Henry VII Part 2

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Henry VII was born on January 28th. 1457 at Pembroke Castle, he was the only child of Lady Margaret Beauford and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond.

Henry VII made political capital from his Welsh ancestry, attracted military support, and safeguarded his army’s passage through Wales on his way to the Battle of Bosworth.

Henry VII lived in the Herbert household until 1469, when Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, went over to the Lancastrians. When Warwick restored Henry VI in 1470, Henry VII’s uncle Jasper Tudor returned from exile and brought Henry VII to court.

On his way to securing the throne, Henry VII declared himself king by right of conquest on the 21st of August in 1485.