Why did the English Tudor dynasty die?
The Tudor dynasty in England lasted for 118 years and was ruled by five monarchs. From Henry VII to the later Mary I and Elizabeth I, the Tudor dynasty was once powerful.
Henry VII, the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty, had his son Henry VIII marry with the Spanish power in order to ally with the Spanish power.
As soon as Henry VIII gave birth to a son with a princess of Spain, he would receive a large inheritance of territory.
Henry VIII finally gained a son after many marriages, but in the end it was not possible to avoid the extinction of the Tudor dynasty. So what was the reason for the extinction of the English Tudors?
I. Edward VI, the true heir of the Tudor dynasty in England, died early
After the Wars of the Roses, the House of York in England and the House of Lancayster eventually formed an alliance, and after Henry VII came to power, he arranged Spanish power for his son.
In fact, after the death of Catherine's first husband, Catherine actually married his younger brother.
The reason for the success of this remarriage was that Henry VII wanted to win over the Spanish power, and the Spanish power also needed England to fight France.
Therefore, in order to maintain the relationship, Henry VII asked his second son to marry Catherine of Aragon.
After the death of Henry VII, Henry VIII married several wives, and his purpose was to have a son in order to keep the English territory from other powers.
However, under the efforts of Henry VIII, although Edward VI was born, Edward VI died of illness at the age of fifteen, so after the death of Edward VI, a new round of chaos broke out in England.
In the ensuing British rule, two women were granted the right to the British throne. The two queens were Mary I and Elizabeth I.
After the death of Elizabeth I, because Elizabeth I never married, she passed the throne to her cousin's child, King James I of Scotland, and England entered the era of the Stuart dynasty.
In the Wars of the Roses, many nobles died in battle, resulting in too few heirs
The Wars of the Roses within Britain was an important civil war in England, which changed the fate of Britain.
The Wars of the Roses may seem like a war between emperors, but in reality it is a showdown between two families. In the long process of inheritance in England, in the process of inheritance of Edward III, problems arose.
Because Edward III's successor was Richard II, and Richard II was very dissatisfied with him because of his suppression of the internal nobility.
So Henry IV, the leader of the nobility, forced Richard II to abdicate and became King of England himself. By the time of Henry V, the situation was stabilized due to Henry V's continuous victories in foreign wars.
Due to the untimely death of Henry V, Henry VI ascended the throne in just nine months. After Henry VI came to power, because Henry VI suffered from mental illness and failed in foreign wars, it led to a resumption of internal forces, so there was a war between the House of York and the House of Lancaster.
This civil war was a battle between two families for control of Britain, so both sides invested heavily in this war, and both entered the battle with the idea of completely defeating the other family.
In the end, the two families almost died together, leaving a very weak force and forming an alliance. So a big reason why the Tudors eventually died out was that the Wars of the Roses in England brought great consumption to the traditional British royal family.
Second, the old aristocracy within Britain has been weakened, and the new aristocracy has risen
After the end of the Wars of the Roses, the energy of the traditional aristocracy was greatly reduced, and after that, the power of the new British aristocracy rose rapidly.
Especially with the rise of the Age of Exploration, the new aristocracy no longer regarded royal power as the main means of gaining control for themselves, and they began to pay attention to the changes in the world situation and began to transform into a new situation.
Coupled with the rivalry between the House of York and the House of Lancaster, the power of the nobility was weakened, and the consolidation of royal power, after the consolidation of royal power, the number of people who could be passed on became rarer.
In particular, the forty-three years of Elizabeth I's reign objectively reduced the descendants of the two families, and finally Elizabeth I could only choose a side line to maintain the rule of the dynasty.
III. Summary
The last heir died mainly for three reasons, one of which was that Edward VI, the only male heir of Henry VIII, died young at the age of fifteen.
The second reason was the Wars of the Roses, which led to the war between the two major families capable of competing for the royal family, the House of York and the House of Lancaster, which drastically reduced the royal family and led to the subsequent extinction of the Tudor dynasty.
The third reason is that after the consolidation of Elizabeth's power, she ruled for a long time. The nobles gradually replaced the new aristocratic forces by the new aristocratic forces, and the new aristocratic forces did not have the conditions to become kings, so the Tudor dynasty eventually became extinct.
