Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond King Henry VIII of England of the Royal House of Tudor. Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (Welsh: "Edmwnd Tudur", 11 June 1430 – 3 November 1456, also known as Edmund of Hadham), was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd, North Wales. Born to Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois, Edmund was half-brother to Henry VI of England. Edmund was raised for several years by Katherine de la Pole, and Henry took an interest in Edmund's upbringing, granting him a
Tudors of Penmynydd lineage, the Griffiths of Penrhyn, whose head, Gwilym ap Griffith, had married their niece, Morfydd ferch Goronwy. The family is best known due to the descendants of a younger son. Owain Tudur (anglicised to "Owen Tudor"), the son of rebel Maredudd ap Tudor, would become a courtier, and secretly married Catherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois had two sons, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (d. 1456), and Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford and Earl of Pembroke (d. 1495). Edmund Tudor was betrothed and married to Margaret Beaufort