House of Tudor | Tudor Dynasty
HouseofTudor,anEnglishroyaldynasty[1]ofWelshorigin,whichgavefivesovereigns[2]toEngland:HenryVII[3](reigned1485–1509);hisson,HenryVIII[4](1509–47);followedbyHenryVIII’sthreechildren,EdwardVI[5](1547–53),MaryI[6](1553–58),andElizabethI[7](1558–1603).ReadMoreonThisTopicUnitedKingdom:EnglandundertheTudorsWhenHenryTudor,earlofRichmond,seizedthethroneonAugust22,1485,leavingtheYorkistRichardIIIdeaduponthefieldofbattle,...TheoriginsoftheTudorscanbetracedtothe13thcentury,butthefamily’s[9]dynasticfort...
House of Tudor, an English royal dynasty[1] of Welsh origin, which gave five sovereigns[2] to England: Henry VII[3] (reigned 1485–1509); his son, Henry VIII[4] (1509–47); followed by Henry VIII’s three children, Edward VI[5] (1547–53), Mary I[6] (1553–58), and Elizabeth I[7] (1558–1603).
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United Kingdom: England under the Tudors
When Henry Tudor, earl of Richmond, seized the throne on August 22, 1485, leaving the Yorkist Richard III dead upon the field of battle,...
The origins of the Tudors can be traced to the 13th century, but the family’s[9] dynastic fortunes were established by Owen Tudor[10] (c. 1400–61), a Welsh adventurer who took service with Kings Henry V[11] and Henry VI and fought on the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses[12]; he was beheaded after the Yorkist victory at Mortimer’s Cross (1461). O...