Who was the first Tudor King of England?
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
Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, and her husband William Gardener. The heraldic arms claimed by Prior Gardener include a shield impaling the arms of Jasper Tudor, 'debruised by a bend sinister'. The next source dates from the late 17th Century - nearly two hundred years after Jasper Tudor's death. William Dugdale's "Baronage of England" (1675-6) states that Jasper Tudor "departed this Life ... leaving no other Issue than one Illegitimate Daughter, called Ellen, who became the Wife of William Gardner, Citizen of London". Dugdale (1605-1686), an eminent antiquarian and scholar, was Norroy King of Arms (1660-1679) and Garter King of