#OTD 18 Mar 1496
#MaryTudor was born to #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork
Married #LouisXII of France in 1514 & widowed less than 3mths later
Secretly married #CharlesBrandon Duke of Suffolk against her brother #HenryVIII’s wishes, they were heavily fined but kept their heads!
#TheTudors
#History
#OTD 11 Feb 1466
The 1st #TudorQueen, Elizabeth of York was born
Eldest child of #EdwardIV & #ElizabethWoodville & consort to #HenryVII
Their marriage saw the end of #TheWarsoftheRoses
She died #OTD 1503 her 37th birthday days after giving birth to a daughter who also sadly died
#Tudor #History
#OTD
9th February 1506
The Treaty of Windsor was signed between England and Castile.
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#KingHenryVII #HenryVII #TreatyofWindsor #England #Castile #Tudors #History
Robert #Fayrfax 1464-1521 English #Renaissance composer during reigns of #HenryVII & #HenryVIII
Gentleman of the #ChapelRoyal
… a major influence on later composers, incl JohnTaverner & ThomasTallis
« Magnificat Regale à 5 »
youtu.be/j7k273SVNpk 14:24
#CardinallsMusick #AndrewCarwood #DavidSkinner
📚💙⏳ The frontispiece of the 'Mirror of Gold for the Sinful Soul', was a devotional work by Margaret Beaufort, Henry Vli's mother. printed in 1506. Queen Elizabeth I made a translation of the work when she was a princess.
#MargaretBeaufort #Henryvii #henryviii #Elizabethl #devotional
#OTD 2 Feb 1503
Katherine Tudor was born at the Tower Of London
#HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork's last child, an attempt to provide a spare heir following Arthur's death
Tragically, neither she nor her mother survived long after birth, & were buried together at Westminster Abbey
Henry mourned deeply
#HenryTudor was born in Wales #OnThisDay in 1457, becoming king of #England in 1485 by defeating Richard III. #HenryVII was the first of the #Tudors & one of the best; the 1972 BBC series "The Shadow of the Tower" dramatizes his reign:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6F...
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Today is the birthday of Henry VII - and speaking of royalty, have you seen our Kings and Queens of England poster print? It's the best you'll find online and perfect for fans of the Royal Family!
#HenryVII #KingsAndQueens
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💙📚⏳ Henry VIII died on 28 Jan 1547 which is exactly 90 years after Henry VII was born.
A perfect Tudor full‑circle moment.
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#HenryVIII #HenryVII #OTD #KU #readers
#OTD 28 Jan 1457
A Dynasty was born
#MargaretBeaufort gave birth to the 1st Tudor King #HenryVII
Spending much of his early life in exile, his later marriage to #ElizabethofYork joined the warring Yorkists & Lancastrian & they ruled successfully for 24yrs
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#Tudor
#History
#OTD
28th January 1457
At Pembroke Castle, a young woman, who had yet to reach her fourteenth birthday, gave birth to a son & named him Henry.
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#HenryTudor #EarlofRichmond #KingHenryVII #HenryVII #MargaretBeaufort #PembrokeCastle #Tudors #History
#OTD 24 Jan 1502
#HenryVII signed The Treaty of Perpetual Peace with #JamesIV
To seal the treaty joining the 2 nations, was a marriage between ‘The Thistle & the Rose’ Henry's daughter, #MargaretTudor to James’ heir
They married by proxy the following day
Spoiler Alert: The peace didn't last!
#OTD
24th January 1503
The foundation stone of King Henry VII's chapel was laid at Westminster Abbey.
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King Henry VII’s Chapel, Westminster Abbey
Photo © The Tudor Age
#KingHenryVII #HenryVII #WestminsterAbbey #Tudors #History
A compelling discussion of #MargaretBeaufort with @nicolatallis.bsky.social and @historywithjackson.bsky.social:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL2t... #history #EdwardIV #HenryVI #HenryVII #Tudors
More trompe l'oeil frames (including Henry VII's, who married wife 1 on 18 Jan 1486)...
For Uccello see: theframeblog.com/2024/07/26/n...
#Frames #TrompeLOeilFrames #Illusions #15thCenturyFrames #HenryVII #NationalPortraitGallery #NGofIreland #Rijksmuseum #TheFrameBlog
#OTD 18 Jan 1486
#HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork married uniting the warring houses of Lancaster & York beginning 118yrs of #Tudor rule
Elizabeth's lineage certainly strengthen the Tudor claim
Their happy marriage produced 7 children 4 reached maturity Arthur, Margaret, Henry & Mary 3 wore👑
#Tudor
In celebration of my book release for, “If Any Person will Meddle of My Cause: The Judicial Murder of Anne Boleyn”, please enjoy this post as my first stop! maidensandmanuscripts.com/2026/01/12/s... #anneboleyn #BookRelease #HenryVII
Sharing a small work-in-progress while we put the bigger pieces together. More art, lore, and concepts arriving shortly.
#henryvii #tudor #digitalart #coin
The dad of Henry VIII
My review of review of S.B. Chrimes’ Henry VII #Englishhistory #HenryVII #KingofEngland #SBChrimes #WarsortheRoses
History Book Reviews: UNLIKELY RULER jeremyshistoryreviews.blogspot.com/2011/12/unli...
#OTD 28 Nov 1489
#MargaretTudor, eldest daughter of #HenryVII & #ElizabethofYork was born
She became #Queenofthescots at 12 marrying #JamesIV who was killed at the Battle of Flodden
Through her marriages she was grandmother to both Mary Queen of Scots & Henry Stuart Lord Darnley
#Tudor
#History
#OTD 15 Nov 1527
#CatherineofYork last surviving child of #EdwardIV & #ElizabethWoodville died at Tiverton Castle buried at nearby St Peter's
Married to William Courtenay in 1495 arranged by #HenryVII, they had 3 children
L-R Elizabeth, Cecily, Anne, Catherine & Mary @cburycathedral.bsky.social
#OnThisDay in 1507, First named reference to royal trumpeter John Blanke, the first black person whose image survives from Tudor England, in payment for services by #HenryVII.
I’ve bought my ticket! I’m looking forward to learning more about #HenryVII, an under-rated monarch in my view - and to meeting @nathenamin.bsky.social
#OTD 1 Nov 1455
Welshman Edmund Tudor 25 of French Royal blood married an heiress descended from English royalty, #MargaretBeaufort 12 at Bletsoe Castle
Their son #HenryVII the 1st monarch of the #TheTudorDynasty
Herstory youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Edmund died OTD 1456
@tudorhistetc.bsky.social
Young Henry VII (French, Musée Calvet, Avignon, 1470-1480).
King Henry VII’s Coat of Arms.
#OTD in 1485 #HenryTudor, Earl of Richmond was coronated as King #HenryVII of England. 1/2
#OTD 30 Oct 1485
The 1st #Tudor monarch, #HenryVII was crowned @westminsterabbey.bsky.social thus ending #thewarsoftheroses
Henry assumed the crown having fought #RichardIII at the Battle of Bosworth Field in August
Also #OTD 1485 the Yeomen of the Guard was formed, sworn to protect the Kings Body!
Seven of the most brutal encounters of the Wars of the Roses, battles that show how vicious a civil war on English soil could be. flip.it/jXXWEC #warsoftheroses #tudors #history #historyblogger #englishhistory #blogger #flipboardusergroup #henryVII #richardIII #battles
I do wish I was able to get to this talk on #HenryVII and Elizabeth of York by Nathan Amin - it’ll be great. #Tudor #history
BATTLE BOSWORTH 1788 HUTTON Illust RICHARD III HENRY VII War Roses HISTORY 1st
#books #antiquarian #history #battle #Bosworth #military #RichardIII #HenryVII #kings #monarchy #York #Tudor #war #Leicestershire #firstedition #bookauction
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#OTD in 1485: Richard III was killed at Bosworth.
Henry Tudor emerged victorious, married Elizabeth of York, and forged a new dynasty — the Tudors.
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#OnThisDay #RichardIII #HenryVII #Bosworth #Tudors #WarsOfTheRoses
