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Roland de Velville

Was Roland de Velville the son of Henry VII….?

Jun 25, 2017

anniversaries, genealogy

“Beauforts”, Agnes Griffith, Anglesey, bardic tradition, Battle of Bosworth, Beaumaris Castle, bigamy, Blackheath, Breton expedition 1489, Brittany, Catherine de Valois, Catherine of Berain, Daffyd Alaw, dispensations, DNA, Edmund “Tudor”, Edward IV, Elizabeth of York, Gwynedd, hawking, Henry V, Henry VII, Henry VIII, hunting, Owain Tudor, Roland de Roncevaux, Roland de Velville, royal marriages, secret marriage, Sir John Cheney, Sir Robert Willoughby

The following article is necessarily filled with supposition, inference and sneaking suspicion. The result of smoke and mirrors, you ask? Well, I think it is all much more substantial than that, as I hope to explain in the coming paragraphs. Today (25th June) in 1545, died a man by the name of Roland de Velville…
Henry VII was a naughty boy with a lot of illegitimate children….?

Apr 8, 2015

Uncategorized

Bessie Blount, Brittany, Henry Fitzroy, Henry VII, Henry VIII, Roland de Velville

Before I start, I have to confess that the inspiration for this article is not mine, but Merlyn MacLeod’s. I am writing in her stead. There is always a suggestion that ‘untruths’ about Richard have a habit of sticking, like the proverbial mud, but it is not so often that the same thing happens to Henry…