Review: Tudor - The Family Story, By Leanda de Lisle. How to breed a dynasty. ... and Edmund Tudor, the son of Catherine of Valois's second husband, the commoner Owen Tudor – was weak.

Henry VIII. Edmund married Margaret Beaufort, daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset. The couple had a sole son, Henry Tudor, born January 1457 at Pembroke Castle in Wales.

From this family arose Owen Tudor and therefore the Tudor dynasty that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. ... The couple had two sons, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and Jasper Tudor. ...