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14 | <Metadata name="Title">Primary Sources: The obituary of King Henry VII, 1509</Metadata>
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34 | <p align="center">&nbsp;<br>
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36 | <img border="0" src="_httpdocimg_/1509.gif" alt="Primary Sources: 1509: The obituary of King Henry VII" width="436" height="73"><p align="center">&nbsp;</td>
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44 | <td valign="top" width="48%" bgcolor="#FFFFE8"><font size="2">The account
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45 | at right was recorded in the <i>Anglica Historia</i>.</font><p>
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46 | <font size="2">Henry VII was the first Tudor king of England.&nbsp; He was
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47 | born on 28 January 1457 to Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor, earl of
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48 | Richmond and half-brother of the ill-fated King Henry VI.&nbsp; Henry was
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49 | born when his mother was just 13 years old; he was her only child.&nbsp;
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50 | His father died a few months prior to his birth.</font></p>
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51 | <p><font size="2">Henry had a tumultuous life, much of it spent in exile
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52 | until he fought King Richard III at Bosworth Field in the summer of 1485.&nbsp;
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53 | Richard's own forces betrayed him, most notably Henry's step-uncle and
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54 | stepfather; he died in battle.&nbsp; Henry was crowned king of England and
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55 | soon married the royal princess Elizabeth of York.</font></p>
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56 | <p><font size="2">Henry's improbable rise encouraged those qualities which
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57 | made him a very effective but personally unpopular king.&nbsp; He was
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58 | secretive, acquisitive, and rarely trusted others.&nbsp; He gained a
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59 | reputation as both greedy and miserly.&nbsp; He may have been both but
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60 | keep in mind that he inherited a bankrupt government; he died solvent, no
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61 | small achievement for a king.</font></p>
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62 | <p><font size="2">After the upheaval of the 'Wars of the Roses', the
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63 | English people desired peace.&nbsp; They were prepared to accept Henry's
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64 | very dubious claim to the throne (via his mother, through a rumored
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65 | marriage between her great-grandfather, a royal duke, and his mistress) if
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66 | he provided a stable government.&nbsp; He did so, and his position was
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67 | greatly strengthened by his marriage to the popular Elizabeth of York.&nbsp;
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68 | Even more importantly, he provided two male heirs within a few years of
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69 | marriage.</font></p>
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70 | <p><font size="2">Henry's true genius was in administration.&nbsp; He did
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71 | not reform government, but he did increase its effectiveness.&nbsp; He
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72 | also reestablished royal authority over the English nobility.&nbsp; His
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73 | later years were unexpectedly difficult.&nbsp; The deaths of Prince Arthur
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74 | and Elizabeth of York within a year of each other saddened him personally
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75 | and made the succession more insecure.&nbsp; His own death in 1509 was
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76 | preceded by several years of illness.&nbsp; He was succeeded by his 18
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77 | year old son, Henry.</font></td>
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80 | <p align="left">He [Henry VII] well knew how to maintain his royal majesty and all
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81 | which appertains to kingship at every time and in every place.&nbsp; He
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82 | was most fortunate in war, although he was constitutionally more inclined
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83 | to peace than to war.&nbsp; He cherished justice above all things; as a
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84 | result he vigorously punished violence, manslaughter and every other kind
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85 | of wickedness whatsoever.&nbsp; Consequently he was greatly regretted on
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86 | that account by all his subjects, who had been able to conduct their lives
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87 | peaceably, far removed from the assaults and evil doings of scoundrels.&nbsp;
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88 | He was the most ardent supporter of our faith and daily participated with
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89 | great piety in religious services....<br>But all these virtues were obscured latterly by avarice, from which
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90 | he suffered.&nbsp; This avarice is surely a bad enough vice in a private
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91 | individual, whom it forever torments; in a monarch indeed it may be considered
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92 | the worst vice since it is harmful to everyone and distorts those qualities
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93 | of trustfulness, justice and integrity by which the State must be governed.
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