Jasper Tudor Earl of Pembroke and his nephew Henry Tudor fled to Brittany after Tewkesbury, where they were kept under loose custody by Duke Francis II. Edward IV repeatedly demanded their extradition. The Breton exile preserved the Tudor dynasty and allowed Henry to mature as a political and military figure. When Francis nearly surrendered them in 1483 they escaped into France.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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