1457-born on the 28th of January nephew of Jasper Tudor (Welsh Tewdwr) was born at Pembroke Castle. Son of Edmund Tudor (Earl of Richmond) and Margaret Beaufort a descendant of John of Gaunt. His father had been taken a prisoner by the Yorkists in the summer of 1456 and he later died a prisoner in Carmarthen Castle.
1461-Edward IV seized the crown, Pembroke fell to the Yorkists and mother and child were placed under the guardianship of William Herbert who was granted Jaspers earldom of Pembroke, while Jasper himself fled abroad. Henry was now parted from his mother, (who married a Lancastrian Knight, Sir Henry Stafford), but he received sound schooling and was intended as a husband for Herbert's daughter..
1469-Herbert was executed for alleged treason by Warwick the Kingmaker.
1470- Henry VI was restored to the throne, Jasper could return from excile and bring his nephew to the Lancastrian court. Henry VI seeing the youth from Wales fro the first time, greeted him "this truly, this is he unto whom both we and our adversaries must yield and give over dominion". Those were prophetic words for within a year the King had died, his own line became extinct and the young Henry Tudor became the true heir to the House of Lancaster.
1471-Edward IV recovered the crown at the battle of Barnet Easter Day.
1st May -After the Battle of Tewkesbury it was no longer safe for Henry and his uncle to remain even in Mid-Wales, they found political asylum in north-west France, which then formed the independent Duchy of Brittany. Henry stayed in Brittany from the age of 14 to 27 with his uncle Jasper. During which time he was educated learning the Breton language which is not dissimilar to Cornish.
1483- Richard III's usurpation to the throne in antagonised many of the Yorkist nobility and subsequent rumours of the two princes Edward and Richard brought Henry appreciably nearer the throne.
Henry took a solemn oath in Rennes Cathedral at Christmas, that once he became king he would marry Princes Elizabeth, heiress to the House of York.
His greatest asset was his Welsh blood and the bards fervently proclaimed his just cause.
1485-August Henry made his landing at Milford Haven South Wales. He attracted a large following . His army marched north via Shrewsbury and thence to Stafford and Tamworth to face Richard III .
Monday 22nd August-a few miles west of Leicester, near the village of Market Bosworth. Richard III led a cavalry charge directed at the person of his rival Henry Tudor and was slain in the melee.
Henry succeeded to the throne of England. This is a major date for the English monarchy, for it ushered in the House of Tudor and, ever since, the crown of England has remained in the line of the heirs of Henry Tudor the victor of Bosworth Field.
October-Henry was crowned king in Westminster Abbey.
He soon strengthened his claim to the throne of England by Parliamentary approval.
1486-18th January Henry Married Elizabeth York (Henry married solely for political reasons as Elizabeth was the heiress of the rival house of Lancaster. The merging of the house of York and Lancaster ended the War of the Roses. However after their marriage he fell deeply in love with her and was heartbroken on her death). she was destined to bear him three sons and four daughters, though only their second son Henry (to be Henry VIII), and their eldest and third daughters, Margaret and Mary respectively, were to survive their parents. it was Henrys great grandson by his daughter Margaret James VI of Scotland that was later to form the Stuart dynasty.
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Elizabeth Plantagenet. (Born 11th February 1465 at Westminster London. Daughter of Edward IV York and Elizabeth Woodville. Elizabeth Plantagenet died 11 February 1503 at the Tower of London).
19th of September St Swithins Priory Winchester a son Arther Tudor born and baptised in Winchester Cathedral ( Arther was Prince of Wales Duke of Cornwall and married Catherine of Aragon in St Pauls Cathedral on the 14th of November 1501) Arther died 2nd April 1502 at Ludlow Castle Shropshire and was buried in 1502 in Worcester Cathedral). It was the latter marriage of Catherine to Arther's brother Henry VIII that was the course of the split between the King and Rome.
1487-Henry VII backed the Italian John Cabot in a voyage from Bristol the discovered Newfoundland and stirred England's interest in North America.
Also this year Simnel Lambert son of a baker who under the influance of a priest named William Symonds, claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, son of George , Duke of Clarence. He was crowned as Edward VI in Dublin. Henry VII removed the real Edward from prison and paraded him throughout he streets of London.
When the rebel forces landed they found no support in England and were defeated at Stoke, outside Newark. Simnel ended his days as a turnspite in the kings kitchen.
1488-Both Cardiff castle and town came into the hands of Jasper Tudor, uncle of Henry VII.
1489-A daughter Margaret Tudor born 29th November Westminster London (She was later to marry on the 8th August 1503 at Holyrood Palace Edinburgh James IV Stewart of Scotland this marriage was annulled 1527).
1491-28th January a son born at Greenwich Palace Henry later Henry VIII.
1492-Henry had played his Celtic Card well. His connection with Wales through his uncle, and having been brought up in Brittany and taking the name Tudor. However by this year the tide had begun to turn, Henry had tried to ignore native institutions by collecting taxes to fund the war against France who was threatening Cornwall's neighbour, Duchy of Brittany- Cornwall's sister Celtic nation. yet Henry pulled out of the war in return for a pay-off from the French King, he kept the taxation supposedly won for the war and sacrificed Brittany to France. This with the way he treated the Cornish Blackheath Rebellion and Perkin Warbeck demonstrates his betrayal of the Celtic peoples.
1497-The year of the Blackheath Rebellion, and the Cornish rising behind the impostor Perkin Warbeck.
1500-Archbishop Thomas Rotherham of York died he had become a reliable servant of Henry VII.
1509-Henry died on the 21st April at Richmond Palace Surrey buried 11th May 1509 Henry VII Chapel Westminster Abbey.