However, he was unsuccessful most of the time. Jasper was a cousin to the king of France, Louis V, as Jasper’s mother was Louis’ aunt, so perhaps he had more sway. Jasper spent his time in exile trying to stir up support for the Lancasters in France and Brittany. Little Henry was put in the custody of the Herberts, who treated the young Tudor well. His main sorrow must have been leaving his beloved nephew behind, but life on the run was no place for a little one. Owen was captured and beheaded and a crazy woman took his head and lit candles around it. Jasper and Owen met Edward, earl of March and son of the Duke of York, at the battle of Mortimer’s Cross. They left young Henry, who was no longer a baby, at home at Pembroke castle in the care of his nurse. In 1461, the fighting of the War of the Roses heated up again and Jasper and his father Owen mustered troops and marched out to fight for Henry VI and the Lancastrians. In the absence of his mother, Jasper became the only family the little boy had. Baby Henry was left in Wales in the care of his Uncle Jasper. Jasper had the baby christened Owen, after his and Edmund’s father, but the stubborn Margaret overruled him and baby Henry it was.Īfter Edmund’s death Margaret married again to the second son of the Duke of Buckingham. It was not an easy birth and both mother and child were expected to die, but they came through, although Margaret never carried another child. Edmund had died months before, suppposedly of plague, after being captured by William Herbert, an ally of the Duke of York, at Carmarthan. Young Margaret was pregnant soon after and her only son Henry was born at Pembroke castle under the protection of his Uncle Jasper. Contemporary opinion believed that though it was now legal, consummation of the marriage should be delayed. The couple were married in 1456, when Margaret was only 12 years old and by all reports small for her age. Nicholas and received a vision to marry Edmund. Margaret must have thought she had a choice between the brothers as her confessor, Bishop John Fisher, told the story she prayed to St. It is possible Henry thought to make Edmund his heir and strengthen his claim by adding Margaret’s to his own by marriage. In 1453, the brothers were given the wardship of Margaret Beaufort, the heiress of the Duke of Somerset. However, Jasper was her loyal partisan for life. Whether she did so in good heart we will never know.
The Queen had to give up her lands at Pembroke for Jasper. The young Tudors were much in favor since Henry had no son or other relatives his age. They were knighted and Edmund was made the Earl of Richmond and Jasper, the Earl of Pembroke. Henry had them brought to court and supervised the boys’ education. They lived with her until 1442 when their half brother, Henry VI found out about their existence. When marriage was discovered, Katherine was put into Bermondsey Abbey and the two small boys, about 7 and 6 respectively, were taken in by Catherine de la Pole, the Abbess of Barking and the Duke of Suffolk’s sister.
At any rate, Owen and Katherine married in secret, and had Edmund and Jasper in quick succession. Some historians speculate Edmund Tudor, the son born directly after Owen and Katherine’s marriage, was a product of the Beaufort affair and she married Owen to cover it up. Owen caught her eye, some stories said after swimming or after dancing and falling in her lap. The Dowager Queen was coming out of an unsuccessful affair with Edmund Beaufort, the Duke of Somerset. His mother was Katherine Valois, daughter of the French king and Dowager Queen of England. He was a Welsh courtier who had secured a place at court after the Glyndŵr Rising. His father was Owen Tudor, Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur in the original Welsh. Before we can talk about Jasper, we have to back up a bit and discuss his parents.
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