Elizabeth of York
Elizabetha Eboracensis
Queen of England · Princess of England
1466 – 1503
Biography
Eldest daughter of Edward IV and the senior surviving Yorkist claimant after her brothers vanished in the Tower. Her marriage to the victorious Henry Tudor in 1486 fused the warring houses of York and Lancaster, founding the Tudor dynasty and ending the Wars of the Roses by union rather than further bloodshed. Mother of Henry VIII and grandmother of Mary I and Elizabeth I, she is the genealogical bridge between the Plantagenet and Tudor lines.
Events
On 18 January 1486 Henry Tudor married Elizabeth of York, eldest surviving daughter of Edward IV, in Westminster Abbey. The match fused the warring Lancastrian and Yorkist branches of the Plantagenet house, ending the Wars of the Roses by dynastic union rather than continued bloodshed. Their grandson Henry VIII would be the result; through their granddaughter Margaret, the union also transmitted the English crown to the Stuart line a century later.
Also there: Henry VII
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