Brief Life History of Edmund
When Edmund Tudor 1st Earl of Richmond was born on 20 June 1431, in Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Owen Tudor, was 32 and his mother, Catherine de Valois Reine d’Angleterre, was 29. He married Margaret Beaufort Countess of Richmond and Derby on 1 November 1455, in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died on 12 November 1456, in Dier, Changqing Huayuanxinqu, Dongxihu, Wuhan, Hubei, China, at the age of 25, and was buried in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom.
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- Edmund Tudor, "Find A Grave Index"
- The Peerage
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1449 · Tumu Crisis
The Battle of Tamu, also referred to as the Tume Crisis, was a dramatic conflict between the Ming Dynasty and Mongols (Oirat tribes). The Mongols, under the direction of Esen Tayisi and Toqtaq-Buqa, began their widespread invasion of China in July of 1449. Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty was captured on September 1, 1449. However, the Mongols did not have a proper strategy in place. Esen attempted to hold Emperor Yingzong for ransom, but the Ming dynasty refused to pay the ransom and thrived under the leadership of General Yu Qian, who served in place as Ming commander. After four unsuccessful years, Esen released the Emperor. The Mongols were so disappointed in the failure that Esen was assassinated six years later (1455).
Name Meaning
Welsh: from the personal name Tudur, a derivative of British Celtic Toutorīx, literally ‘people’ + ‘king’. It has sometimes been taken as a Welsh equivalent of Latin Theodorus, from Greek Theodōros ‘gift of God’ (see Theodore ), for which the usual Welsh form is Tewdwr.
Romanian and Croatian: from the personal name Tudor, a variant of Teodor (see Theodore ).
History: The Tudor royal family, English sovereigns from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603, were of Welsh origin, being descended from Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, who held lands at Penmynydd in Anglesey.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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