During York’s Protectorate, other than clapping Somerset in the Tower with no charges brought, the Yorkists were generally inclusive, and achieved some improvements in government finance. The English were quite unprepared for a woman Regent, and York was appointed, probably with Jasper’s agreement. It became more complex when Henry VI suffered a complete mental breakdown, and York wished to be named as Protector of the Realm, whilst Queen Marguerite, whose son was born during the King’s illness, claimed the role of Regent for herself. In this, Jasper seems to have supported York. York, supported by many of Henry’s nobles, wanted to restrain the expenditure of the Crown, and dismiss Somerset from his offices. Salisbury’s son, the Earl of Warwick and Somerset’s wives were half-sisters –Īnd Warwick’s wife had inherited the earldom and all its lands, despite the Somerset was also in dispute with the son of York’sĬlosest friend and brother-in-law, Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury. Situation was complicated by the fact that York and Somerset hated each other Rescue the King from bad government, and that was probably true, but the York was careful, initially, to claim that he wanted to Marguerite finally gave birth to a son, after seven years of marriage, he was York was widely considered to be Henry VI’s heir, but when Leader of what might be called the opposition party, was In politics than was acceptable, and it was believed that she favoured someĬourtiers in a partisan way, particularly Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Probably because of Henry VI’s weakness, Queen Marguerite was far more involved Treaty, which ceded parts of English-held France was seen as a bad deal. Her popularity was not helped by the fact that her marriage King, but whose strength and determination alienated many who felt women shouldīe more emollient. He also had a wife who would probably have made an admirable Intentions, was a hopeless king in an era that prized military glory andĭecisiveness. Henry VI, whilst amiable and pious, and no doubt with the best They were also granted the wardship of the King’s wealthy cousin, Lady Margaret Beaufort, whom Edmund married six months after she achieved the minimum age of 12.īy the early 1450s, tensions at the English court were Edmund became Earl of Richmond, and Jasper received the Earldom of Pembroke – an important Marcher Lordship, centred on the castle of Pembroke, and the town of Tenby in South West Wales, as well as having lands throughout the Anglo-Welsh border, or ‘march’ as it was called. Henry became an affectionate and generous patron – knighting them, and granting to both large and valuable earldoms in 1453. When Jasper was probably in his early teens, the boys moved to the court of their half-brother, Henry VI. Unpopular) minister, the Earl of Suffolk. Katherine de la Pole, who was the sister of Henry VI’s chief (and most He spent most of his childhood at Barking Abbey, in the care of the abbess, Secret marriage between Katherine de Valois, widow of Henry V of England, and Jasper Tudor, born around 1431, was the second son of the
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