House of Tudor House of Tudor The House of Tudor was an English royal house of Welsh origin, descended in the male line from the Tudors of Penmynydd. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms, including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland (later the Kingdom of Ireland) from 1485 until 1603, with five monarchs in that period. The Tudors succeeded the House of Plantagenet as rulers of the Kingdom of England, and were succeeded by the House of Stuart. The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII of England, descended through his mother from a legitimised branch of the English
Order of Merit of the Portuguese Royal House His Royal Highness, the Duke of Bragança, Dom Duarte Pio. First bestowed in 1993, it confers the following traditional ranks of Knighthood of the Knights and Dames of the Portuguese Royal House of Bragança namely: Order of Merit of the Portuguese Royal House The Order of Merit of the Portuguese Royal House ( or "Ordem do Mérito da Causa Monárquica") is an award for extraordinary services rendered to the Portuguese Royal House and for outstanding Merit in the Monarchist Cause. The Order also confers the Medal of dedication to the Monarchist Cause, Youth Medal of dedication to the Monarchist Cause