Henry VII (Classic Reprint)

Pembroke Castle on 28th January 1456-7. England was still torn by the last violent years of the Wars of the Roses, and Margaret, widow of Edmund Tudor, was living at Pembroke Castle under the protection of her brotherin-law, Jasper, Earl of Pembroke. There, three months after her husbands death, she gave birth to her son Henry, Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII. A small room in the east end of a tower on the northern wall of the fortress, which in Leland stime contained a chymmeney new made with the arms and badges of King Henry VII., is still shown as Henry sbirthplace.1 The babe came of an illus1 The exact date of Henry sbirth is not beyond dispute owing to the contradictory statements made by Bernard A ndre, Henry sbiographer. He states that he was born on Februarii kalend. decimo septimo (16th January), on the feast of St. Agnes the Second (28th January): Memorials of Henry VII. (R olls Ser.); A ndre, Vita, p. 12. The latter date has been generally adopted, as Andre was probably more familiar with the saints days than with the Roman calendar. Many years after, Henry smother, writing on the day of Seynt A nne s, referred to it as the day of his birth, but this difficulty has been overcome by the suggestion that she wrote Seynt A nnes inadvertently for St. Agnes .W. Busch, England under the Tudors (E ng. trans.), p. 220; Letters and Papers of Richard III. and Henry VII. (ed. Gairdner) (R olls Ser.), i. 422-3.
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