Henry Tudor had the support of many rich and powerful ... the Plantagenet family who had been in conflict during the Wars of the Roses, starting a new dynasty that included them both.

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Henry's victory over Richard - whose remains were found beneath a Leicester car park in 2012 - at the Battle of Bosworth ended the Wars of the Roses. He ushered in the Tudor era that was brutally ...

The ultimate victor, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III on his mother's side, was of Welsh and French descent on his father's side. The Tudor dynasty, with perhaps somewhat overblown ...

Historian John Davies looks at the impact of the Wars of the Roses on the lead-up to the accession of Henry VII and the beginning of the Tudor dynasty. Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the ...