![]() Lancastrian kings used the rose sporadically, but when they did it was often gold rather than red Henr y VI, the king who presided over the country's descent into civil war, preferred his badge of the antelope. Henry VII certainly used his mother's Portcullis Badge more.Īs previously mentioned, t he historian Thomas Penn writes in "How Henry VII branded the Tudors", The Guardian, 2 March 2012: The "Lancastrian" red rose was an emblem that barely existed before Henry VII. ![]() However, it is debatable that the combined Rose Badge was anything other than a Tudor ploy, played on mainly by Henry's son, Henry VIII. Henry is also said to have combined the Rose Badges of the warring sides of the War of the Roses into the one Tudor Rose, as we also saw in a previous Blog. Amassing an army of about 5,000 soldiers, he decided to engage Richard III quickly and defeated him at Bosworth Field on 22nd August 1485, supposedly plucking Richard’s crown from a hawthorn bush and placing it on his own head. ![]() Having first tried from Brittany, where he had fled in exile, Henry landed in his native Pembrokeshire with the ready help of the French and his prospective in-laws, the Woodvilles and marched towards England with his uncle, Jasper Tudor. Henry also pledged to marry Elizabeth of York, the eldest daughter of Edward IV, who was also Edward's heir since the presumed deaths of her brothers, the Princes in the Tower. Margaret was actively promoting Henry as an alternative to Richard III, despite by now being married to a Yorkist herself and acting with King Edward IV's widow, Elizabeth Woodville. Nevertheless, by 1483 Henry was the senior male Lancastrian claimant remaining after the deaths in battle, by murder or execution of his closest relatives. Henry Tudor's main claim was thus somewhat tenuous. Margaret’s ancestor, however, was born before Gaunt and Katherine married, but was legitimised by Letters Patent in 1397 by Gaunt's nephew Richard II, subsequently read out by the Chancellor in Parliament, thus making it in effect an Act of Parliament. Conversely, Henry IV, Gaunt's son by his first wife, issued new Letters Patent in 1407 again confirming the legitimacy of his half-siblings but also specifically declaring them ineligible for the throne. Lady Margaret Beaufort was a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster and fourth son of Edward III, and his third wife Katherine Swynford. Henry's main claim to the English throne derived from his mother, the sole remaining heir of the House of Beaufort. One of their sons, Edmund, was created Earl of Richmond in 1452, and "formally declared legitimate by Parliament". He rose in favour and fought at the Battle of Agincourt and is said to have secretly married Henry V's widow, Catherine of Valois. Henry VII (28th January 1457 – 21st April 1509) was born at Pembroke Castle to Margaret Beaufort when she was reputedly 13 years old, and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and half-brother of King Henry VI who died three months before the birth of his son.Įdmund’s father, Owen Tudor, originally from the Isle of Anglesey in Wales, had been a page at the Court of Henry V. Ultimately, he would be overshadowed by his (second) son and successor, King Henry VIII. It is reported that he inspected accounts every day. ![]() Henry reinforced the power of the monarchy by tightening up administration and increasing revenues. This is generally held to have been symbolised by the Tudor Rose, although there is little evidence that the red and white Roses had, in actual fact, been used previously, certainly not as much as the Tudor propaganda machine would use the combined Badge. In 1486 he married Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV, thus uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. He may have won the Battle of Bosworth but other people had closer claims than Henry. Although supported by Lancastrians and Yorkists disaffected by Richard III and the disappearance of his nephews, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, Henry VII's first task was to secure his position on the Throne. Lancastrian himself, He united the opposing parties in what was retrospectively dubbed the Wars of the Roses. ![]()
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