| Name |
Edmund TUDOR [1, 2] |
| Suffix |
1st Earl of Richmond |
| Birth |
1431 [3] |
- he was born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire, or Hadham in Bedfordshire, an older son of Owen Tudor and Catherine de Valois, widow of King Henry V of England. It is not known with certainty whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married.
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| Gender |
Male |
| House |
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| Death |
3 Nov 1456 |
Carmarthen Castle, Wales,, 51.856,-4.316  [3] |
- During the Wars of the Roses, Edmund was captured by the Yorkists in mid-1456. He was imprisoned in Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, where he died of the plague.
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| Burial |
St. David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales [4] |
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Tomb_of_Edmund_Tudor
Tomb of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, at St. David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, Wales.. Courtesy of Wikipedia. |
| Person ID |
I92370 |
Ancestral Trails |
| Last Modified |
5 Aug 2024 |
| Family |
Lady Margaret BEAUFORT, Duchess of Suffolk, Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 31 May 1443, Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England d. 29 Jun 1509, Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England (Age 66 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Nov 1455 [1, 5] |
- in 1452 Margaret Beaufort, aged nine years, was summoned to the court of her second cousin, King Henry. Some three years later, she was married to Edmund Tudor. She was twelve years old when she married, and pregnant a year later. The Wars of the Roses had begun. Edmund, a Lancastrian, was captured by the Yorkists in mid-1456. He was imprisoned at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456. His only child, the future King Henry VII, was born almost three months after his death.
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| Children |
| | 1. Henry VII TUDOR, King of England, b. 28 Jan 1457, Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Wales, 51.677678,-4.920694 d. 21 Apr 1509, Richmond Palace, Surrey, England, 51.461100,-0.309385 (Age 52 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1485 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
19 Jul 2025 |
1431 - 1456 (25 years)