Edmund Tudor (1st Earl of Richmond)

1431 - 1456  (25 years)

• Name	Edmund Tudor (1st Earl of Richmond)
  Born	1431	England
  Gender	Male
  Died	01 Nov 1456	Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales
  Person ID	I730	King of Scots
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2009

  
  

  Father	Owen Tudor,   b. 1385,   d. 02 Feb 1461  (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Catherine of Valois,   b. 27 Oct 1401, Paris, France ,   d. 03 Jan 1437, London, England  (Age 35 years)
  Family ID	F295	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Margaret Beaufort,   b. 31 May 1443, Bletsoe Castle Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England ,   d. 29 Jun 1509, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England  (Age 66 years)
  Married	01 Nov 1455
  Children	+ 1. Henry VII King of England (Lord of Ireland),   b. 28 Jan 1457, Pembroke Castle Pembroke, Wales ,   d. 21 Apr 1509, Richmond Palace Richmond, Surrey, London, England  (Age 52 years)
  Last Modified	13 Feb 2009
  Family ID	F296	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1431 - England Died - 01 Nov 1456 - Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ( 1431 ? 1 November 1456) was the father of King Henry VII of England. Tudor was born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire or at Hadham in Bedfordshire, an older son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois (former wife of King Henry V of England). It is not known for certain whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married. Whatever the case, his mother died in 1437, but his half-brother King Henry VI recognised him and elevated him as Earl of Richmond in November 1452. Edmund's younger brother, Jasper, was created Earl of Pembroke. On 1 November 1455, he married Lady Margaret Beaufort, a daughter of the legitimised John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset. She was twelve years old at the time, and became pregnant in the following year. However, during the opening rounds of the Wars of the Roses, Edmund was captured by the Yorkist Herbert family. They imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, where he caught the plague and died. Henry, his only child, was born at Pembroke Castle, only two months after his death.