Jasper Tudor


Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Pembroke, KG was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and the architect of his successful conquest of England and Wales in 1485. He was from the noble Tudor family of Penmynydd in North Wales.

Jasper was born at the Bishop of Elys manor at Hatfield in Hertfordshire in 1429, his parents second child. His older brother, Edmund, was born at Much Hadham Palace in 1430. His younger brother, Owen, was born in 1432 at Westminster Abbey, when the Dowager Queen was visiting her eldest son and her water broke prematurely, forcing her to seek the help of the Abbeys monks. According to Henry VIIs personal historian Polydore Vergil, Owen was taken and raised by the monks to become a member of the order, living under the name Edward Bridgewater until his death in 1502. Vergil also mentions a daughter who became a nun, but little is known of her. Catherines last child would be born in 1437, mere days before her own untimely death onJanuary.

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