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| richmond, edmund tudor, 1st earl of | |
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Tudor was born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire or at Hadham in Bedfordshire , an older son of Owen Tudor and Catherine Of Valois (former queen of King Henry V Of England ). It is not known for certain whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married. Whatever the case, his mother died in 1437 , but his half-brother, King Henry VI recognised him, creating him Earl Of Richmond in 1452 . In 1455 , he married Margaret Beaufort , a daughter of the legitimised John Beaufort, 1st Duke Of Somerset . She was twelve years old at the time, and became pregnant in the following year. However, with the beginnings of the Wars Of The Roses , Richmond was captured by the Yorkist Herbert family. They imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales , where he caught the plague and died. Henry, his only child, was born more than two months after his death. |
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