THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF ENGLAND
The House of Tudor
Henry the Seventh, King of England
HENRY TUDOR, Earl of Richmond, b. in Pembroke Castle in 1455, (son of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and the Lady Margaret, his wife, dau. and heir of John de Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, ascended the throne on the death of RICHARD III. at Bosworth, and was crowned 30 Oct. 1485. On the 18th of the following January, he m. ELIZABETH OF YORK, heiress of the Plantagenets, daughter of King Edward IV., and by her (who d. in 1202,) had issue:
i. ARTHUR, Prince of Wales, b. 20 Sept. 1486, who m. in 1501, the Infanta Catherine, dau. of Ferdinand, King of Arragon, but d. in the following year s.p.
ii. Prince of Wales, afterwards HENRY VIII.
iii. Edmond, created in 1496, Duke of Somerset, but d. in his fifth year, in 1499.
I. MARGARET, b. 29 Nov. 1489, m. 1st in 1503, JAMES IV., King of Scotland, and by him (who fell at Flodden, 9 Sept. 1513,) had three sons
Arthur, b. at Holyrood, 20 Oct. 1509, d. 14 July, 1.510; JAMES, successor to his father, and Alexander, Duke of Ross, b. 30 April, 1514, d. in infancy. The second son became JAMES V., King of Scotland. He m, 1 Jan. 1357, Magdalen, dau. of Francis I., King of France, and left a dau. and heiress,
MARY, QUEEN of SCOTLAND, b. 7 Dec. 1542, who m. 1st in 1558, Francis II., King of France; 2ndly, in 1565, her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley; and 3rdly, in 1567, James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. By the first and last she had no issue; but by the second, she was mother of an only child,
JAMES VI. of SCOTLAND, and I. of ENGLAND.
MARGARET TUDOR, (Queen Dowager of JAMES IV.) m. 2ndly, Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, by whom she had an only daughter, Margaret Douglas, who m. Matthew Stuart, 4th Earl of Lennox, Regent of Scotland, and had
HENRY STUART, Lord Darnley, b. in 1545, the second husband of MARY, Queen of Scots.
Charles Stuart, 5th Earl of Lennox, who m. in 1574, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir William Cavendish, and d. in 1576, leaving an only child, the ill-fated ARABELLA STUART, who having formed a matrimonial alliance with William Seymour, Marquess of Hertford, without the king’s consent, was committed prisoner to the Tower, where she closed her unhappy life, 27 Sept. 1615.
The Queen Dowager m. 3rdly, Henry Stuart, Lord Methven, but had no other issue.
ii. MARY, b. in 1498, m. 1st, 9 Oct. 1514, to Louis XII. of France, by whom, who d. 1 Jan. 1515, she had no issue; and 2ndly, 13 May, 1515, to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, K.G., by whom she had,
1. Henry, Earl of Lincoln, who d. unm.
2. Frances, who m. Henry Grey, Marquess of Dorset, (afterwards Duke of Suffolk, K.G.) and had three daus.,
JANE, the amiable and unfortunate LADY JANE GREY, m. Lord Guilford Dudley, and was beheaded in 1554, leaving no issue.
Katherine, m. 1st, to Henry, Lord Herbert, and 2ndly, to Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, by the latter of whom she left at her decease, 26 Jan. 1567, a son,
EDWARD, Lord Beauchamp, who m. Honora, dau. of Sir Richard Rogers, Knt., of Bryanston, co. Dorset, and left two sons and one dau.
WILLIAM, Marquess of Hertford and Duke of Somerset, who m. 1st, LADY ARABELLA STUART, by whom he had no issue; and 2ndly, Frances, sister and coheir of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, by whom he had (with daughters, of whom Lady Mary m. Heneage, Earl of Winchelsea, and Lady Jane m. Charles, Lord Clifford, son and heir of Richard Boyle, Earl of Barlington,) two Sons,
HENRY, Lord Beauchamp, who m. Mary, eldest dau. of Arthur, Lord Capell, and had a dau. and eventual heiress, Elizabeth, m. Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Ailesbury, and was mother of CHARLES, 4th Earl of Elgin, and 3rd Earl of Aylesbury, whose daughter and eventually sole heiress, MARY, m. HENRY BRYDGES, DUKE OF CHANDOS, and her granddau. Anne-Elizabeth, dau. and sole heir of James Brydges, 3rd Duke of Chandos, m. in 1796, Richard, Marquess (and afterwards Duke) of Buckingham, and had a son and heir, RICHARD-PLANTAGENET, present DUKE of BUCKINGHAM.
FRANCIS, Lord Seymour of Trowbridge, great-grandfather of ALGERNON, 7th Duke of Somerset, whose dau. and heiress, Elizabeth. m. Sir Hugh Smithson, of Stanwick, and was ancestress of the present DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, and of the EARL or BEVERLEY, who are both entitled to quarter the Royal Arms.
Honora, m. in 1610, Sir Ferdinando Sutton, K.B., son and heir apparent of Edward, Lord Dudley, and d. leaving an only dau. and heir,
FRANCES, BARONESS DUDLEY, who m. Sir Humble Ward, created Lord Ward, and was progenetrix of the noble house of WARD.
Mary, m. to Martin Keys, groom-porter to Queen ELIZABETH, and d. s. p. 3. Eleanor, who m. Henry Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, and left an only dau. and heiress, Margaret, who m. Henry Stanley, Earl of Derby, and had issue:
i. FERDINANDO, 5th Earl of Derby, who m. Alice, dau. of Sir John Spencer, of Althorp, and d. in 1594, leaving three daus. his coheirs, viz.
1. ANNE, m. 1st, to Grey Brydges, 5th Lord Chandos, and 2ndly, to Mervyn, Earl of Castlehaven.
2. FRANCES, who m. John Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater; and from this marriage descend
(all quartering the royal arms) GEORGE, EARL OF JERSEY; GEORGE, DUKE OF SUTHERLAND, K.G.; FRANCIS, EARL OF ELLESMERE; JOHN WILLIAM, VISCOUNT ALFORD; Monsieur WILLIAM SALADIN, of Crans, near Geneva; WILLIAM CHARLES MASTER, Esq. of Knowle Park, Co. Gloucester; FRANCIS HAYTER, Esq. of Roche Court, Wilts; WILBRAHAM EGERTON, Esq. of Tatton, Co. Chester; THOMAS WILLIAM TATTON, Esq. of Withenshaw, co. Chester; WILLIAM OSMOND HAMMOND, Esq. of St. Alban’s Court, Kent; MAXIMILIAN DUDLEY DIGGES DALISON, Esq. of Hamptons, Kent; Mrs. BRANFILL, of Upminster Hall, Essex; SIR JOHN WILLIAM EGERTON BRYDGES, Bt., &c.;
3. ELIZABETH, who m. Henry Hastings, 5th EARL or HUNTINGDON, and is now represented by her descendant, HENRY-WEYSFORD-CHARLES-PLANTAGENET-RAWDON-HASTINGS, MARQUESS HASTINGS, who is entitled, as one of the co-representatives of ELIZABETH of York, to quarter the ROYAL ARMS.
ii. William, 6th Earl of Derby, K.G., who m. in 1594, Elizabeth, dau. of Edward Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and is now represented by his descendant, George-Augustus-Frederick-John Murray, DUKE OF ATHOLL, who is entitled to quarter the Royal Arms. That right also vests, in virtue of this line of descent, in Charles-Adolphus, EARL OF DUNMORE, and the other male branches of the house of MURRAY, in JAMES Ross FARQUHARSON, of Invercauld, co. Aberdeen, and in Margaret, BARONESS NAIRNE and KEITH.
Henry VII., d. 21 April, 1509, and was succeeded by his son,
HENRY THE EIGHTH, b. 28 Jan. 1491, who was crowned 24 June 1509. He m. 1st, Catherine of Arragon, the widow of his deceased brother, Arthur, by whom, who d. in 1536, he had an only dau.,
MARY, who ascended the throne at the decease of her half-brother. The King was divorced from his first Queen in 1533, when he avowed his marriage (which had previously taken place) with Anne Boleyn, dau. of Sir Thomas Boleyn, created Earl of Ormonde, by whom he had an only surviving dau.,
ELIZABETH, who succeeded her half-sister upon the throne.
HENRY’S second Queen was brought to the block, (his marriage having been previously annulled) 19 May, 1536, and he m. on the following day, JANE, dau. of Sir John Seymour, who d. in 1537, in giving birth to her son,
EDWARD, who ascended the throne, as SIXTH of that name. KING HENRY m. 4thly, in 1539, ANNE, dau. of the Duke of Cleves, from whom he was divorced in the same year. He m. 5thly, 8 Aug. 1540, Katherine, dau. of Sir Edmund Howard, whom he brought to the block in a few months afterwards, 12 Feb. 1541; and 6thly, Katherine, dau. of Sir Thomas Parr, of Kendal, and relict of the Hon. Edward Borough, and of Edward Neville, Lord Latimer, which lady survived him, and m. subsequently, Thomas, Lord Seymour of Sudley, uncle to KING EDWARD VI. KING HENRY d. 28 Jan. 1547. His only son,
EDWARD THE SIXTH, b. 12 Oct. 1537, was crowned 25 Feb. 1547. He d. 6 July, 1553, unm., when the crown devolved, after an unsuccessful opposition on the part of Lady Jane Grey, (see HENRY VII.,) upon his elder sister,
QUEEN MARY, b. 8 Feb. 1515; crowned 30 Nov. 1553; who m. 25 July, 1554, PHILIP, Prince of Spain, but d. issueless, 17 Nov. 1558, when the crown devolved upon her half-sister,
QUEEN ELIZABETH, b. 7 Sept. 1553; crowned 15 Jan. 1558; who was s. at her decease, unm., 24 March, 1603, by her cousin King James VI. of Scotland. The royal line of Tudor thus gave place to that of STUART.