1502 Prince Arthur dies, and Prince Henry (the future Henry VIII) becomes heir to the throne, later marrying Arthur’s widow, Catherine of Aragon. 1503 Margaret, Henry's daughter marries James IV of Scotland. The marriage gives James' descendants a claim to the English throne. 1503 Death ...
Are there any living descendants of King Henry VIII? Was Henry V Blondell, Count of Luxembourg, a king? Was Henry of Navarre Henry IV? Was King Edward IV before Henry VIII? Was the Hundred Years' War fought by Henry V? Did Charles II believe in the divine right of kings? Was Henry...
The descendants of all those dukes began to look back up their family trees. Factions formed and it was one short step from angry words to drawn swords on various battle fields. Ultimately Prince Edward of Lancaster would died at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471 meaning that the house of La...
“In Hobbs (full citation below), on p. 13, F. M. Lupton cites a pamphlet William Davenport, of Reading, and his descendants, by Rev. James Davenport, which claims that this William Davenport of Reading (number 636, above) was the same person as the William Davenport born at Worfield,...
Born Henry Knox in Boston, Massachusetts. The seventh of ten children. Coming from a poor family he worked at many horrible labor positions until eventually he persevered, going on to open a bookstore of his own in Boston. It was while running this bookstore that he attracted the attention...
Are there any living descendants of King Henry VIII? Are Charlemagne, Charles II and Charles V related? Is Prince Philip descended from the Tudors? Did Henry VII marry into the French royal family? Is Prince Harry a Plantagenet? Was Edward III of England related to George VI? Was Catherine...
https://www.facebook.com/WyattDescendants/ Last week an Irish Facebook friend and Tudor enthusiast suggested we put more art on Facebook. He asked me to post something about Hans Holbein. I began with Holbein’s famous painting of Henry VIII, but couldn’t resist – I had to share fami...
Making Henry VIII’s will was probably a tad on the tricky side to draw up as it had become illegal to speak about the king’s death thirteen years before it was drawn up in 1535- verbal treason. Normally a family tree would have been sufficient to identify who was going to inherit wh...
and the Viscount's estate being much impoverished by loans to the King, which in those troublesome times his Majesty could not repay, a grant of land in the plantations of Virginia was given to the Lord Viscount.; part of which land is in possession of descendants of his family to the ...