Person1457 – 1509
Henry VII of England
Also called: Henry Tudor
King of England from 1485 to 1509 who ended the Wars of the Roses at Bosworth, founded the Tudor dynasty and strengthened royal power
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From 1455 to 1485 the English houses of Lancaster (red rose) and York (white rose) fought for the crown. It ended when Henry VII founded the Tudor dynasty.
Themes this person appears in
- Late Medieval Europe and the Renaissance1077 – 1517
From Canossa to the eve of the Reformation — papal power at its height and in decline, towns and parliaments, royal power growing through the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, and the Renaissance and printing