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House of Tudor
Margaret Beaufort.
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Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond,
mar Margaret Beaufort [descendant of Aoife Mac Murrough],
Margaret founded Christ's College, Cambridge 1505,
she also founded St.John's College, Cambridge 1511,
had issue:
Henry VII,
reigned 1485-1509,
had no valid claim to the throne (having descended from the Beaufort illegitimacy)
but seized it anyway by force (at Bosworth, 1485, from the House of York)
and then cemented it by marrying one of the two legitimate claimants
and executing the other (Earl of Warwick executed 1499),
mar 1486 to Elizabeth Plantagenet and had issue:
- Margaret Tudor,
mar James IV, King of Scotland
and had issue [Scottish House of Stuart].
- Henry VIII, reigned 1509-47.
- Mary Tudor, mar Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and had issue.
