TUDOR DYNASTY

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Tudor monarchs of England and Ireland

The six Tudor monarchs were:

Portrait	Name	Birth	Accession date	Marriages	Death	Claim
	Henry VII	28 January 1457 Pembroke Castle	22 August 1485 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on 30 October 1485)	Elizabeth of York	21 April 1509 Richmond Palace aged 52	Descent from Edward III of England through his motherLady Margaret Beaufort.
	Henry VIII (first King of Ireland)[1]	28 June 1491 Greenwich Palace	21 April 1509 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on 24 June 1509)	(1) Catherine of Aragon (2) Anne Boleyn (3) Jane Seymour (4) Anne of Cleves (5) Catherine Howard (6) Catherine Parr	28 January 1547 Palace of Whitehall aged 55	Son of Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
	Edward VI1	12 October 1537 Hampton Court Palace	28 January 1547 (crowned at Westminster on Abbey 20 February 1547)	—	6 July 1553 Greenwich Palace aged 15	Son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
	Jane1 (disputed)	1537 Bradgate Park	10 July 1553 (never crowned)	Lord Guildford Dudley	12 February 1554 executed at the Tower of London aged 16–17	Great granddaughter of Henry VII; granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister, Mary Brandon (née Tudor), Duchess of Suffolk; first-cousin once removed of Edward VI
	Mary I1	18 February 1516 Palace of Placentia	19 July 1553 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on 1 October 1553)	Philip II of Spain	17 November 1558 St James's Palace aged 42	Daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon; known as "Bloody Mary" for burning Protestants during her reign.
	Elizabeth I1	7 September 1533 Greenwich Palace	17 November 1558 (crowned at Westminster Abbey on 15 January 1559)	—	24 March 1603 Richmond Palace aged 69	Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; known as "The Virgin Queen" or "Gloriana" during her reign.

1. ^ To the Tudor period belongs the elevation of the English-ruled state in Ireland from a Lordship to a Kingdom (1541) under Henry VIII.