Origin of the House of Tudor

Edward III

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Edward William, Lionel, Duke John of Gaunt, Edmund, Duke of York

(the Black no of Clarence, Duke of |

Prince) issue from whom Lancaster /-----------------\

| descended in | Edward, Duke of Richard,

Richard II the fourth Henry IV York, no issue Earl of

generation | Cambridge,

*Richard, Henry V (Catharine, m. Anne

Duke of York | his widow, Mortimer, great-

| Henry VI married granddaughter of

--------------------- Owen Tudor, Lionel, Duke of

| | a Welsh gentleman) Clarence; their

Edward IV Richard III | son was

| Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richard,

--------------------------- Richmond, m. Margaret Duke of York

| | | Beaufort, a descendant

+Edward V +Richard, Elizabeth of John of Gaunt, Duke

Duke of York of York, of Lancaster, see

m. Henry VII pages 161, 172

(of Lancaster) |

Henry (Tudor) VII (formerly

Earl of Richmond), m. Elizabeth of

York, thus uniting the House of

Lancaster (Red Rose) and York

(White Rose) in the new royal

House of Tudor

*Inherited the title Duke of York from his uncle Edward. See No. 5.

+The Princes murdered by Richard III.

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