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Henry VII Tudor King of England

Male 1457 - 1509  (52 years)


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  • Name Henry VII Tudor King of England  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Occupation 1456 
    Earl of Richmond 
    Born 28 Jan 1457  Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1471 
    Flees to Brittany with other Lancastrians after the Yorkist Edward IV regained his throne 
    Occupation 7 Aug 1485 
    Sails to England from France where he had been in exile (lands at Mill Bay in Pembrokeshire) 
    Military 22 Aug 1485 
    Defeated King Richard III (killed in action) at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Leicestershire, England 
    Occupation 30 Oct 1485 
    Crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey 
    Occupation 1497 
    Commissioned Italian-born explorer John Cabot (Giovanni Chabotte Vinizizno) who reached Newfoundland aboard the "Matthew" 
    Occupation 12 Mar 1499 
    Dispatch to John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, asking him to suspend a lawsuit against Bristol shipping merchant William Weston 
    Occupation 12 Mar 1499 
    William Weston was preparing to "passe and saille for to serche and fynde if he can the new founde land" (off the coast of North America) 
    Occupation 17 Mar 1501 
    Letters patent granted to Richard Ward, Thomas Ashurst, John Thomas (Bristol merchants), Francis Fernandez and Jaime Gonzalès (Portuguese captains) 
    Died 21 Apr 1509  Richmond Palace, Sheen, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Tuberculosis 
    Buried Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4498  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Sir Edmund Tudor of Hadham,   b. 1430, Hadham, Hertfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Nov 1456, Carmarthen Castle, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 26 years) 
    Mother Margaret Beaufort,   b. 31 May 1443, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Jun 1509, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 1 Nov 1455  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2277  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Plantagenêt Queen of England,   b. 11 Feb 1466, Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1503, Tower of London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years) 
    Married 18 Jan 1486  Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Arthur Tudor of Wales,   b. 20 Sep 1486, St. Swithun's Priory, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Apr 1502, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 15 years)
     2. Margaret Tudor Queen of Scotland,   b. 28 Nov 1489, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Oct 1542, Methven Castle, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 52 years)
     3. Henry VIII Tudor King of England,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jan 1547, Whitehall, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 55 years)
     4. Mary Tudor Reine de France,   b. 18 Mar 1496, Richmond Palace, Sheen, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jun 1533, Westhorpe Hall, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 37 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2278  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
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    2. [S763] Histoire généalogique et héraldique des pairs de France, des grands dignitaires de la couronne, Jean Baptiste Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, (Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, l'auteur, rue de Sèvres, Paris, 1822-1833), Tome 7, chapitre de Brydges ou de Bruges, p. 9.

    3. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Vol. I, p. 28; Vol. III, pp. 442-443; Vol. VII, p. 599 & Vol. XII/2, p. 914.

    4. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 36, 79, 40, 459, 524 & 573.

    5. [S747] The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, (Printed for William Strahan; and Thomas Cadell, in the Strand, London, 1777), Volume 1, p. 40.

    6. [S750] The History of Italy, from the fall of the Western Empire to the commencement of the wars of the French Revolution, Colonel George Procter, (Second Edition, Whittaker and Co., London, 1844), 186.

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