Edmund Tudor Earl of Richmond [3310] ²⁴

   FamilySearch ID: LZJP-WX1.

  General Notes:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01254

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/TUDOR.htm#Edmund%20TUDOR%20(E.%20Richmond)

born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire or at Hadham in Bedfordshire, an older son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois. It is not known for certain whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married. Whatever the case, his mother died in 1437, but his half-brother, King Henry VI recognised him, creating him Earl of Richmond in 1452. In 1455, he married Margaret Beaufort, a daughter of the legitimised John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. She was twelve years old at the time, and became pregnant in the following year. However, with the beginnings of the Wars of the Roses, Richmond was captured by the Yorkist Herbert family. They imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, where he caught the plague and died. Henry <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/aboutHenryVII.htm>, his only child, was born more than two months after his death.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 23 Nov 1452.

Edmund married Margaret of Richmond Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Countess of Derby [3306] [LZZ8-HWP] [MRIN: 433], daughter of John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset [3295] [LX3J-KRY] and Margaret Beauchamp Duchess of Somerset [3284] [93WS-X16], on 1 Nov 1455. (Margaret of Richmond Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Countess of Derby [3306] [LZZ8-HWP] was born on 31 May 1443 in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England, died on 29 Jun 1509 in Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster, England and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.)