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- [S6040] FindAGrave Old World, Jasper Tudor 1431-1495.
Sir Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, was a Lancastrian who played an important role in the Wars of the Roses and in the establishment of the Tudor dynasty upon the throne of England.
Tudor was the son of Owen Tudor and Queen Catherine, the widow of King Henry V of England and daughter of King Charles VI of France. He was knighted by his maternal half-brother, King Henry VI, on 25 Dec 1449, accepted into the Order of the Garter 27 Oct 1485. He held positions of the highest responsibility, including Privy Councillor to the King, High Steward of Oxford University, and Lord Deputy for Ireland. Yet when Henry VI went mad and was removed by the Yorkists in 1461 he was attainted and stripped of his Honors; which he regained in 1479 after being instrumental in Henry's brief restoration.
Jasper fled to Brittany after the Battle of Barnet in 1471 and was again brought down-- but he had a genius for the unique kind of double-dealing endemic to the Age, the kind that establishes a real loyalty to one side and a contingent sort of acquiescence in unexpected good fortune enjoyed by the other. This kind of diplomacy doesn't rise to the level of treachery, and he was to regain his Honors and his high station once again.
After he helped arrange the marriage of his nephew, King Henry VII, that ended the Dynastic Wars and created the Tudor dynasty; Jasper bore the crown of bride Elizabeth of York (Edward IV's daughter) at the Coronation.
Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, was buried at Keynsham Abbey, located at Keynsham, Somerset, England and founded circa 1166 by William, Earl of Gloucester. The Dissolution of the Monasteries during the reign of Henry VIII initiated a slow process by which the monastery structures were dismantled for building materials. All that remains today are ruins. It is consequently considered a defunct burial site.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/71377883/jasper-tudor
- [S1020] Military History, Wars of the Roses: Battle of Bosworth Field.
http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/battleswars14011600/p/bosworth.htm
- [S1030] Wikipedia: Jasper Tudor, (Name: Wikipedia;), Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford.
Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford (November 1431 – 21/26 December 1495), was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and a leading architect of his nephew's successful accession to the throne in 1485. He was from the noble Tudor family of Penmynydd in North Wales.
Jasper Tudor's coat of arms, granted to him by his maternal half-brother, King Henry VI, quarters the three lilies of France with the three lions of England, with the addition of a bordure azure with martlets or (that is, a blue border featuring golden martlets).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Tudor
- [S1023] Wikipedia: Owen Tudor, (Name: Wikipedia;), Owen Tudor.
Sir Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur,[a] c. 1400 – 2 February 1461) was a Welsh courtier and the second husband of Queen Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), widow of King Henry V of England. He was the grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Henry V of England died on 31 August 1422, leaving his wife, Queen Catherine, widowed.[5] The dowager queen initially lived with her infant son, King Henry VI, before moving to Wallingford Castle early in his reign.
Catherine was rumoured to have had an affair with Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset. These rumours, though based on questionable evidence, prompted a response from her son's regents, who objected to Somerset as a possible husband as he was a second cousin of Henry V through the legitimised Beaufort line sired by John of Gaunt. A parliamentary statute regulating the remarriage of widowed queens[how?] was passed. She subsequently married Owen Tudor[1] and gave birth to three sons: Edmund, Jasper and Edward (see below).[6][7]
Historian G. L. Harriss suggested that the affair with Beaufort resulted in the birth of Edmund Tudor. Harriss wrote, "By its very nature the evidence for Edmund Tudor's parentage is less than conclusive, but such facts, as can be assembled, permit an agreeable possibility that Edmund 'Tudor' and Margaret Beaufort were first cousins and that the royal house of 'Tudor' sprang in fact from Beauforts on both sides."
Following Queen Catherine's death, Owen Tudor lost the protection from the statute on dowager queens' remarriage and was imprisoned in Newgate Prison.[9] In 1438 he escaped but was later recaptured and held in the custody of the constable of Windsor Castle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Tudor
- [S1024] Wikipedia: Catherine of Valois, (Name: Wikipedia;), Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France.
Catherine was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of Charles VI of France, she was married to Henry V of England[1] and gave birth to his heir Henry VI of England. Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and perhaps end what is now known as the Hundred Years' War, but although her son Henry VI was later crowned in Paris, this ultimately failed.
After Henry V's death, Catherine's later marriage with Owen Tudor proved the springboard of the Tudor family's fortunes, eventually leading to their grandson's elevation as Henry VII of England.[2] Catherine's older sister Isabella was also a Queen of England as the child bride of Richard II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois
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1431 - 1495 (64 years)
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