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Henry VII (V) Rumpold also known as the Middle or the Greater ( Polish: Henryk VII Rumpold or Średni, Większy; b. ca. 1350 – d. 24 December 1395), was a Duke of Żagań - Głogów during 1368–1378 (as a co-ruler with his brothers) and since 1378 ruler over half of Głogów, Ścinawa and Bytom Odrzański . He was the second son of Henry V ...
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The union was both symbolic and necessary. Despite his victory at Bosworth, the exiled nobleman who took the name Henry VII needed the support of those sympathetic to the defeated Yorkist cause. He also needed the legitimacy of his wifes claim to the throne. He had spent years in exile and campaigned tirelessly to win support for his claim to the E...
Henry Tudors claim to the throne was never based on ancestry alone. He knew, none better, that such a claim would be flimsy at best. His royal blood came from women his mother, Margaret Beaufort, was the granddaughter of John Beaufort (died 1410), the eldest of the bastard sons of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. Gaunts eldest legitimate son was ...
Margaret Beauforts father John succeeded to the earldom of Somerset in 1418 and, after a life of military embarrassment (including seventeen years in a French prison), he married Margaret Beauchamp, daughter of Sir John Beauchamp of Blestoe. A year after their marriage, John was created duke of Somerset. Margaret, his only child, was born on 31 May...
His great achievements were not forgotten but, immediately after his death, confusion swept through England. Henry V had died, leaving behind a twenty-year-old widow and an infant son. On 21 October 1422, her father suddenly died, after suffering years of intermittent insanity. The infant Henry VI was now king of both England and France. Catherine,...
The council was also careful to keep Catherine under watch. From 1427 until about 1430 she and her entourage lived in Henry VIs household. In April 1430 she traveled with her son to Paris for his coronation as king of France. Her activities were thus restricted and watched. However, the council was not completely successful at isolating the eligibl...
In 1432 Owen was made an English citizen and in March 1434 Catherine gifted him with some lands of his own in Flintshire. They lived together in the countryside, away from court intrigues, for some years. During this time, he began to follow the English use of surnames and became known, however inaccurately, as Owen Tudor. The couple had four child...
Eventually Owen would be released and pardoned (1440) and taken into his step-son Henry VIs household. In the years following Catherines death and Owens imprisonment, Edmund and Jasper Tudor were cared for by the abbess Katherine de la Pole, the earl of Suffolks sister. Around 1442, their half-brother Henry VI began to take an interest in their upb...
The importance of their Welsh blood should not be underestimated. Both Edmund and Jasper strove to maintain the kings authority in both south and west Wales and their Welsh ancestry (discussed in the Welsh Connection section) made them popular in much of Wales. Welsh support would later prove critical to Henry VII during the battle at Bosworth. Had...
Ricahrd was an able administrator but faced quite a few obstacles during his brief reign. If Edward IV had died with no rightful heir, Richards ascension would have been viewed much differently. Then, he would have been the rightful king. And since he wed Anne Neville of Warwick, daughter of the Kingmaker, he would have had crucial support. But Ric...
Meanwhile, over in France, Henry Tudor was positioning himself as heir to his murdered uncle Henry VI. With the support of exiled Lancastrians and the French monarchy, Henry planned to mount an invasion of England. Of course, the exiled Lancastrian nobility (Henrys family) were involved in countless plots to return to power. Captured spies exaggera...
What had prepared Henry for this moment? At twenty-eight he was hardly an experienced soldier but he was used to a life of sudden change. In the 1450s his father Edmund and uncle Jasper were Henry VIs closest relatives, part of a small group of influential advisors to the king. Other than these half-brothers, Henry VI was bereft of close blood rela...
Wales was always a problem for Henry VI for a major rebellion had ended just 40 years before and occasional fighting was not uncommon. Edmund Tudor, as the eldest brother, went there as a representative of the English king. While the duke of York was regent, Edmund led a raid to reassert the dukes authority on his lands, centered on the castle Carm...
On 12 March 1471, Edward returned from Europe and landed in Yorkshire. He marched south to London, reaching there on 11 April; on 14 April, he fought Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. Edward won and promptly killed Warwick. He also regained custody of Henry VI. The situation was once again dire; Jasper Tudor promptly began to raise an army to fight ...
Jul 27, 2009 · In Henry's case the road from Bacon's view to Green's lay through James Harrington's notion, formulated as an explanation of the breakdown of the English monarchy in the sixteen-forties, that Henry's favouring of the yeomanry and weakening of the magnates had ended the ‘Gothic balance’ between king and nobility. 21 While, a century after ...
- Steven Gunn
- 2009
Abstract: The memoir of the court of Henry VII for the years of 1486-90, contained in BL, MS Cotton Julius B. XII, fols. 8v-66r, represents an invaluable source for the study of court and socio-political life during the early years of the reign of Henry VII. Hitherto the only printed version of the memoir was to be found in Thomas Hearne’s ...
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Jul 27, 2009 · Whether Henry VII was an innovator, renovator or simply lucky has not been definitively ascertained in the years since S. B. Chrimes's biography of the king, although a recent work has provided greater clarity. 1 One unapologetic admirer of Edward IV proffered the opinion that the first Tudor's reign ‘was not a type of kingship appropriate to late-medieval England’.
- Mark R. Horowitz
- 2009
Apr 19, 2024 · Henry VII, king of England (1485–1509), who succeeded in ending the Wars of the Roses between the houses of Lancaster and York and founded the Tudor dynasty. His son was Henry VIII. Learn more about Henry VII’s life, reign, and accomplishments in this article.
May 25, 2006 · A week after the death of Henry VII, John Camby, Richard Page and others – including Empson and Dudley – were excluded from the new king's general pardon, and many lost their offices and spent time in gaol. 111 On 4 September, Camby (‘keper of the compter in the pultrye’) and two other gaol keepers were ordered by the aldermen's court ...
