A small portion of any purchases from these sites goes directly toward funding and supporting Totally Timelines. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. The Prince stated that the treaty had been made when he was a minor and was therefore not valid. Henry hoped to convince Philip that England was at peace and the advent of the Tudor dynasty had settled the differences between the Lancastrians and Yorkists. It was agreed that they would marry when Charles was 15 years old. Henry was concerned for the succession with only one surviving male heir. Richard did leave two illegitimate heirs, however, who are known to have lived in the reign of Henry VII. John Morton, Archbishop of Canterbury, died. Henry and Philip of Burgundy concluded a peace treaty at Windsor. Henry arranged that Spain, the Netherlands and England should unite in a strong anti-French alliance. The death of Prince Arthur meant that Prince Henry became Duke of Cornwall. Henry Tudor had his faults and may well have been paranoid by the end of the century, but he had reason to be. It was she who was intent on spoiling the party for Henry VII when, so the narrative runs, the great first Tudor was frustrated in his fine purpose by the activities of those two historical oddities, the pretenders Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. Other St Leger daughters made reasonably prosperous marriages into the English gentry during the sixteenth century, escaping any notable attention from the Tudor regime. King Henry VII of England and Wales 1457 – 1509 Timeline. Richard III took all of Henry’s mother’s property. Prince Arthur and Catherine made their home in Ludlow Castle in the Welsh Marches. From this point onwards Burgundy was in a state of decline, and relations between the two countries improved. He needed the allegiance of the remaining members, whether grudging or not, and more importantly required the assiduous service of their influential, and experienced, servants. Your email address will not be published. William Brandon; Henry VII’s Standard Bearer, John Blanke, the Tudors ‘blacke trumpeter’, Sir William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke: Edward IV’s ‘Master Lock’, The Death of an Earl: An Extract from “Margaret Pole: The Countess in the Tower”, All For Love: Katherine Swnyford and Joan Beaufort, 10 Facts about the Weapons used in the Battle of Bosworth, Silenced at Sea; The Lancastrian Duke and his Yorkist King, New Campaign for a Henry Tudor Statue and Visitor Centre in Pembroke, Henry Tudor Statue Campaign – Birthday Update, Henry Tudor Statue Campaign – Maquette Unveiled, A Call for the BBC to rerun The Shadow of the Tower (1972). Yet, he had to do all of this without losing face, losing the battle, or spending huge amounts of money. But Margaret could still do as she pleased. After his marriage, Henry used as his emblem the red and white rose, which became known as the Tudor rose. Of the females, most were married to men close to the Tudor regime, and whilst marriages to comparatively low-born men has been interpreted as an act of callousness, none were slaughtered, killed, imprisoned or ruined. Thomas Wolsey became senior bursar of Magdalen College, Oxford. While there he managed to escape to the sanctuary of a monastery. *Please note: you may not see animations, interactions or images that are potentially on this page because you have not allowed Flash to run on S-cool. A son, Edmund was born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York at Greenwich Palace. He couldn’t marry Elizabeth until January 1486 because of legal complications, due to her family being made illegitimate, there was the question of his coronation to show his claim didn’t depend on his marriage, but also he was related to Elizabeth and needed a dispensation from the Pope.