Claire | January 28, 2015

On 28th January 1457, thirteen year-old Margaret Beaufort gave birth to a son at Pembroke Castle, West Wales. The infant was named Henry after his half-uncle Henry VI. Henry’s father Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, had died from the plague three months earlier (while imprisoned by Yorkists) so his mother had been taken in […]

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Tags: birth of Henry VII, Edmund Tudor, Henry Tudor, Henry VII's birth, Jasper Tudor, Margaret Beaufort, Pembroke Castle

Claire | November 1, 2011

Thanks so much to Nasim for tweeting these dates this morning as my Tudor calendar was blank for today! On this day in history, 1st November… 1456 – Death of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, from the plague at Carmarthen Castle. Edmund was the son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois (widow of […]

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Tags: Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Edmund Tudor, Lady Margaret Beaufort