King Henry VII of England was the founder of the Tudor dynasty, born on January 28, 1457 AD, whose real name was Henry Tudor. In August 1485, Henry Tudor defeated the current King Richard III of England at the Battle of Bosworth, so he became King of England and established the Tudor Dynasty, known as Henry VII.
Britain is not the same as ancient China, the ancient Chinese emperor can be anyone, as long as you can lay the world, like Liu Bang, Zhu Yuanzhang and other grass people can be emperors. But England is different, England is a nobleman who must have royal blood to become emperor. Even if you conquer the country, you don't have royal blood, you can only set up a person with royal blood as king, you as regent.
Henry VII became king of England not only because he defeated Richard III, but also because he had royal blood. But Henry VII's royal lineage came from the matrilineal line, his mother Margaret Shire of Beaufort.
Margaret The Lord of Beaufort was the daughter of John Beaufort, the first Duke of Somerset. John Beaufort was the son of John of Gunter and Catherine Swinford, the second wife of The Younger, and John of Gundt was the son of King Edward III of England. That is, Margaret Shire of Beaufort was a descendant of Edward III.
Henry VII's matrilineal lineage was barely royal, but his patrilineal ancestors were too bad. Henry VII's father was Edmund Tudor, and Edmund Tudor was the half-brother of King Henry VI of England.
When Henry VI was a nine-month-old infant, his father Henry V died and he became King of England. And his mother, Empress Catherine, was uneasy in the room and did not concentrate on raising him, but had an affair with the housekeeper Owen Tudor, and also gave birth to six children in the palace, and it seems that there are only two sons who live to adulthood, that is, Edmund Tudor and Jasper Tudor.
When her son Henry VI was still an infant, Empress Catherine did not concentrate on raising her son Henry VI, did not think about her son's country, but did not commit adultery with the housekeeper to give birth to a child, and had a small family of her own, regardless of the king's son. Henry VI rarely saw his mother, Empress Catherine, from an early age.
Owen Tudor was Scottish, and Empress Catherine was a French princess, and Edmund Tudor and Jasper Tudor had no English ancestry, nor half royal blood in the patrilineal line. France implemented the Salic Law, and women did not have the right to inherit the throne and the right to inherit property. So Edmund Tudor and Jasper Tudor received nobility or property from either patrilineal or matrilineal line.
Edmund Tudor was only the illegitimate son of the empress dowager and the butler, and his future was not bright. If there were no accidents, he could only follow his father's path and become a butler of the nobility, which was just a maid.
But good luck to Edmund Tudor, his half-brother Henry VI was so good to him. Henry VI inherited his grandfather's mental illness and grew up without the care of his mother, but he was particularly kind and resentful, and his treatment of his mother's lover and his mother's illegitimate son was astonishing.
Empress Catherine raised housekeepers and illegitimate children in the palace, and her life was too moist, but she did not live long. When her illegitimate child was still very young, she died of illness, and her lover Owen Tudor was out of luck.
Because of his adultery with the Empress, the nobles sued Owen Tudor, but Henry VI pardoned Owen Tudor, and also adopted two half-brothers, Edmund Tudor and Jasper Tudor, and gave them English knighthoods, making them English nobles.
This series of divine operations of the king made the bastard son of the queen and the housekeeper become an English nobleman, and the bastard son was either a beggar on the street, or like his father, became the butler of the nobleman and acted as a doll of the hostess.
Henry VI's "kindness" did not stop there, he also wanted his mother's illegitimate son to be pulled into the royal family. How can this be done? How does a person without royal blood become a royal? It doesn't matter, having marriage can make it all happen.
At that time, the king could arrange royal marriage, so Henry VI asked Margaret the Lord of Beaufort to break the marriage with her first husband without a round house and marry Edmund Tudor.
Margaret The Lord of Beaufort was an orphan daughter who inherited a large amount of property and land, and was a bounty of the time, and many people wanted to marry her. As a result, Henry VI seized such a good marriage for his mother's illegitimate son.
At the time of marriage, Margaret Beaufort was only 12 years old and could not yet have a round house, but Edmund Tudor learned the lesson of Margaret Beaufort's ex-husband and immediately took her to the marriage bed and made her pregnant.
As a result, Margaret The Lord of Beaufort gave birth to a son, Henry VII, at the age of 13, who was too young to give birth and suffered from childbirth, and would not have children in the future.
Henry (Henry VII) became the only son of Margaret The Lord of Beaufort, no matter how many times Margaret the Lord of Beaufort remarried, she only had this one son, so her heart was on her son, and she used her property to fight for his son.
Unfortunately, before Henry VII was born, Edmund Tudor was killed in the war, and his brother Jasper Tudor and his wife Margaret Beaufort became friends, but could not marry. Margaret The Lord of Beaufort remarried twice.
Henry VII became the king of England, Edmund Tudor also became the ancestor of the British king, and the fornication of the queen's butler Owen Tudor also became the ancestor of the British king, although the Tudor dynasty fell, but the descendants of Henry VII's daughter became the king of England, so the current Queen Elizabeth II can also be regarded as a descendant of the butler Owen Tudor.
If it were not for the divine manipulation of the mad king Henry VII, Edmund Tudor would have been nothing more than the illegitimate son of the empress dowager and the male steward, and could not even live an aristocratic life, how could he become the ancestor of the King of England?