Elizabeth I after Mary Tudor
Henry Tudor, who took the throne of England as Henry VII.
Richard III - for the throne of England. He won.
because of his Welsh ancestry. His ancestor, Owen Tudor, a Welsh land owner assisted in returning the throne of England from the Yorks (Edward IV)in the 1400's, to the Lancasters, Henry VI. The Tudors eventually took the throne, so Henry Tudor was of \Welsh descent, therefore a Welsh hero
The Tudor monarchs had the flimsiest of claims to the English throne, so Henry VII asserted his right to the throne of England by virtue of being descended from the British King Arthur. Because the Tudor claim to the throne was essentially based on Welsh lineage, it was necessary to the Tudor dynasty to insist that Wales and England were one country. The Acts of Union were not primarily intended for the benefit of England or Wales - they were for the benefit of the Tudors.
A monarch is a king or queen. The Tudors were a dynasty of English Kings and Queens that ruled from 1485-1603; they were King Henry VII, King Henry VIII, King Edward VI, Queen Mary I, and Queen Elizabeth I.
No he died when his father HenryVII was on the throne but died so the claim to the throne went to his younger brother- the future HenryVIII
Henry's son Edward took over the throne when his father passed away. Edward died shortly after he took over as King of England as a child and he had re-written Henry's will to make Jane Grey next in line for the throne. Although Edward IV's intentions were to allow Jane to become Queen, she was removed from the Tudor dynasty after a mere 9 days on the throne. From here, Mary I became Queen and brought England back to a Roman Catholic country. Mary died in 1558 and Elizabeth [daughter of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn] succeded as Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Henry Stuart was lord darnley, grandson of Margaret Tudor and grand-nephew of Henry VIII. He married his first cousin Mary Queen of Scots, who was queen of Scotland and heir to the throne of England (after Elizabeth).
Answer The Welshman Henry Tudwr gained the throne of England after defeating and killing Richard Plantagenet (Richard III) at the Battle of Bosworth. The English spelling of Tudor was adopted for the name of his family. The Tudor period in English History is named after the monarchs who belonged to the Royal House of Tudor - almost, but not quite the same as a surname as we would understand it today. The Tudor monarchs were: Henry VII Henry VIII, son of Henry VII Edward VI, son of Henry VIII Lady Jane Grey, grand daughter of Henry VII Mary I, daughter of Henry VIII Elizabeth I, daughter of Henry VIII.
Henry II established Plantagenet. Henry VII Established Tudor.
Henry Tudor killed Richard III at the battle of Bosworth field. So Henry Tudor became King Henry VII the first Tudor king of England. P.S. Only Henry VII was called Henry Tudor