Thomas, ‘Tudor, Jasper, duke of Bedford (c.1431–1495)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (October 2008). Katherine survived him and married two months later Richard Wingfield. He died on 21 December 1495 at his manor of Thornbury in Gloucestershire. Once Henry became king he rewarded his uncle handsomely.īy 7 November 1485, he had married Katherine Woodville, widow of Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, and younger sister of Elizabeth, Edward IV’s queen. Their son Henry was born after his father’s death and his uncle played an important role in his upbringing and championing his nephew’s cause. Jasper’s elder brother, Edmund, was married to Margaret Beaufort. 1431 at Bishops Hatfield, Herts, which belonged to the Bishops of Ely. Jasper Tudor was the second son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, the widow of Henry V. Jasper Tudor, uncle of Henry Tudur (Henry VII), died on 21 December 1495. Tags: Henry Tudor, Margaret Beaufort, Richard III Michael Jones, ‘Lady Margaret Beaufort’, History Today, Volume 35, Issue 8 (August 1985). Underwood, ‘Beaufort, Margaret, countess of Richmond and Derby (1443–1509)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 In June 1472 she married Thomas Stanley, surviving him for five years until her own death on 29 June 1509, just two months after her son had died. However, her marriage to Henry Stafford seems to have been happy. She gave birth to Edmund’s son Henry on 28 January 1457, who would later defeat King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth and take the crown as Henry VII. She married in 1455 Edmund Tudor, but he died on 1 November 1456 from the plague. She had been married as a child to John de la Pole, though the marriage was soon dissolved. On 3 January 1462, Margaret Beaufort married Henry Stafford, son of Humphrey, duke of Buckingham. Catherine Woodville (b.1458: d.Margaret Beaufort Marriage of Margaret Beaufort and Henry Stafford Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford (b.1429: d.1495) m. I see perhaps Margaret Courtney or Jane/Elizabeth/Margaret Stanley, or perhaps both if we have the Stanley girl doesn't survive one of her childbirths. For our Edmund, I can see some form of semi-royal bride, or perhaps just a woman with some clout with the royal family. And in 1511 she's only be around 17/18, so it could work. If not him, then I can see a match with Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, but that's a little too close for comfort. If Catherine is unattached by 1511, then the widowed Thomas Howard would make a good husband, particularly because I can see Catherine wanting some sort of Duke if she can, if just because 2 of her brothers are Dukes in this scenario. Now where'd they marry is an interesting question. Perhaps Henry or Edmund for the boy (I personally think Edmund, if just in memory of his brother, although Owen works too) and Catherine, Jacquetta (probably not but still) or Margaret for the girl (I like Catherine better, just to be a callback to Jasper's French Royal mother. So I can see the names being fairly conventional and callbacks to their Tudor roots. Jasper, meanwhile, went with Helen/Ellen and Joan, both fairly simple, conventional and English names. Catherine went with fairly conventional with her choices, they were all royal names connected with the Yorks. Name wise, we have to look at how Catherine and Jasper named their own children OTL. Thus, I can see these children being very highly prized in the marriage market and probable favourites of the ROYAL Tudor line. These are two young people with very strong links to the royal family with absolutely no real claim to the throne. If he and Catherine had a son around 1488/89 and maybe a daughter around 1493/94, then we have an interesting scenario. And Catherine was only 27 when they married, although he was 56. Ok so, Catherine had 4 healthy children at this point, and Jasper had at least 1 if not 2 acknowledged illegitimate, so children weren't necessarily off the table.
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