Who ruled before the Tudors?

Answer 1

Before the Tudors were the Plantagenets. The last Plantagenet king was Richard III. The first Tudor king was Henry II.

Shakespeare wrote a play about Richard III, which showed him as a villain. Scholars nowadays think that might have been a bit of Propaganda because he was writing for a Tudor Queen (Elizabeth).

Answer 2

Before the Tudors there was a period known as the Wars of the Roses: The House of York fighting against Lancaster for the crown, the reigning monarchs being Henrys IV, V & VI of the house of Lancaster against Edwards IV & V & then Richard III of York. In 1485 Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth.

Answer 3

her half sister Mary I from 1553-1558 Mary was about 18 years older than Elizabeth

Answer 4

Her uncle, George the 4th. He was the last of the Georgians. The time-line goes, Tudors, Stuarts, Georgians and then the Victorians.

Answer 5

Edward V ruled England for 2 months in 1483 at age 13. He was murdered in the Tower of London.

Answer 6

Richard III was King before Henry Tudor and before him it was Edward V (one of the princes in the tower), before him it was Edward IV and before him it was Henry VI.

Answer 7

His father Henry VII.

Answer 8

His father Henry VII

Answer 9

Her father George VI (1936-1952).

Answer 10

Henry VII did, who was his father