdom)

   • Birthplace: England (United Kingdom)
   • Occupation: Constable Of Beaumaris Castle

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   ROLAND VELEVILLE(or VIELLEVILLE) alias BRITTANY, Knt., of Westminster, Middlesex and Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, king’s servant, Constable of Beaumaris Castle. He served in Sir John Cheyne’s retinue in the expedition to Brittany in 1489. He is probably to be identified with the “Roland de Bella Vill” who served as an esquire in the army which King ...

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   Parentage Dispute

   Sir Roland de Velville (1471/4 - 25 June 1535) has an unclear parentage. He was either the an illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by an unknown woman from Brittany, or a favored member of the court of Henry VII and later recipient of beneficences, who had unknown parents and was brought to England as an adolescent with the 28-year-old Henry after his exile in Brittany. Roland de Velville has been considered a natural son of Henry VII for almost 400 years, but multiple scholars of Tu...

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   ↑References to Douglas Richardson's current file on Roland Veleville: Dwnn, Heraldic Vis. of Wales 2 (1846): 131, footnote 4 (author identifies Sir Roland Velville as “natural son of Hen. 7.”). Sha...

   ↑Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. 5, page 210

   A Griffiths, R S Thomas, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty, (Gloucestershire, U.K.: The History Press, 2011), revised edition, p. 105

   ↑Peter Beauclerk-Dewar & Roger Powell, "King Henry VII (1457-1509):Roland de Velville (1474-1535)", in Royal Bastards: Illegitimate Children of the British Royal Family (Gloucestershire, U.K.: The...

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   Sir Roland De Velville was born in the year 1474 in The Chateau of Durtal, near Angers, Breton, France, son of King Henry VII TUDOR and Lady DeVELVILLE. He was married on July 6, 1528 to Grace Agnes GRIFFITH, they gave birth to 1 child. He died on June 25, 1535 in Wales.

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   Was Roland de Velville a natural son of Henry VII?

   • Roland de Velville has been considered a natural son of Henry VII for almost 400 years, but multiple scholars of Tudor and Welsh history such as Prof. S B Chrimes, Prof. R A Griffiths and W R B Robinson have recently began to doubt that he was the natural son of Henry VII.

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   Was Roland de Veleville a bastard son of Henry VII?

   • Chrimes, Henry VII (1972): 67 (“The allegation has often been made that Sir Roland de Veleville, appointed constable of Beaumaris by Henry VIII, was a bastard son of Henry VII, begotten in Brittany, appears untenable.”).

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   Did Veleville have a royal ancestry?

   • The reference in Dafydd Alaw's elegy to Veleville's royal ancestry shows that claims regarding his Tudor paternity were current in Anglesey at the time of his death, but we do not know how they originated or how long they had been circulating. They may only have gained currency during Veleville's later years in Beaumaris.

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   Was Velville a real person?

   • This would seem to imply that the identity of both his father and mother was known. According to Dr. Siddons, John Writhe, Garter King of Arms (see below), would have actually known Velville. On the other hand, SF1 refers to a manuscript prepared for Katherine of Berain (Velville's grand-daughter) by Simwnt Fychan.

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