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  Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Katherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V.
Jasper was an adventurer whose military expertise, some of it gained in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses, was considerable.
Jasper was married on November 7, 1485 to Catherine Woodville (c.
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 Oliver Cromwell - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His alleged paternal ancestor Jasper Tudor was a younger brother of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and uncle to his son Henry VII of England.
Jasper was arguably the architect of the Tudor victory in the Battle of Bosworth Field against Richard III of England on August 22, 1485.
Both Edmund and Jasper Tudor were sons of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau de Bavière.
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 Encyclopedia: Wars of the Roses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (~1431 - April 14, 1471) was a Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses, best-known for eliminating Lancastrian resistance in the north of England during the early part of the reign of Edward IV of England.
George (Plantagenet), Duke of Clarence (October 21, 1449 - February 18, 1478) was the third son of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville, and the brother of King Edward IV of England.
Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset (1457 – September 20, 1501) was the eldest son of Elizabeth Woodville and consequently a stepson of Edward IV of England.
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 Tudor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tudor usually relates to the Tudor period in English history, which refers to the period of time between 1485 and 1558/1603 when the Tudor dynasty held the English throne.
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, uncle of King Henry VII
Tudor style refers to the style of architecture and decorative arts modelled on the original Tudor architecture produced in England between 1485 and 1603.
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 Duke of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The titles of Earl or Duke of Bedford (named after Bedford, England) were created several times in the peerage of England.
The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Bedford, all in the peerage of England, are: Marquess of Tavistock (created 1694), Earl of Bedford (1550), Baron Russell of Cheneys (1539), Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in the county of Northampton (1603) and Baron Howland of Streatham in the county of Surrey (1695).
The courtesy title of the Duke of Bedford's eldest son and heir is Marquess of Tavistock.
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 Encyclopedia: Tudor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Margaret Tudor (November 28, 1489 - November 24, 1541), the daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York, was a notable figure in the 16th century history of Scotland and England.
The Tudor style, a term applied to the Perpendicular style, was originally that of the English architecture and decorative arts produced under the Tudor dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603, characterized as an amalgam of Late Gothic style formalized by more concern for regularity and symmetry, with round...
Tudor architecture is the architecture of the Tudor period, ie.
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Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford takes possession of Cardiff Castle.
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 Pembroke Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Located in the centre of the town of Pembroke, it is one of the most impressive Norman castles in south Wales, first established in 1093, when the Norman Conquest of Wales was far from complete.
In 1138, it became the property of Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Pembroke.
Eventually it was given to Jasper Tudor along with the earldom, and he brought his widowed sister-in-law, Margaret Beaufort, to the castle to give birth to her only child, the future King Henry VII of England (1457).
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She was daughter to Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg, sister to Elizabeth Woodville, sister-in-law to Edward IV of England and widow to both Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford.
Mary Tudor was the fifth child and third daughter of Henry VII by Elizabeth of York.
Mary Tudor was married to Louis XII of France on 9 October, 1514.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
96 (inv 1399) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
180 (inv 1459) Jasper (Tudor), Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford.
Afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893.
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 Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford (ca 1431- December 1495) was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and the architect of his successful conquest of England and Wales in 1485.
He remained in touch with Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI, as she struggled to regain her son's inheritance, and he held Denbigh Castle for the Lancastrians.
He was created Duke of Bedford and married the former Katherine Woodville, sister of Queen Elizabeth Woodville and widow of the Duke of Buckingham.
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 Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He remained in touch with Margaret of Anjou, queen of Henry VI, as she struggled to regain her son's inheritance, and he held for the House of Lancaster.
He also brought up his nephew, Henry Tudor, whose father had died before his birth, until 1461, when custody was taken over by.
He died in December, 1495, and was buried at in Somerset.
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 Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On Henry's accession in 1485, Jasper was restored to all his former titles, including (Click link for more info and facts about Knight of the Garter) Knight of the Garter.
Jasper was married on November 7, 1485 to (Click link for more info and facts about Catherine Woodville) Catherine Woodville (c.
She was also the (A woman whose husband is dead especially one who has not remarried) widow of (Click link for more info and facts about Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham) Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham.
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 Henry VII of England . Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford . Richard III of England . Tower of London . January 18 . ...
Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Katherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V of England Henry V. Hence he was a half-brother to King Henry VI of England Henry VI, who, on attaining his majority, made Jasper Earl of Pembroke sometime in 1452...
Arthur Tudor 20 September, 1486 - 2 April, 1502 was the eldest son of Henry VII of England.
Mary Tudor March 28 1496 – June 25 1533, was the youngest daughter of Henry VII of England.
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 Catherine Woodville - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Catherine and her sister were the daughters of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers and Jacquetta of Luxembourg.
Her first husband was Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who is thought to have been some years her junior; he was a boy of eleven when they married in February, 1466.
Following Buckingham's execution for treason, she married Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, who died in 1495.
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 1488 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
February 3 - Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, at the tip of Africa becoming the first known European to travel this far south.
Troops loyal to King Charles VIII of France defeat rebel forces led by the Dukes of Orleans and Brittany in the main engagement of the.
September 9 - Francis II, Duke of Brittany (b.
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His mother Helen was reputed to be an illegitimate daughter of Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford.
At the accession of Queen Mary, the Duke of Norfolk and other state prisoners of high rank were in the Tower along with him; but the queen, on her first entry into London, set them all free.
Gardiner was restored to his bishopric and appointed lord chancellor, and he placed the crown on the queen's head at her coronation.
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 Read about Oliver Cromwell at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Oliver Cromwell and learn about Oliver Cromwell here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Oliver Cromwell descended from Catherine Cromwell (born circa 1483), an older sister of Tudor statesman
Jasper was arguably the architect of the Tudor victory in the
Stephan III, Duke of Bavaria-Ingolstadt and Thadea Visconti.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10200
Sir Jasper Tudor, 1st and last Duke of Bedford was the son of Sir Owen Tudor and Catherine de France.
She married, thirdly, Mikhail Aleksandrovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, son of Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich Romanov, Tsar of Russia and Marie Sophia Friederike Dagmar von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess of Denmark, on 15 October 1911 at Austria.
She married Pavel Aleksandrovich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia, son of Aleksandr II Nikolaievich Romanov, Tsar of Russia and Marie Prinzessin von Hessen und bei Rhein, on 10 October 1902 at Livorno, Italy.
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 Read about Tudor at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Tudor and learn about Tudor here!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Tudor usually relates to the Tudor period in
1485 and 1558/1603 when the Tudor dynasty held the English throne.
White Rose of York and the Red Rose of Lancaster.
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 Category:Dukes in the Peerage of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Articles in category "Dukes in the Peerage of England"
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
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 The Biography of Catherine of Valois, the Mother of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, and the Mother-In-Law of Lady ...
Catherine (or Katherine) of Valois was the mother of Sir Edmund Tudor, the 1st Earl of Richmond.
Sir Edmund Tudor, the 1st Earl of Richmond married Lady Margaret Beaufort on November 01, 1455 at Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire.
Their other two sons, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, were to play an important role in the future of the English monarchy.
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 Read about Catherine of Valois at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Catherine of Valois and learn about Catherine of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Owen Tudor, a Welsh courtier, who would become the founding father of the Tudor dynasty.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, were to play an important role in the future of the English monarchy.
Catherine died on January 3, 1437, in London, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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 Jasper TUDOR (D. Bedford)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jasper was the third son of Owen Tudor and the former queen Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V.
It was thanks to him that Henry acquired the tactical awareness that made it possible to defeat the far more experienced Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.
He was created Duke of Bedford and married the former Catherine Woodville, sister of Queen Elizabeth Woodville and widow of the Duke of Buckingham.
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 tudor
Tudor refers to the period 1485 - 1603, especially in relation to the History of England.
This coincides with the rule of the Tudor dynasty in England.
Tudor England: 1485 to 1603: Biographies, Portraits, Primary Sources and more
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 Articles - Oliver Cromwell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
His alleged paternal ancestor Jasper Tudor was a younger brother of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, uncle to his son Henry VII of England and son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria.
However the descent of Oliver Cromwell from Jasper is unverified and is doubtful in view of the tendency of Cromwell's supporters to fabricate claims of his descent from the Royal line.
This also occurred with the claim that Cromwell's ancestors on his mother's side could be traced back to a Scottish Stuart (from Stewart and originally Steward) prince shipwrecked on the Norfolk coast in 1406.
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