Henry VII TUDOR, King of England

1457 - 1509  (52 years)

• Name	Henry VII TUDOR  [1]
  Suffix	King of England
  Birth	28 Jan 1457	Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Wales, 51.677678,-4.920694   [2, 3, 4]
  		Pembroke Castle Pembroke Castle, Wales, first established in 1093, during the Norman invasion of Wales.
  Gender	Male
  Reign	From 22 Aug 1485 to 21 Apr 1509  [5]
  		ArbfaisTuduriaid Coat of Arms of King Henry VII. Courtesy of Wikipedia.
  Crown2	30 Oct 1485  [5]
  House	Tudor
  Death	21 Apr 1509	Richmond Palace, Surrey, England, 51.461100,-0.309385   [4, 6]
  	Henry designated his mother as chief executrix of his will. During the two days following his death Margaret secured the succession of her grandson, Henry VIII.She arranged her son's funeral and her grandson's coronation. (Wikipedia)
  		Repository - Richmond_Palace 1 Richmond Palace, as published in 1765, essentially as built by Henry VII in 1501.
  Burial	11 May 1509	Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England, 51.498910,-0.128280   [7]
  Person ID	I92371	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Edmund TUDOR, 1st Earl of Richmond,   b. 1431   d. 3 Nov 1456, Carmarthen Castle, Wales,, 51.856,-4.316 (Age 25 years)
  Mother	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, 8]
  	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.
  Family ID	F1485	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth PLANTAGENET, of York, Queen Consort of England,   b. 11 Feb 1466, Palace of Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, 51.500241,-0.124267 d. 11 Feb 1503, Tower of London, London, England (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	1486  [5, 9, 10]
  Children	1. Arthur TUDOR, Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall,   b. Sep 1486, Winchester Cathedral Priory, Winchester, England d. Mar 1502 (Age ~ 15 years)   2. Margaret TUDOR, Queen of Scotland,   b. 28 Nov 1489, the Palace of Westminster, London, England d. 8 Oct 1541, Methven Castle, Perthshire, England (Age 51 years)   3. King Henry VIII TUDOR, King of England,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace, Kent, England d. 28 Jan 1547, Palace of Whitehall, London, Middlesex, England, 51.504444,-0.125556 (Age 55 years)   4. Elizabeth TUDOR,   b. 2 Jul 1492, Sheen Palace, Surrey, England, 51.462958,-0.267883 d. 14 Sep 1495, Eltham Palace, Kent, England (Age 3 years)   5. Mary TUDOR, Queen Dowager of France,   b. 18 Mar 1496, Sheen Palace, London, England, 51.462958,-0.267883 d. 25 Jun 1533, Westhorpe Hall, Westhorpe, Suffolk, England, 52.282405;1.005718 (Age 37 years)   6. Edmund TUDOR, Duke of Somerset,   b. 21 Feb 1499, Greenwich Palace, Kent, England d. 19 Jun 1500, Hatfield Manor House, Hatfield, South Yorkshire (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F22582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jul 2024

  
  

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  		WLA_vanda_Henry_VII_bust Posthumous portrait bust of Henry VII by Pietro Torrigiano made using his death mask.

  
  

• Sources

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