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Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond

1430 - 1456

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Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (c. 1430 – 3 November 1456, also known as Edmund of Hadham), was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Born to Sir Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois, Edmund was the half-brother of Henry VI of England. He was raised for several years by Katherine de la Pole and Henry took an interest in Edmund's upbringing, granting him a title and lands once he came of age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond has received more than 1,643,968 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond is the 3,297th most popular politician (down from 3,010th in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 702nd in 2019) and the 135th most popular British Politician.

Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, was the father of King Henry VII of England. He was the son of Owen Tudor and Katherine of Valois, who was the widow of King Henry V.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ranks 3,297 out of 15,577Before him are Aleksandar Ranković, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Otto I, Duke of Saxony, Yasuo Fukuda, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit. After him are Joseph Kasa-Vubu, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, António de Spínola, Leonidas II, Mark Felt, and Muhammad I of Granada.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1430, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ranks 6Before him are Giovanni Bellini, Margaret of Anjou, Antonello da Messina, James II of Scotland, and Carlo Crivelli. After him are Dorothea of Brandenburg, Heinrich Kramer, Cosimo Tura, Beatriz, Duchess of Viseu, Justus van Gent, and Francesco Laurana. Among people deceased in 1456, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ranks 4Before him are John Hunyadi, John of Capistrano, and Đurađ Branković. After him are Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, Vladislav II of Wallachia, Jacques Cœur, Lawrence Justinian, and Juan de Mena.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ranks 746 out of 7,765Before him are Frederick Griffith (1879), Margaret Rutherford (1892), Harry Kroto (1939), Derek Jacobi (1938), Bruce Chatwin (1940), and Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443). After him are James Joseph Sylvester (1814), Chris Rea (1951), Ben Jonson (1572), David J. Thouless (1934), John Frederic Daniell (1790), and Boris Karloff (1887).

Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond ranks 135Before him are John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), Gordon Brown (1951), Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519), and Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443). After him are John Balliol (1249), James Macpherson (1736), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), David Cameron (1966), and Rob Roy MacGregor (1671).