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  1. 6 days ago · Lambert Simnel’s army led by the Earl of Lincoln, John de la Pole, attacked a royalist army led by the Earl of Oxford at Stoke Field near Newark. The rebels were defeated and the Earl of Lincoln was killed. Lambert Simnel was captured. Henry VII realised that Simnel had been used and set him to work in the royal kitchens.

  2. 1 day ago · Henry VII 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, daughter of King Edward IV. They were third cousins, as both were great ...

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    • Henry VII (first Tudor king)
  3. Apr 21, 2024 · Nathen Amin. Apr 21, 2024. On 21 April 1509, Henry VII died at Richmond Palace. He was fifty-two years old, and had reigned for nearly twenty-four years. In truth, the final years of Henry’s reign were tough, both for his subjects who were fearful of falling foul of a strategically avaricious king, and for himself, increasingly isolated and ...

  4. Apr 19, 2024 · 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 ...

  5. 3 days ago · Henry VII’s New Men and the Making of Tudor England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780199659838; 416pp.; Price: £54.00. As Professor Gunn observes in his foreword, this book has been a long time coming: first mooted in fact in 1985 (a very suitable date). This has had two significant consequences which I shall discuss ...

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  7. Apr 16, 2024 · house of York. Perkin Warbeck (born 1474?, Tournai, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died Nov. 23, 1499, London, Eng.) was an impostor and pretender to the throne of the first Tudor king of England, Henry VII. Vain, foolish, and incompetent, he was used by Henry’s Yorkist enemies in England and on the European continent in an unsuccessful plot to ...

  8. 1 day 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.