The Tudors
The dynasty began with Henry VII and ended with Elizabeth I
The House of Tudor (/ˈtjuːdər/)[1] was a dynasty of
largely Welsh and English origin that held the English throne from 1485
to 1603.[2] They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd and Catherine of
Valois. The Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms,
including their ancestral Wales and the Lordship of Ireland (later the
Kingdom of Ireland) for 118 years with five monarchs: Henry VII, Henry
VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I. 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
royal House of Lancaster, a cadet house of the Plantagenets. The Tudor
family rose to power and started the Tudor period in the wake of the
Wars of the Roses (1455–1487)
, which left the main House of Lancaster (with which the Tudors were
aligned) extinct in the male line.
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