Birth of Henry Tudor
Henry Tudor (portrait at National Portrait Gallery, London)
Birth of Henry Tudor
On 28 January 1457, Henry Tudor was born at Pembroke Castle in Wales, the son of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort. Edmund Tudor was the son of Owen Tudor and Henry V’s widow Catherine of Valois. Margaret Beaufort, was a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt (third son of Edward III) and his third wife and previous mistress Katherine Swynford. The children of this relationship, the Beauforts, were disinherited by Letters Patent of King Henry IV from any claim to the throne. After defeating Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth on 22 August 1485, he took the throne as Henry VII.
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