BY:
Astancai Nicoleta
Neculai Andreea
Henry
Tudor
HENRY TUDOR
Henry VII was born in
1457 to Edmund Tudor
and Margaret Beaufort.
Henry VII was the King
of England and Lord of
Ireland from his seizure of
the crown on 22 August
1485 to his death on 21 April
1509. He was the first
monarch of the House of
Tudor.
HENRY TUDOR
He was the
last king of
England to
win his
throne on the
field of battle.
King Henry Tudor
Richard III
HENRY TUDOR
Henry Tudor Elizabeth of
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As king, Henry was
called His Grace—his full title
was: Henry, by the Grace of
God, King of England and
France and Lord of Ireland. On
his succession, Henry became
entitled to bear the Royal Arms
of England. After his marriage
he used the red-and-white rose
as his emblem which became
known as the Tudor rose.
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Henry VII was known
for his avarice and
cultivation of peace. His
particular interest in
finances became manifest
as he supervised financial
transactions and imposed
customary dues .
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Henry succeeded in crushing the
independence of the nobility by means of a
policy of forced loans and fines. He set
heavy fines for any barons that were
planning secret armies against him, he
heavily taxed them to reduce their wealth.
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Henry VII’s reign is characterized by:
• peace and prosperity,
• political alliances with Spain and Scotland,
• advantageous commercial treaties,
• development of trade and cloth industry,
• reorganization of navy and army, and the
State administration,
• creation of a merchant fleet.
'Henry was acutely aware of the
importance of strong finances if
he was to remain safely on the
throne.'
-Caroline Rodgers
Henry made some very good
alliances with France, Spain and
Scotland this helped him to
avoid war with these countries.
He married his son Arthur to
Catharine of Aragón, daughter of
Ferdinand II of Aragón and
Isabella of Castile. . He signed
the Treaty of Perpetual Peace in
1502 and married his daughter
Margaret to James IV of
Scotland. His youngest daughter
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Henry died on 21 Apr 1509 at Richmond
Palace, Surrey.
Henry VIII, succeeded him.
Henry died on 21st April 1509.
Written on his tomb:
“Henry VII rests within this
tomb, he who was the
splendour of kings and light
of the world, a wise and
watchful monarch, a
courteous lover of virtue,
outstanding in beauty,
vigorous and mighty; who
brought peace to his
kingdom, who waged very
many wars, who always
returned victorious from the
enemy […] No earlier ages
Elizabeth of
York: a Tudor
of rare talent
ELIZABETH OF YORK
Elizabeth of York was
the eldest daughter of
the Yorkist king Edward
IV, sister of the princes
in the Tower, and niece
of Richard III. Her
marriage to Henry VII
was hugely popular, for
the union of the white
rose of York and the red
rose of Lancaster was
ELIZABETH OF YORK
The probable murder of
her brothers in the Tower of
London in 1483 meant that,
in the eyes of many,
Elizabeth was the rightful
queen of England. Richard
III himself contemplated
marrying her, but in 1485
Henry Tudor, who claimed
to be the heir to the House
of Lancaster and had sworn
to marry Elizabeth, came
ELIZABETH OF YORK
• Elizabeth was intelligent
and beautiful. A Venetian
report described her as
“a very handsome woman
of great ability, and in
conduct very able,”
beloved for her abundant
“charity and humanity”.
The humanist scholar
Erasmus described her in
one word: “brilliant”.
ELIZABETH OF YORK
• Elizabeth performed her
queenly role to perfection,
understanding exactly what
was required of her, and
conforming seemingly
effortlessly to the late
medieval ideal of queenship,
which constrained her to a
role that was essentially
decorous, symbolic and
dynastic. She was beautiful,
devout, fertile and kind – the
traditional good queen.
HER DEATH
• “Here lies Queen
Elizabeth, daughter of the
former King Edward IV,
sister of the formerly
appointed King Edward V,
once the wife of King
Henry VII, and the
renowned mother of Henry
VIII. She met her day of
death in the Tower of
London on the 11th day of
February in the year of Our
Lord 1502, having fulfilled
the age of 37 years”
RISING TO THE
CHALLENGE
• But Elizabeth’s Plantagenet blood
and her superior claim to the
throne placed her in a difficult
position, especially when Yorkist
pretenders emerged to contest
Henry VII’s throne. How she rose
to these challenges we do not
know, yet we can surely infer,
from the emerging harmony of
her married life, that she took
care never to be controversial
and always to place her
husband’s interests first.
Elizabeth’s legacy to the Tudor dynasty
was her Plantagenet blood, which
compensated for any deficiency in Henry
VII’s descent. Her goodness shines forth
in the records; she was greatly loved, and
deservedly so. Certainly the sources show
that she deserves a lot more credit for
her political accomplishments than most
historians have been prepared to give her
– and that she was highly active within
the late medieval queen’s traditional
spheres of influence. It is also clear that,
far from living in subjection to Henry VII
and his mother, Margaret Beaufort, she
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