Jasper worked hard to stop the fighting between the Yorks and the Lancasters while he was still living in the courts. In 1449, Jasper was knighted and in 1452, he was created the earl of Pembroke. Around that time, their half-brother Henry VI allowed for Edmund and Jasper to live at court, where they received the military training that would be essential for their survival later in life. After his mother’s death on January 3, 1437, Jasper and Edmund were sent to Barking Abbey where they were raised and educated by Katherine de la Pole from July 1437 until March 1442. He was the brother of Edmund Tudor and half- brother of King Henry VI. Jasper Tudor was the second son born to Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois born in 1431. He never gave up on fighting for the cause he believed in and he did his best to keep his nephew Henry Tudor safe. Jasper was really one of the unsung heroes of the Wars of the Roses. Son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois. However, ensure that they could not do Edward IV any harm.(Born November 1431- Died December 21, 1495). To the Tudors that they would be safe and he could not break his vow. The face of French aggression) and he need every bargaining tool he could find.Īs he became aware of the whereabouts of the two Tudors, requested that Dukeįrançois extradite them. François still had no heir (he would eventually have aĭaughter, Anne, in 1477, but that was not much better than no heir at all, in Territories, they would be ‘far from injury’. Well, and kept the promises he made that, so long as they remained in his Duke François II, who is one of the few men who comes out of the Wars of the Roses with any honour, permitted them to remain in Brittany. However the ship was blown off-course and the two men arrived instead in Brittany. It had been Jasper’s intention to return to the court of Louis XI, who would almost certainly have given him support in the face of Edward IV’s belligerent attitude toward France. Now 14, remained in hiding in Tenby for a few days until a ship could be found Together to keep the family in favour with both sides. It is, of course, perfectly possible that Morgan had not been terriblyĮnthusiastic in his activities and that the brothers had concocted the scheme Morgan’s army from the rear to raise the siege and ferry Jasper and Henry to His father’s and grandfather’s tradition of loyalty to Jasper, approached Morgan’s brother, Dafydd ap Thomas, continuing TheĬastle was quickly surrounded by Edward’s men, led by Morgan ap Thomas, a Henry were at Pembroke Castle, obviously intending to escape by sea. Possible heir was Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, although as his claimĭerived from the last of Edward III’s sons, it was inferior to that of both Returning from France with Edward’s army after a military expedition. Exeter himself died in somewhat mysterious circumstances inġ475, apparently reconciled to Edward but unaccountably falling overboard when A more likely Lancastrian heir was Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, who, badly wounded at Barnet, had been captured by Edward IV.Įdward’s brother-in-law, which may have inclined Edward to spare his life,Īlthough he and Anne of York hated each other, and the marriage was annulled Nevertheless, Jasper allegedly received urgent messages from Henry’s mother, Margaret Beaufort, to keep her son out of Edward’s hands. Jasper still had in his hands his nephew, Henry Tudor, who was now a possible heir of the Lancastrian claim to the throne although it seems unlikely that, with Edward now firmly seated on the throne anyone believed there was any realistic prospect of Henry Tudor taking up the Lancastrian mantle. Getting wind of Vaughan’s approach, Jasper’s men captured him and he was executed on Jasper’s orders, apparently saying he would show Vaughan as much mercy as Vaughan had shown to Owain Tudor after Mortimer’s Cross. He was still at large in Chepstow.Įdward sent Sir Roger Vaughan, Jasper’s old enemy, to capture him. The Queen was gathered up with the other women and sent to London, following which she spent four bitter years of humiliation in captivity, before being ransomed by Louis XI. Her son was dead and within a few days she heard that her husband too was dead, almost certainly killed in the Tower on the orders of Edward IV.
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