As Margaret was under the age of majority, Jasper was awarded guardianship of the infant Henry, and served as the young boy's protector and advisor for most of his life, despite a long separation during his nephew's youth, when his guardianship was granted elsewhere during the first portion of Edward IV's reign. After Edmund's death - an early victim of the political and military maneuvering that preceded the civil war between Lancaster and York - Jasper took charge of Margaret, a pregnant widow only 13 years old. Though it was Catherine's oldest son Edmund, Earl of Richmond, who would marry Margaret Beaufort and father the first Tudor monarch, it was Jasper's lifelong devotion to Margaret that ensured the survival of the young Henry VII and his ultimate rise to the throne. Half-brother to Henry VI, son of a former queen of England and commoner and a Welshman, ennobled by his royal brother's wish but holding lands in rebellious Wales, Jasper is a Lancastrian by blood, and during the early years of the wars, fiercely loyal to his brother Henry. In First of the Tudors, we see the early years of the Wars of the Roses through the eyes of a semi-outsider. King Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou with saints, c.Joanna Hickson, author of The Agincourt Bride and The Tudor Bride - novels dealing with the life of Catherine Valois, ancestress of the Tudors - continues to follow the early days of the Tudor dynasty with First of the Tudors, a novel featuring Catherine's second son, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke.EDMUND AND JASPER TUDOR AND MARGARET BEAUFORT.PORTRAIT OF ELISA BACIOCCHI, GREAT DUCHESS OF TUSCANY.King Arthur: the 'facts' about the legendary figure.Grande Armee's Invasion Practice for Invasion of.Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table.HOUSE OF LANCASTER: THE TWO REIGNS OF HENRY VI 142.Jasper himself was still not married and wouldn't find a bride for almost 30 years. The child was a son born in 1457, and was named Henry. The couple were married in 1455.Įdmund Tudor died in November 1456 and his brother Jasper took Margaret the child she was carrying into his protection. The annulment may have come at the request of the King, who also may have been the one to match Margaret and Edmund Tudor. The Marquess himself was murdered in 1450 and in early 1453, the marriage of John and Margaret was annulled. A few years later, Margaret was married to John de la Pole, the heir of the Marquess of Suffolk. Her father died in 1444, leaving his young daughter a very desirable bride. However, Henry IV added the caveat that the Beauforts could never inherit the throne. John later married Katherine and their children from before the marriage were made legitimate by Parliament in 1397. 1410), who was the eldest son of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster and his mistress Katherine Swynford. Margaret's grandfather was John Beaufort (d. In March 1453, Edmund and Jasper were given joint custody of Margaret Beaufort, heiress of the Duke of Somerset. Along with the titles came estates and revenues, as well as the potential of noble brides. The new earls were given precedent over all the other nobles of the realm save the dukes and the King and Queen. But the Tudors had no blood connection to the English throne at this time (although they did to the throne of France through their mother Katherine of Valois). They had been formally recognized at the half brothers of the King whose uncles - other possible heirs - were all dead by this time. It is not really possible that the two Tudor brothers were looked to as heirs of Henry VI (who had been married to Margaret of Anjou for seven years but still had no children). Their brother Owen was already a monk at Westminster Abbey. In 1452, Edmund and Jasper Tudor were formally brought into the royal family and were made earls: Edmund the Earl of Richmond and Jasper the Earl of Pembroke.
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