Now it was a bit more complex but the Church recognised this as a marriage. You had to promise to live as man and wife and consummate the marriage. You needed consent, both parties had to agree and not be forced into marriage. You didn’t even need clergy ( you still don’t in theory as a couple marry each other and the priest is there to facilitate the sacrament) but you needed two things to make a valid marriage. No formal marriage ceremony was necessary, no marriage licence existed and no contract was needed for a marriage to be valid. Modern historians point out that there is no surviving evidence for a marriage service between Catherine de Valois and her steward, Owen Tudor but this misses the point of Medieval Canon Law. As this also overlapped her relationship with Owen the speculation is that Catherine was pregnant when she “married” Owen Tudor. However, Catherine did have an affair with Edmund before Owen and intended to marry him.
The claim is discounted by Nathan Amin in his work on House of Beaufort, quite expertly. Harriss and the late historian, John Ashdown Hill. This rather contentious claim was made by historian G.L. Of course, Edmund Tudor may not have been Owen’s son as many speculated back then, but the son of Edmund Beaufort, making Margaret Beaufort ‘s husband her first cousin. Half brother would be legally correct in that case. Her marriage could have been seen as null and void and her children illegitimate. She was forbidden to marry by Act of Parliament while her son was a minor. Half brother is probably a more accurate term as the marriage of Catherine de Valois and Owen Tudor was without the permission of the Council and therefore against the law.
They are stepbrothers because their mother married both father’s, half brothers because they had different fathers but the same mother. Ridgway, Claire (2012) On This Day in Tudor History, MadeGlobal Publishing.Online ed., edited by David Cannadine, January 2008. Thomas In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H. “Tudor, Edmund, first earl of Richmond (c.1430–1456).” R. Picture: The shrine of St David and the tomb of Edmund Tudor, died 1456Ĭc-by-sa/2.0 - © Philip Pankhurst - /p/4585486. The baby was a boy, a son who would become King Henry VII. She gave birth at her brother-in-law's home of Pembroke Castle on 28th January 1457. His elegy was written by Lewys Glyn Cothi, the Welsh poet.Įdmund's widow, Margaret, was six months pregnant when he died. His elaborate tomb can still be seen today in the middle of the high altar, although his effigy and other decorations were removed during the Civil War in the 17th century.
Edmund was buried at the monastery of Greyfriars in Carmarthen, but was moved to St Davids Cathedral on the orders of his grandson, Henry VIII, after the dissolution of the monastery. He died at Carmarthen from the plague on 1st November 1456 aged about twenty-six. They successfully seized the castle and Edmund was imprisoned temporarily. A Yorkist force of 2,000 men led by Sir William Herbert and Sir Walter Devereux then marched on Carmarthen. By November 1455, Edmund had married Margaret and had moved to south-west Wales where, by August 1456, after a conflict with Gruffudd ap Nicholas, he had taken control of Carmarthen Castle "and thereby captured the centre of royal government in the region" on behalf of the king. On 24th March 1453, Henry VI granted the wardship and marriage of ten-year-old Lady Margaret Beaufort, daughter and heir of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and a direct descendant of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, to Edmund and Jasper. The brothers were knighted on 5th January 1453 and in March 1453, at the Reading Parliament, they received recognition as the king's true and legitimate brothers. Edmund was made Earl of Richmond by his half-brother, Henry VI, on 23rd November 1452 and his brother, Jasper, was made Earl of Pembroke. He was born around 1430 in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, and is sometimes known as Edmund of Hadham. On this day in 1456, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and father of King Henry VII, died from the plague at Carmarthen Castle in Wales.Įdmund was the eldest son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois (widow of Henry V and mother of Henry VI).
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