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The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, descended through his mother from the House of Beaufort, a legitimised branch of the English royal House of Lancaster, a cadet house of the Plantagenets. The Tudor family rose to power and started the Tudor period in the wake of the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), which left the main House of Lancaster (with ...
House of Tudor: Henry VII 1457–1509 King of England r. 1485–1509: Elizabeth of York 1466–1503: Edward V 1470–1483 King of England r. 1483: Mary Tudor 1496–1533: Henry VIII 1491–1547 King of England r. 1509–1547: Archibald Douglas c. 1489 –1557 Earl of Angus: Margaret Tudor 1489–1541: James IV 1473–1513 King of Scots r. 1488 ...
See Family tree of English monarchs, Family tree of Scottish monarchs, and Family tree of Welsh monarchs. This also includes England, Scotland and Wales; all part of the United Kingdom as well as the French Norman invasion. For a simplified view, see: Family tree of British monarchs.
Henry VII was born on 28 January 1457 at Pembroke Castle, in the English-speaking portion of Pembrokeshire known as Little England beyond Wales.He was the only child of Lady Margaret Beaufort, who was 13 years old at the time, and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond who, at 26, died three months before his birth. [1]
Next on the royal family tree is Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, the first-born son of Prince Charles and his late wife, Diana, Princess of Wales. By virtue of his being male, from the moment ...
Jasper Tudor c. 1431 –1495 Duke of Bedford: Edmund Tudor c. 1430 –1456: Lady Margaret Beaufort 1443–1509: John Neville c. 1431 –1471: Elizabeth Woodville c. 1437 –1492: Prince Edward 1442–1483 4th Duke of York, later King Edward IV: George Plantagenet 1449–1478 Duke of Clarence: Richard of York 1452–1485 Duke of Gloucester ...
The conflict resulted in the end of Lancaster's male line in 1471, leaving the Tudor family to inherit their claim to the throne through the female line. Conflict was largely brought to an end upon the union of the two houses through marriage, creating the Tudor dynasty that would subsequently rule England.
Henry Tudor declared himself king, took Elizabeth of York, eldest child of Edward IV, as his wife, claiming to have united the surviving houses of York and Lancaster, and acceded to the throne as Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty which reigned until 1603.