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7 unusual facts about Henry VII


Della Torre

Having tried to raise the people against the Emperor Henry VII, Guido was forced to flee, and died in 1312.

East Stoke, Nottinghamshire

In 1487 East Stoke was the scene of possibly the bloodiest battle in British history: the Battle of Stoke Field between Yorkist rebels (supported by largely Irish and Swiss mercenaries) facing the army of Henry VII.

Fair Margaret

Fair Margaret is a 1907 novel by H. Rider Haggard set in the time of Henry VII.

Henry VII, Count of Waldeck

In 1395, he was made to swear that he would never again invade Paderborn, and Waldeck had to transfer its share in the castle and town of Liebenau to Paderborn.

Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

The tomb was built in 1315 by Tino di Camaino and was composed by the grave itself, the statue of Henry VII lying above it and many other statues and angels.

Lady Margaret School

The School was named after the Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, founder of St John's and Christ's Colleges, Cambridge, and a benefactress of education.

Tudor architecture

Hammerbeam roofs still in use from medieval period under Henry VII and remained so until 1603 for great halls, but were more decorative: often had corbels the were carved into beasts or had geometric patterns


1490s in England

5 March - King Henry VII issues letters patent to Italian-born adventurer John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to discover unknown lands.

Amanda Hale

In June 2013, she played Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, in the BBC series The White Queen, based on Philippa Gregory's bestselling historical novel series The Cousins' War.

Archbishop's Palace, Charing

Later both Henry VII and Henry VIII stayed at the Palace, the latter on his way to the Field of the Cloth of Gold.

Bardi, Emilia-Romagna

In 1269 the castle was stormed by the Guelphs, and the commune of Piacenza held it until 1307, when Emperor Henry VII gave it back to Umbertino II Landi.

Barnard Flower

He was King's Glazier to Henry VII and Henry VIII from 1505 to 1517, the first non-Englishman to hold this office.

Charles IV of France

In 1322 he married Marie of Luxembourg, daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor.

His second wife, Marie of Luxembourg, the daughter of Henry VII, the Holy Roman Emperor, died following a premature birth.

College of Minor Canons

These statutes of 1396 were confirmed by successive monarchs, as by Henry VII in 1487 and Elizabeth I in 1566.

English Gothic architecture

Notable later examples include Bath Abbey (c.1501-c.1537, although heavily restored in the 1860s), Henry VII's Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey (1503–1519), and the towers at St Giles' Church, Wrexham and St Mary Magdalene, Taunton (1503-1508).

Giovanni Pisano

His last major work dates probably from 1313 when he made a monument in memory of Margaret of Brabant (who died in 1311) at the request of her husband emperor Henry VII.

Golden Lion, Fulham

Faulkner, in his History of Fulham, supposes the original mansion to have been of the time of Henry VII; and that it was the residence of Bishop Bonner.

John Woodnutt

He had many television and film roles, including that of Henry VII in the first episode of The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1970); Sir Watkyn Bassett in the television version of Jeeves and Wooster (1990 to 1993); and Merlin and Mogdred in the children's adventure game programme Knightmare (1987–1990).

John Yonge

He was ordained in 1500 and held several livings before receiving his first diplomatic mission to arrange a commercial treaty with the archduke of Austria in 1504, and in the Low Countries in 1506 in connection with the projected marriage between Henry VII and Margaret of Savoy.

Margery Wentworth

Margery's father, Henry Wentworth, rose to be a critical component of Yorkshire and Suffolk politics: in 1489, during the Yorkshire uprising against Henry VII who had championed unity and married the female main claimant heir of increasingly irrelevant, dying dynasty, he left his home and was named the steward of Knaresborough, earning him the privilege to keep the peace in the name of the first Earl of Surrey.

Maxstoke Castle

Amongst the antiquities there is a 15th-century chair upon which Henry VII was crowned after the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, a table owned by Sir Everard Digby (cousin to the Digbys of Coleshill) around which the Gunpowder Plot was planned in 1605, and a 'Whispering Door' (two doors with a common jamb) brought from Kenilworth Castle.

Pub games

Henry VII's statute of 1495 restricted "the indoor games which were distracting Tudor pubmen from archery".

RAF Chapel

At the eastern end of Westminster Abbey in the magnificent Lady Chapel built by King Henry VII is the RAF Chapel dedicated to the men of the Royal Air Force who died in the Battle of Britain between July and October 1940.

Stonehouse, Plymouth

During the reign of Henry VII defences at the mouth of the Tamar were strengthened by the building of cannon-bearing towers.

Tandridge, Surrey

Due to the Cousins' Wars she became widow of Warwick the king-maker and was finally compelled to convey her enormous estates to Henry VII.

Thomas Spring of Lavenham

Spring played a large part in defeating supporters of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, who claimed the throne from Henry VII.


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Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy

Lewys Morgannwg states that she and her husband welcomed King Henry VII, his Earls and possibly his Queen to Troy House, Mitchel Troy near Monmouth in August 1502.

Brotherhood of Saint George

Apart from Lord Howth, who had a connection by marriage to the new Tudor dynasty, almost all the nobility associated with the Brotherhood supported the claims of the Yorkist pretender Lambert Simnel, and some of them followed him to his crushing defeat by Henry VII at the Battle of Stoke in 1487.

Château de Suscinio

From 1471 to 1483, the castle housed Jasper Tudor, Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII of England), and the core of their group of exiled Lancastrians, numbering about 500 by 1483.

Edmund de Ros, 10th Baron de Ros

Under Henry VII, who united the houses of York and Lancaster, the attainder was reversed; and Edmund, Lord Ros, was reinstated in his ancestral property; Belvoir had been in the possession of the Hastings family for more than twenty years.

Elizabeth Plantagenet

Elizabeth of York, eldest daughter of Edward IV and wife of Henry VII

Frances Grey

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk (1517–1559), granddaughter of Henry VII of England and mother of Queen Jane Grey

Henry VII of Brzeg

In 1365 Henry VII, together with his cousin Rupert I took part in the expedition of Emperor Charles IV to Provence, during which he visited, among others, the city of Avignon, where he tried to obtain a Prebendary from his family.

Margaret Beaufort

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443–1509), the daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset (first creation) and the mother of Henry VII of England.

Margaret Stanley

Margaret Stanley, Countess of Derby (1540–1596), great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England

Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1443–1509), married name Margaret Stanley, mother of Henry VII of England

New Monarchs

England did not have as hard a time as France in weakening the nobles because Henry VII comes to power after the War of Roses, which was between two noble families, his family, the House of Lancaster and his rivals, the House of York.

Richard Pole

Sir Richard Pole (1462–1505), Welsh supporter of King Henry VII and husband of Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury

Roger de Beaufeu

Later on, one Humfrey Beaufo of Bereford St. John, Oxfordshire, is mentioned by Dugdale as having married Joan Hugford, whereby the manors of Edmondscote or Emscote in Warwickshire, and Whilton in Northamptonshire, passed into his family in the reign of Henry VII.

Succession to Elizabeth I of England

Descent from the two daughters of Henry VII who reached adulthood, Margaret and Mary Tudor, was the first and main issue in the succession.

Thomas Dacre, 2nd Baron Dacre

Much of these lands had been inherited through marriages to the heiresses of the Greystoke, de Multon and de Vaux families as well as grants by both Henry VII and Henry VIII.

Walter Hungerford

Sir Walter Hungerford of Farleigh (d. 1516), fought for Henry VII at the Battle of Bosworth Field.

Warbeck

Perkin Warbeck (circa 1474–1499), pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII of England

Woking Palace

The palace was moated and can be separated into four parts: north east quadrant; the medieval barrel vault and the King's Hall, built by Henry VII in 1508, in the south east; the King’s Garden on the south west; and the Copse to the north west, once the orchard.