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HOUSE OF TUDOR
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)
Synonyms:
House of Tudor; Tudor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("House of Tudor" is a kind of...):
dynasty (a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family)
Meronyms (members of "House of Tudor"):
Tudor (a member of the dynasty that ruled England)
Elizabeth; Elizabeth I (Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603))
Grey; Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days in 1553; she was quickly replaced by Mary Tudor and beheaded for treason (1537-1554))
Henry Tudor; Henry VII (first Tudor king of England from 1485 to 1509; head of the house of Lancaster in the War of the Roses; defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field and was proclaimed king; married the daughter of Edward IV and so united the houses of York and Lancaster (1457-1509))
Henry VIII (son of Henry VII and King of England from 1509 to 1547; his divorce from Catherine of Aragon resulted in his break with the Catholic Church in 1534 and his excommunication 1538, leading to the start of the Reformation in England (1491-1547))
Bloody Mary; Mary I; Mary Tudor (daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558))
