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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TUDELA , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:Spain, in the See also:province of See also:Navarre, on the See also:Saragossa-Logrono and Tudela-Tarazona See also:railways, and on the right See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Ebro, which is here joined by its tributary the Queiles. Pop. (1900), 9499. The Ebro is here crossed by a massive and See also:ancient See also:bridge of 19 See also:arches. Most of the public buildings, such as the town-See also:hall, See also:bull-See also:ring, hospitals and See also:schools, are See also:modern; but there is a Romanesque collegiate See also:church, See also:Santa Maria, which was founded in 1135 and consecrated in 1188. This church is one of the most perfect in northern Spain, the sculptured doorways and cloisters being especially See also:fine. There are many sawmills in the town, and an active See also:timber See also:trade; the manufactures of See also:cloth, See also:linen, See also:spirits, preserved See also:fruit, pottery, &c., and the trade in See also:grain, See also:wine and oil are of less importance. Tuslela, the See also:Roman Tutela, was occupied by the See also:Moors in the .8th See also:century, and taken from them by See also:Alphonso I. of See also:Aragon in 1114. The town was an episcopal see from 1783 to 1851. In 18o8 the See also:Spanish forces under Generals Castanos and Palafox were twice defeated here by the See also:French under See also:Marshal See also:Lannes. -TUDOR (See also:FAMILY). The See also:house of Tudor, which gave five sovereigns to See also:England, is derived by all the Welsh genealogists from Ednyfed Vychan of Tregarnedd in See also:Anglesey, who is namedin 1232 as steward of Llywelyn, See also:prince of See also:North See also:Wales, and seven years later, as an arbitrator in a See also:convention to which Davydd, the son of Llywelyn, was a party.

His See also:

pedigree has been traced from Marchudd ap Cynan and beyond him, according to the veracious Lewys Dwnn, from See also:Brutus, the See also:great-See also:grandson of See also:Aeneas. Gronw, or Gronwy, one of his younger sons, had Trecastell for his portion. Tudor, son of Gronw, who lived to be called Tudor See also:Hen or the old Tudor, founded the Carmelite friary in See also:Bangor and was grandfather of Tudor Vychan ap Gronw of Trecastell, who is said to have assumed the See also:style of a See also:knight, and to have had that See also:rank confirmed to him by See also:Edward III. This Tudor Vychan was the See also:father of four sons, of whom the eldest, Gronw Vychan, was in favour with the See also:Black Prince and with See also:Richard II. He was forester of See also:Snowdon and steward of the See also:bishop of Bangor's lordship in Anglesey. He died in 1382, an See also:infant son being See also:heir to his lands in Penmynydd, whose See also:sister carried them to her See also:husband Gwylym ap Gmffydd of See also:Penrhyn. Gronw Vychan„ whom a See also:bard calls " a See also:pillar of the See also:court: the ardent pursuer of See also:France," was probably the See also:warrior whose effigy remains in the church at Penmynydd. Gronw's See also:brothers Gwylym and Rhys served Richard II. as captains of archers. Their youngest See also:brother, Meredydd ap Tudor, escheator of Anglesey in 1392 and, like Gronw, an officer of the See also:household of the bishop of Bangor, is said to have slain a See also:man and fled to the See also:wild See also:country about Snowdon. He was the father of See also:Owen ap Meredydd, commonly called Owen Tudor, a See also:squire who appears at the court of the infant See also:king See also:Henry VI. By all accounts he was a goodly See also:young man: the chroniclers dwell upon the beauty which attracted the See also:queen See also:mother. She gave the handsome squire a See also:post in her household .

About 1428 or 1429, it must have been See also:

common knowledge that the presumptuous Welshman and the daughter of See also:Charles VI. of France were living as man and wife. There is no See also:direct See also:evidence for their See also:marriage. An See also:act had but lately been passed for making it a See also:grave offence to marry with the queen See also:dowager without the royal consent: this act is said to have been afterwards cut out from the See also:statute See also:book. Richard III. denounced his See also:rival See also:Richmond as the son of a See also:bastard, but it must be remembered that Richard was ready to foul the memory of his own mother in See also:order to say the same of the young Edward V. But no one yet has found See also:time or See also:place of Owen Tudor's marriage with See also:Catherine of France. Five See also:children were See also:born to them, the sons being See also:Edmund and See also:Jasper and another son who became a See also:monk. In 1436, a date which suggests that See also:Bedford had been Owen's See also:protector, the See also:influence of See also:Gloucester was uppermost. In that See also:year the queen dowager was received within See also:Bermondsey See also:Abbey, where she died in the following See also:January. Her children were taken from her, and Owen Tudor " the which dwelled with the said queen" was ordered to come into the king's presence. He had already seen the inside of Newgate See also:gaol, and he would not obey without a safe conduct. When he had the safe conduct sent him he came up from See also:Daventry and went at once to See also:sanctuary at See also:Westminster, whence even the temptations of the See also:tavern would not draw him. Allowed to go back to Wales, he was retaken and lodged again in Newgate.

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broke See also:prison again, with his See also:chaplain and his man, the sheriffs of See also:London having a See also:pardon in 1438 for the See also:escape from gaol of " Owen ap Tuder, See also:esquire," and he returned to his native Wales. When Henry VI. came of full See also:age he made some See also:provision for his step-father, who took the red See also:rose and fought manfully for it. But See also:Mortimer's See also:Cross was his last See also:battle (Feb. 4, 1460/1). He See also:fell into the hands of the Yorkists, who beheaded him in See also:Hereford See also:market place and set up his See also:bead on the market cross. Thither, they say, came a mad woman who combed the See also:hair and washed the See also:face of this See also:lover of a queen, setting lighted See also:wax torches See also:round about it. His eldest son Edmund of Hadham, born about 1430 at Hadham in Herts, one of his mother's manors, was brought up with his brothers by the See also:abbess of See also:Barking until he was about ten years old. The king then took them into his See also:charge. Edmund was a knight in 1449 and in 1453 he was summoned as See also:earl of Richmond, his patent, dated the 6th of See also:March 1452/3, giving him See also:precedence next to the See also:dukes. He was declared of legitimate See also:birth, and in 1455 the royal favour found him a wife in the See also:Lady See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:John See also:Beaufort, See also:duke of See also:Somerset. But he died the next year, and his only See also:child, afterwards Henry VII., was born on the 28th of January 1456/7, three months after his See also:death. Edmund's younger brother, Jasper Tudor, survived him many years.

Jasper was knighted in 1449 and, about the date of Edmund's patent, was created earl of See also:

Pembroke. He See also:bore the royal arms of France and England, differenced with a See also:blue border charged with the royal martletsof the See also:Confessor's fabulous See also:shield, and the same was formerly to be seen upon his Garter See also:stall-See also:plate of 1459. He fought at St Albans in 1455 for the king who had advanced him, and two years later we find him strengthening the defences of See also:Tenby. In 146o he seized and took See also:Denbigh, where the queen joined him after See also:Northampton. He shared the defeat in 1461 at Mortimer's Cross, where his father the Welsh squire was taken and beheaded, and See also:left the country in 1462. In 1465 he made a last descent upon Wales, to be driven off by See also:William See also:Herbert, who was rewarded with his earldom of Pembroke, already forfeited by See also:attainder. But he was an obstinate and loyal See also:partisan. He came back again with See also:Warwick in 1470 and was hurrying to join the queen when See also:Tewkesbury was fought and lost. After many adventures he carried off his young See also:nephew Richmond to See also:Brittany. The two came back together in 1485. After See also:Bosworth, Jasper was created duke of Bedford and restored to his earldom, the earl-marshalship being given him in 1492. He lived to fight at Stoke in 1487 against See also:Lincoln and See also:Simnel his puppet and to be one of the leaders of the See also:host that landed in France in 1492.

He died in 1495 leaving no issue by his wife Catherine, the widow of the second duke of See also:

Buckingham and a daughter of Richard Widvile, Earl See also:Rivers. But his bastard daughter Ellen is said to have been mother of See also:Stephen See also:Gardiner, bishop of See also:Winchester.

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