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The British Royal Family 
Jasper Tudor Earl of Pembroke & Duke of Bedford BORN: c. 1431 DIED: 1495 Father: Owen Tudor Mother: Katherine of Valois Son of Owen Tudor and Katherine of Valois (widow of Henry V) and half brother of Henry VI. Brother of Edmund Tudor (father of the future Henry VII). Jasper played a major role on behalf of the Lancastians in the Wars of the Roses and was with his nephew Henry Tudor in exile in Brittany. He married during Henry VII's reign, but had no legitimate heir. He may have fathered an illegitimate daughter by a Welsh woman. The daughter in turn was the mother of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester. |
