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4 days ago · It is well known that this place received its present name by royal command in the reign of Henry VII. who was Earl of Richmond in Yorkshire. In Doomsday Book it is not mentioned; a record of nearly the same antiquity calls it Syenes ; the name was afterwards spelt Schenes , and Shene , and Shene.
3 days ago · It was at this time that the name of the manor was changed by command of the king from Sheen to Richmond, after his earldom of Richmond in Yorkshire. A second fire broke out in 1507, but the palace was again repaired in the same year. Henry VII was at Richmond when he died.
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4 days ago · On Henry's death in 1610 the chapel and its property passed to his son Thomas, who in 1612 granted what was described as the free chapel of Sheen and the tithes belonging to it to Thomas Hall for 80 years. In 1618 Hall was succeeded by his son Charles, aged 14, who secured possession of the chapel and its property in 1626.
4 days ago · Henry VII. London, Routledge, 2007, ISBN: 9780415266208; 336pp.; Price: £45.00. A new book on Henry VII is a major event. The last full-length study of the king and his reign, by S. B. Chrimes, was written in 1972, in a very different historiographical world. At that time, the explosion of interest in later-medieval history was still in its ...
3 days ago · Henry Vll. (reigned 1485-1509) ( Lady Jane Grey reigned as Queen for just 9 days.) Age 28-52. Great-great-great-grandson of Edward III. Married Elizabeth (daughter of Edward IV ). Seven children. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Henry Tudor became King Henry Vll of England and Wales after defeating Richard lll at the Battle of Bosworth in August 1485.
4 days ago · Henry VII was King of England in the late 15th Century and early 16th Century. The first monarch of the House of Tudor, he is perhaps most well-known for defeating Richard III at Bosworth Field, ending the Wars of the Roses, and for being the father of King Henry VIII. He was born on Jan. 28, 1457, at Pembroke Castle.
2 days ago · The monarchy of the United Kingdom, commonly referred to as the British monarchy, is the form of government used by the United Kingdom by which a hereditary monarch reigns as the head of state, with their powers regulated by the British Constitution. The term may also refer to the role of the royal family within the UK's broader political ...
