This was a foundational challenge since Henry VII, once Henry Tudor, might have won the crown militarily but ... Gary Shapley was swapped out just days after being appointed.

Why were the Tudors such an influential family? Let’s take a look. Before Henry VII became king, the houses of Lancaster and York had been fighting over the English crown for 30 years.

Henry Tudor is crowned King of England on the battlefield at Bosworth after his army defeats and kills Richard III. Henry VII presents himself as the unifier of the warring Lancaster and York ...

Between the 1450s and the 1480s, the territories of the English crown were divided by the struggle ... The ultimate victor, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III on his mother's side, was ...