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unusual facts about King Henry VII



Blackfriars, Leicester

In 1489 King Henry VII donated oaks to the friary for the reconstruction of the friar's dormitory.

Feoffee

This had a considerably deleterious effect on the royal finances, which state of affairs was rectified by the aggressive and imaginative new fiscal measures taken by King Henry VII after his accession in 1485.

Martine Croxall

The school is situated near to the exact place where King Henry VII was crowned immediately after the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485.

Monarchy in Prince Edward Island

What is today Prince Edward Island was discovered and claimed by John Cabot for King Henry VII, though it was later, in 1523, also claimed by Giovanni da Verrazzano for King Francis I, putting Île Saint-Jean, as Verrazzno called it, under the sovereignty of the French Crown until 1758.

Yeomen of the Guard

Top left: a crowned hawthorn bush and the letters HR, representing King Henry VII and the legend that the crown was discovered by the guard in a hawthorn bush following the Battle of Bosworth.


see also

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.

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.

Richard Pole

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

Warbeck

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