Jasper Tudor in 1470 took charge of him once more, and presented him to Henry VI. Henry had fallen, however, into the hands of William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, at the capture of Harlech. He had taken charge of young Henry when a little boy, and had seen to his education. One of the consequences of the revolution of 1470 had been the renewal of the connection between Jasper Tudor and his nephew Henry, earl of Richmond. He was too late to be of any service, and came up when the battle of Tewkesbury had been fought and lost on 4 May. He joined Margaret at Beaulieu, and then apparently went to gather fresh forces in Wales. His duties and influence then lay in the west, and it is improbable that he was at the battle of Barnet on 14 April. following constable of Gloucester Castle. 1470–1 he was made commissioner of array for South Wales and the marches, and on 14 Feb. He was appointed joint-lieutenant for Henry VI, and the earldom of Pembroke was restored to him. Jasper was with Warwick when he landed in Devonshire on 13 Sept. 1468, no doubt as a measure of security as well as of reward. The earldom of Pembroke was now given to William Herbert on 8 Sept. 1469) and indeed, though he is said to have held sessions and assizes in Henry VI's name, he effected little, and was finally defeated by the Herberts and forced once more to fly abroad. He took Denbigh, but could not reach Harlech, which was being besieged by William, Lord Herbert (d. In 1468, when a Lancastrian plot was discovered in England, he landed in North Wales (24 June). 1461), and probably joined Margaret's little court in Bar (cf. When most of the Lancastrians came to terms, he and Lord de Roos could not make any arrangement, and about Christmas 1462 they went to Scotland. In the plans for the invasion of England which followed the battle of Towton (29 March), it was suggested that he should go to Wales and try to land at Beau maris, a scheme which was not carried out, as he went first to Ireland in that year, and then in October was reported as ‘floon and taken the mounteyns.’ He took part in the invasion of the north of 1462, and was blockaded in Bamborough by Warwick's men. He was reported taken, but seems to have joined Margaret. The next year (1461) he and the Earl of Wiltshire were defeated by Edward, duke of York (afterwards Edward IV), at the battle of Mortimer's Cross (2 Feb.), near Wigmore. 1460, ordered him to give up Denbigh Castle to the Duke of York's deputy. Margaret of Anjou joined him at Denbigh soon after the battle of Northampton (10 July). In the early part of 1460 he engaged in the siege of Denbigh, which he took later in the year. He is noted as coming to the ill-fated parliament of Coventry in 1459 with ‘a good felechip.’ He was appointed K.G. He was occupied in Wales during 1457, and constructed some fortifications at Tenby (cf. His brother Edmund's widow, Margaret Tudor, was protected by him for some time after her husband's death in 1456, and it was at Jasper's residence, Pembroke Castle, that Henry, afterwards Henry VII, was born. He afterwards, at the meeting of parliament, took the oath to the king on 24 July 1455. He was present at the first battle of St. However, when it came to fighting there was no doubt as to his opinions. This may have been an error, or it may point to some jealousy on the part of the queen, to whom the Pembroke estates which Tudor had secured had been assigned in the first instance. The Lancastrian king made him many grants, notably in 1454, and hence it is surprising that he was at first looked on as a Yorkist (cf. On 6 March 1453, or possibly earlier, he was created Earl of Pembroke, and soon afterwards he seems to have visited Norwich with Queen Margaret of Anjou. He was knighted by his half-brother, Henry VI, on 25 Dec. He was, like his brother Edmund Tudor at first in the keeping of the abbess of Barking, and was, like him, subsequently educated by priests with some care. TUDOR, JASPER, Earl of Pembroke and Duke of Bedford, known as Jasper of Hatfield (1431?–1495), born about 1431 at Hatfield, was second son of Owen Tudor by Catherine of Valois widow of Henry V.
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