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  2. 4 days ago · King Henry VII, the founder of the royal house of Tudor. Upon becoming king in 1485, Henry VII moved rapidly to secure his hold on the throne. On 18 January 1486 at Westminster Abbey, he honoured a pledge made three years earlier and married Elizabeth of York, [11] daughter of King Edward IV.

  3. 2 days ago · Elizabeth of YorkHenry VII's marriage to Elizabeth united the rival Lancastrian and Yorkist claims to the throne. Henry was crowned as Henry VII of England on 30 October 1485 in Westminster Abbey.

  4. 5 days ago · The Wars of the Roses ended when Henry VII of England married Elizabeth of York symbolically uniting the white and red roses creating the Tudor rose, containing both the White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster. This signified the unity between these two powerful and previously warring houses. Lancashire Day.

  5. 1 day ago · Elizabeth of York Tudor. When Henry VII, of England seized the throne there were eighteen Plantagenet descendants who might today be thought to have a stronger hereditary claim, and by 1510 this number had been increased further by the birth of sixteen Yorkist children. Henry mitigated this situation with his marriage to Elizabeth of York. She ...

  6. 4 days ago · The Wars of the Roses had been a constant battle between two of England's most powerful families - the families of York and Lancaster. Henry was a member of the Lancaster family. To bring the two families closer together he married Elizabeth of York (the niece of the man he had killed to become king).

  7. 5 days ago · Penn’s book re-examines the reign of Henry VII, one of the most misunderstood of English kings. The reign sits uncomfortably on the borders between the Middle Ages and modernity, and the standard biography remains Stanley Chrimes’s 1972 account, a book in which the king himself remains elusive.

  8. 3 days ago · Houlbrooke explores the funerals of Prince Henry in 1511, Henry Percy, earl of Northumberland in 1489 and Elizabeth of York in 1503, the last of which being the ‘most elaborate and costly of Henrys reign’ at which the black cloth alone cost £1,483 15s 10d (pp. 70–1).

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