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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 ...
The Tudor myth is a particular tradition in English history, historiography, and literature that presents the period of the 15th century, including the Wars of the Roses, as a dark age of anarchy and bloodshed, and sees the Tudor period of the 16th century as a golden age of peace, law, order, and prosperity.
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.
[101] [100] Richard's son predeceased him and Richard was killed in 1485 [102] after an invasion by the forces of Henry Tudor, who claimed the throne through his mother Margaret Beaufort. [103] Tudor assumed the throne as Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty and bringing the Plantagenet line of kings to an end. [104]
Elizabeth Tudor 1492–1495 Princess of England: Louis XII 1462–1515 King of France: Mary Tudor 1496–1533 Queen of France: Charles Brandon c. 1484 –1545 1st Duke of Suffolk: Edmund Tudor 1499–1500 Duke of Somerset: Katherine Tudor Princess of England 1503: Arthur Tudor 1486–1502 Prince of Wales: Catherine of Aragon 1485–1536 Queen ...
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 ...
From Henry VIII's coming to the throne of England in 1509, Cheney served as Lord Warden, spanning the reigns of all five of the Tudor monarchs. Cheney was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520, and served three times as an ambassador to France, under the authority of Henry VIII and Francois I of France , between 1549 and 1553.