Edmund Tudor, 1st Duke of Somerset

Edmund Tudor, depicted as an older child in a family portrait (detail from a painting from 1509)

Edmund Tudor (born February 21, 1499 in the Palace of Greenwich , † June 19, 1500 in Hatfield ) was the third son of the English King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York . He was baptized on February 24th in Gray Friar's Church and named after his grandfather Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond . Edmund received the title of Duke of Somerset , but was never officially raised to it in a ceremony.

He lived with his older siblings Henry , who later became King Henry VIII, Margaret and Mary, for the most part in Eltham Palace , where the royal nursery was located. In the summer of 1499, when Edmund was a few months old, the famous humanist Erasmus von Rotterdam visited the royal children there. The scholar wrote of his reception: “In the middle stood Heinrich, nine years old ... On his right was Margaret, about eleven years old ... On his left was Mary, a child of four. Edmund was a baby in his wet nurse's arms ”. This wet nurse was Alice Skern, who had previously nursed his sister Mary.

Edmund died of unknown reasons at the age of one while his parents were negotiating in English-occupied Calais , and was buried in Westminster Abbey . Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham , led the funeral procession for him .

Pedigree

Web links

• Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, on thepeerage.com , accessed October 6, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Starkey, David: Henry: Virtuous Prince, Harper Perennial, London, 2009, p. 70
2. ↑ Starkey, David: Henry: Virtuous Prince, Harper Perennial, London, 2009, p. 138

predecessor	title	successor
New title created	Duke of Somerset 1499-1500	Title expired