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Urn:lcp:warsofroses00weir:epub:5d197e9e-8fa9-4e85-91fa-91ea7290106c Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier warsofroses00weir Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8jd5qq8z Isbn 0345391179ĩ780345391179 Lccn 95094503 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary_edition Marincountyfreelibrary Edition 1st American ed. It is also clear that, far from living in subjection to Henry VII and his mother, Margaret Beaufort, she enjoyed a good relationship with both.BoxID IA1557415 Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:24:24 Boxid IA119615 Boxid_2 CH115201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donor Certainly the sources show that she deserves a lot more credit for her political accomplishments than most historians have been prepared to give her – and that she was highly active within the late medieval queen’s traditional spheres of influence. Her goodness shines forth in the records she was greatly loved, and deservedly so. Henry VII did engage in diplomacy to find a second wife, but did not in the end remarryĮlizabeth’s legacy to the Tudor dynasty was her Plantagenet blood, which compensated for any deficiency in Henry VII’s descent.

Elizabeth’s bloodline was, in many eyes, superior to that of Henry Tudor himself, and her death robbed him of one prop to his dynastic claim, as well as ending hopes that he and Elizabeth could have more children: the dynasty’s future hung on the sole surviving prince, Henry – the future Henry VIII – aged just 11. It was also, however, a major political blow.

It was a shattering personal blow to the king, says Dr James Ross – her grand funeral was the public expression of this. Elizabeth died on 11 February 1503, a few days after giving birth to a daughter, Katherine, who died soon after.

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