Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, also known as Edmund of Hadham, was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd, North Wales.
Background
Edmund Tudor was born either at Much Hadham Palace in Hertfordshire or at Hadham in Bedfordshire, the first son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois (widow of King Henry V of England). lieutenant is not known for certain whether he was born legitimately after his parents were secretly married. In 1436, his mother retired to Bermondsey Abbey, where she died after bearing a child in 1437.
Career
The abbess then brought them to their half-brother Henry VI"s notice, who in turn sent them over as the charges of certain priests to be educated. When Edmund grew up, Henry kept him at his court. Edmund was knighted on 15 December 1449, summoned to parliament as Earl of Richmond on 30 January 1452, and created Earl of Richmond and premier earl on 6 March, acceding on 23 November, and Jasper was created Earl of Pembroke.
In the parliament of 1453 Edmund was formally declared legitimate.
Henry made him large grants, particularly in 1454. The Wars of the Roses had begun and Edmund (a Lancastrian) was captured by Yorkist partisan William Herbert in mid-1456.
Herbert imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456, and was buried at Carmarthen Grey Friars. His elegy was written by Lewys Glyn Cothi.
His remains were, at the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539, removed to the choir of Street David"s Cathedral.
Edmund"s only child, the future Henry VII, was born at Pembroke Castle, two months after his death.