THE TUDORS

The Tudor family descended from Ednyfed Fychan, the seneschal of Llywelyn the Great. By the late 14th century, Tudur ap Goronwy, the great great grandson of Ednyfed, was a landowner at Penmynydd in Anglesey. Two of his sons, Rhys and Goronwy were involved in the revolt of their kinsman, Owain Glyndwr, seizing Conwy Castle in 1404. Owain, the son of a third brother, Maredudd, held minor offices at the court of Henry V. In a practice that was gaining popularity among Welsh families, he adopted a permanent surname. Had he followed general usage and adopted his father's name as his surname, a Maredudd dynasty would have occupied the English throne for a century and more. In the event, however, he chose the name of his grandfather, Tudur.

Under mysterious circumstance, Owain in 1429 married Henry V's widow, Catherine, the daughter of King Charles VI of France. A fervent supporter of the House of Lancaster, he was executed after the battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461. His son, Edmund, earl of Richmond, married Margaret Beaufort, a descendant of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster. After the death of Henry VI and his son in 1471, Margaret was the main Lancastrian claimant to the English throne. Edmund died in 1458, and his and Margaret's son Henry came under the care of Edmund's brother, Jasper, earl of Pembroke. During the most of the rule of the Yorkist dynasty, Henry and Jasper were exiles in Brittany and France. They landed on the coast of Wales in 1485. At the battle of Bosworth, Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor became King Henry VII.

ROBERT TUDOR BORN Abt 1813
CHRISTENED 08-30-1813 at St. Peters, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
DIED ?

MARRIED 11-08-1833 at St. Nicholas, Liverpool, Lancashire, England to

LYDIA ‘TOMLINSON’ TUDOR BORN ? DIED 06-07-1859