Henry VII Tudor Dynasty
King Henry the VII was a great ruler, and the establisher of the Tudor Dynasty. ... This balance is created and maintained by Henry, firstly in his rise to the throne, then in his efforts to secure his place of authority over the people, and followed by eliminating the opposition and potential troubles to his rule. It is in this way that Henry was able to establish a secure dynasty that was able to be passed peacefully to an heir for the first time in 100 years. In order to create and establish a dynasty, firstly Henry needed to have a claim to the throne. Henry was born in 1457 to Edmund Tudor, and Margaret Beaufort. ... Henry was born and remained an only child and, after the Death of Henry VI, the only surviving one of Lancastrian ancestry. Because of the fierce competition for the crown between the Lancaster house and the house of York, Henry’s early life was in peril, and his uncle, Jasper Tudor, took him to live safely in exile in Brittany when Henry was just 14. But it wasn’t until the death of Edward the IV and the beginning of Richard III’s disliked rule that Henry was able to take advantage of his situation in order to take a rise to the throne. It was the Battle of Bosworth that was Henry’s first step in order to secure his place on the throne, and his name as a Dynasty. ... Henry, with the support of King Charles of France, and along with Lancastrian support who were eager to bring down Richard and have one of their own on the throne, spent three weeks in 1485 trying to muster support, though he didn’t attract much public support, because people didn’t know him because of his exile, he had never led troops into battle, so had not yet proved himself and he was facing the royal army, over twice his size, so the prospects were not looking good. Nevertheless, on the 22nd of August 1485, Henry went ahead, meeting Richard’s army, who already had the better position on the Battlefield, with Richard himself leading the cavalry. The only thing that Henry had going for him was the lack of actual loyalty on Richard’s side. ... At the time being they had held off weighing up the situation, they wanted Henry to win, but they were not sure if he could, while the Earl of Northumberland also stood to the side until the outcome was clearer. ... Henry, knowing it was only a matter of time before his own army was worn down, so he looked to the Stanley’s for help. ... The rest of his army broke up, leaving Henry to take the crown. Later on it was Henry who discredited Richard even more by claiming it was him who killed the young princes, even further discrediting Richard’s reign, while there was nobody there to question Henry’s accusations.