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Hace 4 días · Following the murder of Henry VI and death of his son, Edward, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471, Henry became the person upon whom the Lancastrian cause rested. Concerned for his young nephew's life, Jasper Tudor took Henry to Brittany for safety.
Hace 3 días · Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485) was King of England from 26 June 1483 until his death in 1485. He was the last king of the Plantagenet dynasty and its cadet branch the House of York. His defeat and death at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the end of the Middle Ages in England.
Hace 4 días · In 1486 Henry VII granted the manor to his uncle Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford, on whose death without legitimate heir in 1495 it presumably returned to the Crown.
Hace 5 días · This new king was Henry Tudor, a Welshman who rose from obscurity, to become Henry VII, England’s first Tudor king. Although his father’s lineage had ancestral ties going back to the king’s and Queen’s of France and Wales, it was ultimately his mother, Margaret Beaufort’s claim to the throne that saw the crown placed atop Henry’s head at Bosworth Field in August 1485.
Hace 4 días · After Lovel's forfeiture in 1485 the manor was granted to Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, from whose death in 1495 until 1517 or later it remained in the hand of the Crown. By 1529 Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk (d. 1554), was exercising the patronage of the church, (fn. 61) and Little Rissington was among the manors that he sold to the Crown in ...
Hace 3 días · A leading advocate of the execution of Charles I in January 1649, which led to the establishment of The Protectorate, he ruled as Lord Protector from December 1653 until his death in September 1658.
Hace 4 días · The gamble failed, for when Edward died on July 6, 1553, the kingdom rallied to the daughter of Catherine of Aragon. Whatever their religious inclinations, Englishmen preferred a Tudor on the throne. In nine days the interlude was over, and Northumberland and his daughter-in-law were in the Tower of London.
