Henry VII of England

Henry VII of England

Henry VII (28 January 1457 – 21 April 1509) was King of England from his seizure of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death in 1509. He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor.Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of the Lancastrian branch of the House of Plantagenet. Henry's father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, a half-brother of Henry VI of England and a member of the Welsh Tudors of Penmynydd, died three months before his son Henry was born. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry VII of England has received more than 18,989,176 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia. Henry VII of England is the 201st most popular politician (up from 204th in 2019), the 62nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 64th in 2019) and the 13th most popular British Politician.

Henry VII is most famous for uniting the houses of Lancaster and York and establishing the Tudor dynasty.