Public Family Trees/Tudor/Elizabeth of York
1466 - 1503 · Female · Westminster, London, England
Daughter of Edward IV Plantagenet and Elizabeth Woodville
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Elizabeth of York was queen of England as the wife of Henry VII and the mother of Henry VIII, and the only Englishwoman to be the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of kings. Born at the Palace of Westminster in 1466, she was the eldest child of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Her father's death in 1483 left her and her siblings declared illegitimate under Richard III, and her marriage to the victorious Henr…
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Born to Edward IV Plantagenet, Elizabeth Woodville.
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Gen 1 · 1401 - 1437
Catherine of Valois was a French princess who became queen of England as the wife of Henry V and, by her second marriage, the grandmother of Henry VII. Born in Paris in 1401, the youngest daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria, she was married to Henry V in 1420 under the Treaty of Troyes, which was meant to settle the Hundred Years' War by making her husband heir to the French throne. Their only child succeeded as Henry VI of England at the age of nine months. Widowed at twenty, Catherine formed a lasting union with Owen Tudor, a Welshman of her household, and their sons Edmund and Jasper Tudor grew up under the protection of their royal half-brother. She died in 1437 and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
Gen 1 · 1404 - 1444
John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, was an English nobleman and soldier of the Lancastrian royal house and the father of Lady Margaret Beaufort. Born in 1404, he was a grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, through Gaunt's marriage to Katherine Swynford, whose children were legitimated by parliament but later barred from the succession by a clause of doubtful authority. Captured in France as a young man at the Battle of Bauge, he spent some seventeen years as a prisoner of war before being ransomed. He was created Duke of Somerset in 1443 and given command of an expensive expedition to France that achieved nothing and ended in his disgrace at court. He died in 1444, leaving his infant daughter Margaret as his heiress and, through her, the Tudor line.
Gen 2 · 1443 - 1509
Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, was the mother of Henry VII and the source of the Lancastrian claim that put the Tudors on the English throne. Born at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire in 1443, the only surviving child of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, she was a great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt. Married to Edmund Tudor at twelve and widowed within a year, she gave birth to her only child at Pembroke Castle in 1457. Through the Yorkist decades she worked steadily for her exiled son's cause, helping to arrange the understanding with the Woodvilles that preceded Bosworth. As the king's mother she was a formidable landowner, a patron of printing and learning, and the founder of Christ's College and St John's College, Cambridge. She died in 1509.
Gen 2 · 1449 - 1478
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, was an English prince of the House of York, a younger brother of Edward IV and Richard III and the father of Margaret Pole. Born at Dublin Castle in 1449 while his father served as the king's lieutenant in Ireland, he was created Duke of Clarence at his brother's coronation in 1461. In 1469 he married Isabel Neville, elder daughter of the Earl of Warwick, and joined his father-in-law's rebellion against the king before changing sides again and being reconciled. Relations with Edward IV broke down once more after Isabel's death, and he was attainted by parliament and died in the Tower of London in February 1478. His daughter Margaret carried the Plantagenet bloodline into the Tudor century.
Gen 3 · 1473 - 1541
Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, was an English noblewoman and one of the last of the House of Plantagenet, a first cousin of Elizabeth of York and for many years a trusted figure at the court of Henry VIII. Born in 1473 to George, Duke of Clarence, and Isabel Neville, she was married to Sir Richard Pole, a loyal servant of Henry VII, and bore five children, among them Cardinal Reginald Pole. Henry VIII restored her to the earldom of Salisbury in her own right in 1513, a rare distinction for a woman, and appointed her governess to Princess Mary, to whom she remained devoted through the years of Mary's disgrace. Her family's opposition to the king's religious policy brought her attainder in 1539 and her death at the Tower of London in 1541.
Gen 6 · 1537 - 1554
Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen of England in July 1553 and held the throne for nine days, the shortest reign in English history. Born at Bradgate Park in Leicestershire in 1537, the eldest daughter of Henry Grey and Frances Brandon and a great-granddaughter of Henry VII, she was among the best-educated women of her generation, reading Latin and Greek and corresponding with continental reformers; the scholar Roger Ascham left a famous account of finding her reading Plato while her family hunted. In May 1553 she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, and on the death of Edward VI she was named queen under his device for the succession. Support collapsed within days in favour of Mary I. She died at the Tower of London in February 1554, aged about seventeen.
Gen 6 · 1540 - 1568
Lady Catherine Grey was an English noblewoman whose claim to the English succession turned her marriage into a matter of state. Born in 1540, the second daughter of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, and Frances Brandon, she was a great-granddaughter of Henry VII and, after the death of her elder sister Lady Jane Grey, the senior heir to the throne under the will of Henry VIII. Her first marriage, to Lord Herbert, was annulled after the failure of her sister's claim in 1553. In 1560 she married Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, in secret and without the queen's consent; when her pregnancy revealed the match, Elizabeth I had both imprisoned in the Tower of London and the marriage declared invalid. She had two sons and died in custody at Cockfield Hall in Suffolk in 1568.
Gen 6 · 1542 - 1587
Mary, Queen of Scots, was queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567 and the mother of James VI and I, who joined the Scottish and English crowns. Born at Linlithgow Palace in December 1542, the daughter of James V and Mary of Guise, she became queen at six days old and was brought up at the French court, marrying the dauphin, later Francis II, in 1558. Widowed at eighteen, she returned to a Scotland transformed by the Reformation. Her marriage to her cousin Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, produced a son but collapsed in bitterness, and after her subsequent marriage to the Earl of Bothwell she was forced to abdicate in 1567. She fled to England, where her claim to the English throne made her the focus of plots against Elizabeth I. She was tried and executed at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587.
Gen 6 · 1545 - 1567
Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, was the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the father of James VI and I. Born at Temple Newsam in Yorkshire in December 1545 to Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, and Lady Margaret Douglas, he was a great-grandson of Henry VII through both of his parents and so carried a claim to the English throne in his own right. Tall, well educated and ambitious, he married Mary at Holyrood in July 1565 and was styled king of Scots, though the queen refused him the crown matrimonial. Their son, the future James VI, was born in June 1566. His part in the killing of the queen's secretary David Rizzio destroyed the marriage, and he died at Kirk o' Field in Edinburgh in February 1567.
Gen 7 · 1566 - 1625
James VI and I was king of Scots from 1567 and king of England and Ireland from 1603, the first monarch to rule both kingdoms and the successor who followed the last of the Tudors. Born at Edinburgh Castle in June 1566 to Mary, Queen of Scots, and Lord Darnley, he became king of Scotland at thirteen months after his mother's abdication and was brought up by regents and tutors, among them the scholar George Buchanan. Descended from Henry VII through both of his parents, he succeeded Elizabeth I in March 1603 in the peaceful transfer known as the Union of the Crowns. A prolific author on kingship and witchcraft, he commissioned the Authorised King James Version of the Bible. He died at Theobalds House in 1625.
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Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, was the elder son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois and the father of Henry VII. Born at Much Hadham in Hertfordshire around 1430, he and his brother Jasper were acknowledged as half-brothers of Henry VI, who knighted them and raised them to earldoms in 1452. In 1455 Edmund married Lady Margaret Beaufort, then twelve years old and heiress to the senior Lancastrian claim to the throne. Sent to South Wales to assert royal authority as the Wars of the Roses began, he was captured by Yorkist forces and died at Carmarthen in November 1456, three months before the birth of his only child, the future Henry VII. He was buried at Greyfriars in Carmarthen and later reinterred at St Davids Cathedral.
The Gandhi family is the direct biological lineage of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), the Indian independence leader known as Mahatma Gandhi, tracing his descendants through his wife Kasturba Gandhi and their four sons down to his great-grandchildren active in India, South Africa and beyond. This family is entirely distinct from the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty of Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, whose surname comes from Indira Gandhi's husband Feroze Gandhy and shares no blood relation with Mahatma Gandhi at all. ## Origins The family's roots lie in Porbandar, in the Kathiawar region of present-day Gujarat, where Mohandas Gandhi was born to Karamchand Gandhi, diwan (chief minister) of the princely state, and his wife Putlibai. Gandhi married Kasturba Makhanji Kapadia in 1883, and the couple's shared life, spanning his legal training in London, two decades of activism in South Africa, and his return to lead India's independence movement, produced four sons: Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas and Devdas. Each son's branch of the family took a markedly different path, from journalism and diplomacy to activism against apartheid, while remaining bound by their shared descent from Mohandas and Kasturba. ## Notable members Manilal Gandhi carried his father's work to South Africa, editing the newspaper Indian Opinion for decades; his children Arun Gandhi and Ela Gandhi became, respectively, an internationally known peace educator and an anti-apartheid Member of the South African Parliament. Devdas Gandhi became a leading Indian journalist as editor of the Hindustan Times, and his four children with Lakshmi Gandhi, Rajmohan, Ramchandra, Gopalkrishna and Tara, went on to prominence as a historian, a philosopher, a diplomat-turned-Governor of West Bengal, and a writer. The family's fourth generation includes Tushar Gandhi, a great-grandson through eldest son Harilal's line, known for his writing on his great-grandfather's life and legacy. ## Significance Across four generations, the Gandhi family has remained closely tied to the causes Mohandas Gandhi championed: nonviolent resistance, civil rights, journalism in service of public life, and constructive social work, carried forward in India, South Africa and internationally rather than concentrated in any single institution or country. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Patriarch | Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) | | Native place | Porbandar, Gujarat, India | | Spouse | Kasturba Gandhi (1869-1944) | | Sons | Harilal, Manilal, Ramdas, Devdas | | Generations covered | 4 (parents to great-grandchildren) | | Members in this tree | 21 | | Distinct from | The Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty |
The Chakri dynasty is the ruling royal house of Thailand, founded in 1782 by King Rama I (Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke) and continuing through ten monarchs to the reigning king, Rama X (Vajiralongkorn). For nearly two and a half centuries it has presided over Siam's transformation from an early modern Southeast Asian kingdom into the modern nation of Thailand, surviving colonial pressure, foreign war, and the 1932 shift from absolute to constitutional monarchy. ## Origins The dynasty takes its name from its founder's pre-royal title, Chao Phraya Chakri, the highest military rank in the old Siamese order. After serving as a general under King Taksin of Thonburi, he took the throne amid the political turmoil that followed Taksin's downfall, founded Bangkok as the new capital in 1782, and set about restoring the laws, religious texts, and administrative structures that had been lost when Ayutthaya fell to Burma in 1767. His descendants ruled in direct succession from father to son or brother to brother, with several kings, notably Rama III, having no direct heir positioned to inherit and the throne instead passing sideways to a brother or nephew. ## Notable members Several Chakri kings are individually significant. Rama IV (Mongkut) spent nearly three decades as a Buddhist monk before opening Siam to Western trade and diplomacy. His son Rama V (Chulalongkorn) abolished slavery and modernized the kingdom's administration while keeping it the only Southeast Asian state never colonized by a European power. Rama VII (Prajadhipok) presided over the end of absolute monarchy in 1932 and abdicated in 1935. Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulyadej), who reigned for seventy years until 2016, became the longest-reigning monarch in Thai history, and his children include the current king, Rama X, and the widely respected Princess Sirindhorn. ## Significance The Chakri dynasty is unique among Southeast Asian royal houses for its continuous, unbroken rule and its central role in preserving Thai national identity and independence through the colonial era. Its monarchs remain constitutionally central to Thai public life today, with the king serving as head of state and a unifying symbol above elected politics. | Fact | Details | |---|---| | Founded | 1782, by Rama I | | Current monarch | Rama X (Vajiralongkorn), since 2016 | | Capital established | Bangkok | | Number of kings to date | Ten | | Longest reign | Rama IX (Bhumibol Adulyadej), 1946-2016 | | Country | Thailand (formerly Siam) |
The Bachchan family is an Indian family of poets, film actors and industrialists, descended from the Hindi poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan of Allahabad and known above all for his elder son, the actor Amitabh Bachchan, whose own marriage and children have kept the family at the centre of Hindi cinema for more than half a century. ## Origins in Allahabad The family's documented line begins with Pratap Narayan Shrivastava, a Srivastava Kayastha from Babupatti in the Raniganj area of Pratapgarh district, in what is now Uttar Pradesh, who settled in Allahabad and worked in the city's paper trade. He and his wife Saraswati Devi had a son, Harivansh Rai, born in 1907. The boy was called "Bachchan" at home, a Hindi word meaning child, and he later took the nickname as his pen name. It has been the family surname ever since, which is why the Bachchans carry a name that began as a term of endearment rather than a caste or clan title. ## Poet, star and the generations after Harivansh Rai Bachchan became one of the most widely read Hindi poets of the twentieth century. His 1935 collection Madhushala is still recited across north India, and he combined writing with teaching English at Allahabad University, a Cambridge doctorate on W. B. Yeats, and service in the Ministry of External Affairs. His first wife, Shyama, died in 1936; his second, Teji Suri, was a Punjabi social activist who became a well-known figure in Delhi's cultural life. Their sons were Amitabh, born in 1942, and the businessman Ajitabh, born in 1947. Amitabh Bachchan's career, from Saat Hindustani in 1969 through Zanjeer, Deewaar and Sholay to Kaun Banega Crorepati, made him the single most recognisable figure in Indian popular culture. He married the actress Jaya Bhaduri in 1973, joining the family to the Bhaduris of Bhopal, whose head was the journalist and author Taroon Kumar Bhaduri. Their daughter Shweta became an author and columnist, and their son Abhishek an actor. ## The Nanda and Rai branches Two marriages widened the family considerably. In 1997 Shweta married Nikhil Nanda of Delhi, chairman of the Escorts Kubota engineering group, the son of the industrialist Rajan Nanda and of Ritu Nanda, herself a daughter of the film-maker Raj Kapoor. Their children are the entrepreneur Navya Naveli Nanda and the actor Agastya Nanda. In 2007 Abhishek married Aishwarya Rai, Miss World 1994 and one of Indian cinema's most internationally recognised stars, bringing in the Rai family of coastal Karnataka: her father Krishnaraj Rai, a biologist with the Indian Army, her mother Brindya, and her brother Aditya. ## Significance Few Indian families span so many fields in four generations: Hindi literature, mainstream cinema, heavy engineering and parliamentary politics, with Jaya Bachchan serving several terms in the Rajya Sabha. The Bachchan house in Mumbai has been a fixed point of Indian public life for decades, and the family's marriages have tied it to the Bhaduris, the Nandas and, through Ritu Nanda, to the Kapoor film dynasty. | Fact | Details | | --- | --- | | Founding figure | Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907-2003), Hindi poet | | Surname origin | "Bachchan", a childhood nickname meaning "child", adopted as a pen name | | Native place | Babupatti, Pratapgarh district, and Allahabad (Prayagraj), Uttar Pradesh | | Best known member | Amitabh Bachchan (born 1942), actor | | Generations covered | Four, from Pratap Narayan Shrivastava to Navya Naveli and Agastya Nanda | | Families married in | Bhaduri of Bhopal, Nanda of Delhi, Rai of Mangalore | | Fields | Hindi poetry, cinema, business, politics |
Elizabeth of York's recorded parents are Edward IV Plantagenet, Elizabeth Woodville.
Elizabeth of York has 4 recorded children: Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII Tudor, Margaret Tudor, Mary Tudor.
Elizabeth of York married Henry VII Tudor.
Elizabeth of York is recorded as Queen consort of England in the Tudor family tree.
Elizabeth of York's recorded native place is Westminster, London, England.
4 ancestors and 19 descendants of Elizabeth of York are recorded so far, within a tree of 51 people.
Elizabeth of York is recorded as Henry VIII Tudor's Mother.
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