Tudor dynasty
Henry VIII's family
The Tudor dynasty was the royal house that ruled England from 1485 to 1603, beginning with Henry VII's victory at the Battle of Bosworth Field and ending with Elizabeth I's death.
The period saw the English Reformation, the break from Rome, and England's emergence as a major European power.
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I remain the dynasty's most famous monarchs.
- Lady Jane GreyShortest-reigning English monarch
- Elizabeth IFinal Tudor sovereign
- Virgin QueenEpithet for unmarried English sovereign
- monarchyRule by crowned sovereign
- English ReformationEngland's break from Catholicism
Henry VIII · Church of England · Act of Supremacy · Thomas Cromwell · naval expansion · Star Chamber · Mary I · Bloody Mary · Renaissance humanism · Anne Boleyn · Book of Common Prayer · Catherine of Aragon · Tower · Spanish Armada · heir · royal court · Hampton Court · Plantagenet
- British historyWilliam the Conqueror, Victorian era, Elizabethan era, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell
- medievalknights, castles, cathedral, kings, queens
- royaltyking, queen, prince, princess, kings
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, sixteenth century
- Medieval Englandking, kings, castle, castles, knight
- WalesCardiff, Anglesey, Welsh, Snowdon, Welsh dragon
Tudor dynastyCounter-Reformation
Church's internal reform movement
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