house of tudor

Noun
  1. An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor;
    Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603) (synset 108175930)
    is a type of: dynasty - a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family
    member holonym:
    • tudor - a member of the dynasty that ruled England
    • elizabeth, elizabeth i - Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
    • grey, lady jane grey - Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554)
    • henry tudor, henry vii - first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509)
    • henry viii - son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547)
    • bloody mary, mary i, mary tudor - daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
    same as: tudor

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