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Henry Tudor

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Noun1.Henry TudorHenry Tudor - 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)
House of Tudor, Tudor - an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)


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More immediately, however, the allegory rakes its legibility, not from this pan-European erotic tradition, but from local English political custom: the adoption of badges by the opposed factions of the Wars of the Roses, which Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York had resolved with their children, whose badge was to be a rose both red and white.
The last time the church got this involved in secular politics, the sun still revolved around the Earth, Leonardo Da Vinci had his library card canceled and Henry Tudor hired the world's first divorce attorney.
 
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