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(a)
Owen
or
Thomas
or
Edward
He was born on 6 November, 1429, at the Palace of Westminster, and is perhaps to be identified with Edward Bridgewater, a monk at Westminster Abbey from 1468/9 to 1471/2. He died in 1502 at Westminster, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
(b)
Edmund
(
see here
, under
Henry VII
).
(c)
Jaspar
He was born in
c.
1431 at Hatfield, Herts. He was created Earl of Pembroke probably on 23 November, 1452, certainly before 30 January, 1453. He was made a Knight of the Garter before 23 April, 1459. He was attainted as a traitor by Act of Parliament on 4 November, 1461, and forfeited all his honours, but was styled Earl of Pembroke from October, 1470, until May, 1471, during the readeption of Henry VI. He was created Duke of Bedford on 27 October, 1485, and formally restored to all his honours on 12 December, 1485. He died on 21 or 26 December, 1495, and was buried in Keynsham Abbey, Somerset.
Jaspar had the following illegitimate issue:
By Mevanvy (
d
. by 1485?), a Welshwoman:
1 Helen or Ellen; she married William Gardiner of London, and had issue.
Jaspar married, before 7 November, 1485:
Katherine
She was the daughter of Richard Wydville, 1st Earl Rivers, by Jacquetta of Luxembourg (
see here
, under Henry IV), and sister to Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV. She was born before 1458. She married firstly Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455?–executed 1483), in
c.
February, 1466, and had issue:
1 Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478–executed 1521); he married Eleanor (
d
.1530), daughter of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, and had issue.
2 Henry, Earl of Wiltshire (1479?–1523); he married firstly Muriel or Margaret, daughter of Edward Grey, Viscount de Lisle, and secondly Cecilia (
d
.1529), daughter of William Bonville, Baron Harington.
3 Humphrey (
d
. young).
4 A
d
.1507), and secondly George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon (1488–1544), and had issue.
5 Elizabeth (
d
.1532); she married Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex (
d
.1542). She was also the first recorded mistress of Henry VIII. After the death of Jaspar, Katherine married thirdly Sir Richard Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. (1468–1525). She died before 1513.
(d)
Daughter
(
name not known
)
Polydore Vergil, Henry VII’s official historian, says she became a nun, and there is no reason to doubt this, although no other source mentions her.
(e)
Margaret
or
Katherine
She was born in January, 1437, at the Abbey of St Saviour, Bermondsey, London, where she died shortly after her birth.
Katherine died on 3 January, 1437, at the Abbey of St Saviour, Bermondsey, London, in childbirth, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Issue of marriage:
1 Henry VI( see here).
HENRY V
He died on 31 August/1 September, 1422, at the Castle of Bois-de Vince
He was succeeded by his son Henry.
Henry VI
FATHER: Henry V( see here).
MOTHER: Katherine of France( see here, under Henry V).
SIBLINGS: Henry VI did not have any legitimate siblings.
HENRY VI
He was born on 6 December, 1421, at Windsor Castle. He is said to have been designated Duke of Cornwall from birth. He succeeded his father Henry V as King of England on 1 September, 1422, and his grandfather, Charles VI of France, as King of France on 11 October, 1422, in accordance with the terms of the Treaty of Troyes (1420) which settled the French succession upon Henry V and his heirs. Henry VI was crowned at Westminster Abbey on 5/6 November, 1429, and at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on 16/17 December, 1431. He assumed personal rule on 12 November, 1437.
Henry VI was deposed in favour of Edward, Duke of York (Edward IV), on 4 March, 1461. He was restored to the throne on 30 October, 1470 – this was known as ‘the Readeption’ – but deposed again in favour of Edward IV on 11 April, 1471.
Henry VI married, by proxy on 24 May, 1444, at the Cathedral of St Martin, Tours, France, and in person on 23 April, 1445, at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire:
Margaret
She was the daughter of René, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples and Sicily, by Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, daughter of Charles I, Duke of Lorraine, and she was born on 23 March, 1429, at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine. She was crowned on 30 May, 1445, in Westminster Abbey. She died on 25 August, 1482, at Château Dampierre, Anjou, and was buried in St Maurice’s Cathedral, Angers, Anjou.
Issue of marriage:
1 Edward
He was born on 13 October, 1453, at the Palace of Westminster, and was Duke of Cornwall from birth. He was created Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester on 15 March, 1454, and invested with the principality of Wales on 9 June, 1454, at Windsor Castle. He was also made a Knight of the Garter. He was killed, or perhaps murdered by the Yorkists, on 4 May, 1471, at the Battle of Tewkesbury, and was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloucs.
Edward married on 13 December, 1470, at Château d’Amboise, France:
A
She was the daughter of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, by A
HENRY VI
He was murdered on 21 May, 1471, almost certainly on the orders of Edward IV. Henry was buried in Chertsey Abbey, Surrey, but was removed to St George’s Chapel, Windsor, in 1485. He had already been succeeded by his distant cousin Edward IV.
Edward IV
FATHER: Richard
He was the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge (son of the fourth surviving son of Edward III), by A