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Henry VII was born at Pembroke Castle on 28 January 1457 to a fourteen year old Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby. His father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, died three months before his birth
The first king of the House of Tudor came to the throne in 1485. He had killed Richard III at Bosworth Field, the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. Henry married Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, uniting the Houses of Lancaster and York.
He arranged a marriage between his son Arthur and Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. After Arthur died, the king succeeded in securing the young widow, and her dowry, for his younger son, Henry. He also negotiated a marriage between his daughter Margaret and James IV of Scotland.
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