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Until 1513, Henry continued the policy of his father, to allow Irish lords to rule in the King's name and accept steep divisions between the communities. [244] However, upon the death of the Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare , Lord Deputy of Ireland , fractious Irish politics combined with a more ambitious Henry to cause trouble.
Lady Margaret Beaufort (pronounced / ˈ b oʊ f ər t / BOH-fərt or / ˈ b juː f ər t / BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. [1]
She made vigorous attempts to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, King Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by Parliament , but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake ...
Elizabeth Tailboys (born c.1520- c. 1562) mostly due to being born in the same year of her supposed father's marriage and her mother's, (Gilbert Tailboys and Bessie Blount) and they married near march of that year, so she would normally be born near 1521 if it was immediately consummated, also because Bessie Blount was the mistress of Henry ...
Elizabeth of York (11 February 1466 – 11 February 1503) was Queen of England from her marriage to King Henry VII on 18 January 1486 until her death in 1503. [1] She was the daughter of King Edward IV and his wife, Elizabeth Woodville, and her marriage to Henry VII followed his victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field, which marked the end of the civil war known as the Wars of the Roses.
Law stars as Tudor monarch Henry VIII, in the historical drama documenting the relationship between the 28-stone King and his sixth wife Catherine Parr, played by Alicia Vikander.
Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III, and founder of the House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the House of Plantagenet. Henry's father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, was a half-brother of King Henry VI of England (also a Lancastrian) and a member of the Welsh Tudors of Penmynydd ...
The king named the Scottish warship Margaret after her. The treaty of 1502, far from being perpetual, barely survived the death of Henry VII in 1509. His successor, the young Henry VIII, had little time for his father's cautious diplomacy, and was soon heading towards a war with France, Scotland's historic ally.