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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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House of Tudor
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(1485–1603) The descendants on the throne of England of Owen Tudor (c.1400–1461), a Welsh adventurer in the service of *Henry V who after the king's death married his widow, Catherine, the daughter of the king of France. Their eldest son, Edmund (c.1430–56) married Margaret Beaufort, who was descended from *John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and so had a distant claim to the throne (see the *royal house). Her son, *Henry VII, used this claim to overthrow the house of York at the end of the *Wars of the Roses. He then married a Yorkist princess (Elizabeth, daughter of *Edward IV), and so was able to claim that their descendants reunited the two rival lines. The Tudor monarchs, after Henry VII himself, were Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. They were followed by the house of *Stuart.
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