. Edmund Tudor, was the half-brother of King Henry VI as they had the same mother Catherine of Valois. In 1452 Lady Margaret Beaufort, the nine-year-old daughter of the Duke of Somerset was summoned to the court of her second cousin, King Henry VI and the following year Edmund was granted wardship. On 1 November 1455 at Bletsoe Castle, she was married to Edmund. By the end of the following November, he was dead, leaving his 13-year-old widow pregnant with the future King Henry VII.
The Wars of the Roses had begun and Edmund (a Lancastrian) was captured by Yorkist partisan William Herbert in mid-1456. Herbert imprisoned him at Carmarthen Castle in South Wales, where he died of the plague on either 1 or 3 November 1456.
Edmund's only child, the future Henry VII, was born at Pembroke Castle, almost three months after his death. Margaret, being only 13 years old never had another child
