lochiels:Make Me Choose↳ Jasper Tudor or Henry StaffordAsked: willwriteforrunsJasper was an adventur
lochiels:Make Me Choose↳ Jasper Tudor or Henry StaffordAsked: willwriteforrunsJasper was an adventurer whose military expertise, some of it gained in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses, was considerable. Although there was uncertainty as to whether Jasper and his two (or three) brothers were legitimate, their parents’ probably secret marriage not being recognized by the authorities, he enjoyed all the privileges appropriate to his birth until 1461, when he was subject to an attainder for supporting King Henry VI against the Yorkists who eventually deposed him.It was thanks to Jasper that Henry acquired the tactical awareness that made it possible to defeat the far more experienced Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth. On Henry’s accession in 1485, Jasper was restored to all his former titles, including Knight of the Garter. He was also made high steward at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.Jasper died in December 1495, and was buried at Keynsham Abbey in Somerset, where he had founded a chantry for four priests, to sing mass for his father, Catherine his mother, and Edmund his elder brother. -- source link
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