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Part Three: Welcome To Pembroke Territory

The History Behind Pembroke Territory

Once upon a time a 13 years old young woman named Lady Margaret Beaufort gave birth to her only child, Henry Tudor and his father, Lord Edmund Tudor who was the half brother of King Henry VI as King Henry VI and Lord Edmund Tudor had the same mother, Princess Katherine of Valois of France, but two had different fathers, King Henry VI's father was King Henry V and Lord Edmund Tudor's father was Sir Owen Tudor.

Lady Margaret Beaufort was the granddaughter of Lord John Beaufort and she was the great-granddaughter of Lord John of Gaunt, the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and this made her first cousin once removed with King Henry VI of England and he married Lady Margaret Beaufort to his half brother, Lord Edmund Tudor.

King Henry VI married his first cousin once removed, Lady Margaret Beaufort to strength her claim to the English throne by marrying her to his half brother, Lord Edmund Tudor, but Lord Edmund Tudor didn't see his only child to be born as his brother,Lord Jasper took his brother's wife into his castle of Pembroke and there is where Lady Margaret Beaufort gave birth to Henry Tudor named for his half uncle, King Henry VI of England.

Lady Margaret Tudor feared for the life of her only child and despite that she had been married twice after Lord Edmund Tudor died. She never had any more children after he was born in 1457 in January.

Lady Margaret Beaufort sent her young son to Brittany, France where he was well received and taken care of by The Duke of Brittany.

Meanwhile, Lady Margaret Beaufort sought to get back into the court of King Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth of York and neither like Prince Richard, King Edward IV younger brother.

When King Edward IV died in 1483, Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester was appointed as his two nephews, King Edward V and his younger brother, Prince Richard as their regents.

Both of the two little Princes were murdered by history states it was King Richard III, but King Richard III had no reason to murder his brother's sons but Lady Margaret Beaufort did.

Lady Margaret Beaufort had all the reasons to murder the two little Princes in the Tower, so her son could return and defeat King Richard III on Bosworth field and returned he did on August 22, 1485 and Henry Tudor killed not only King Richard III, but two of his loyal friends, Lord John Howard 1st Duke of Norfolk and Lord Walter Devereux.

Queen Dowager Elizabeth Woodville and Lady Margaret Beaufort came to agreement that their two oldest children, Princess Elizabeth of York who had the better claim to the throne of England than Henry Tudor as she came through the third surviving son, Prince Lionel, Duke of Clarence and his brother, Prince Edmund, Duke of Langley as both of their grandchildren married each other, and they have Prince Richard, Duke of York who was Princess Elizabeth of York grandfather who was the son of Lady Anne Mortimer and Lord Richard of Cornisburg.

Henry Tudor was crowned King of England by conquest and not by right and in 1485 he married Princess Elizabeth of York but he didn't have her crowned until the birth of their first son, Prince Arthur of Wales in 1486.

King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth of York went on to have other children, but only four reached adulthood and Queen Elizabeth of York died on her 32rd birthday giving birth to their final child, Princess Catherine.

King Henry VII never remarried and he arranged to be laid to rest next to her side at Westminster Abbey.

Their four surviving children were King Henry VIII, Princess Margaret who married King James IV of Scotland and Princess Mary Rose who married Lord Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk Territory, but only Princess Margaret's family continue to survive and eventually ascended to the throne of England and reunited England and Scotland in 1603 with her great-great-grandson, King James VI of Scotland and I of England.