TUDOR, EDMUND (c. 1430 - 1456)

Father of Henry VII, eldest son of Owain Tudor by Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V. For the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. Brought up in England under the tutelage of his royal half-brother, Henry VI, by whom he was created earl of Richmond in 1452-3, he had no connection with Wales until after his marriage in 1455 to the lady Margaret Beaufort, daughter of John Beaufort, duke of Somerset. But the fact that he died at Carmarthen on 3 November 1456, suggests that like his brother Jasper Tudor he was intended for an administrative career in Wales. He was buried in the house of the Grey Friars at Carmarthen, his remains being translated at the Dissolution to S. Davids cathedral. His son, Henry, 2nd earl of Richmond and later the first Tudor king, was born posthumously. Lewis Glyn Cothi and Dafydd Nanmor composed elegies upon him.

Author

• Professor Thomas Jones Pierce, (1905 - 1964)

Sources

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
• Archaeologia Cambrensis, III, xv, 394
• The poetical works of Lewis Glyn Cothi (Oxford 1837), 492
• Thomas Roberts and Ifor Williams (eds), The Poetical Works of Dafydd Nanmor (Cardiff 1923), 34-6, 41-2
• Howell T. Evans, Wales and the Wars of the Roses (Cambridge 1915)

Further Reading

• Wikipedia Article: Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond

Images

• NLW: Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby who built St. Winifride's crypt and chapel

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q361204

Published date: 1959

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