Edmund Tudor

Edmund 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  (widow of King   Henry V of England). It is not known for certain whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1436, his mother retired to Bermondsey Abbey where she died in 1437. Therefore he and his brother Jasper were brought up in the care of Katherine de la Pole, abbess of Barking, with whom they remained till 1442. The abbess then brought them to Henry VI's notice, who in turn sent them over as the charges of certain priests to be educated.When Edmund grew up, Henry kept him at his court. Edmund was knighted on 15 December 1449, summoned to parliament as Earl of Richmond 30 January 1452, and created Earl of Richmond and premier earl on 6 March, acceeding on 23 November, while Jasper was created Earl of Pembroke. In the parliament of 1453 Edmund was formally declared legitimate.Henry made him large grants, particularly in 1454.

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Marriage to Margaret Beaufort
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">In 1452  Lady Margaret Beaufort <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, the nine-year-old daughter of the  Duke of Somerset<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> was summoned to the court of her second cousin, King Henry and, at  Bletsoe Castle<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;"> on 1 November 1455, married to Edmund. After Somerset's fall Margaret had jointly been the ward of Edmund and his brother Jasper. She was twelve years old at the time of the marriage and became pregnant in the following year.

<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:19px;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">Capture, captivity and death
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">However, the <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Wars of the Roses<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">had begun and Edmund (a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Lancastrian<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">) was captured by <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Yorkist<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">partisan <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  William Herbert<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">in mid-1456. Herbert imprisoned him at <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Carmarthen Castle<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">in <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  South Wales<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456, and was buried at Carmarthen Grey Friars. His elegy was written by <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  Lewis Glyn Cothi<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">. His remains were at the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539 removed to the choir of <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">  St David's Cathedral<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19.200000762939453px;">.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;">Edmund's only child, the future Henry VII, was born at Pembroke Castle, almost three months after his death.