![]() ![]() Neither is it true that William and Ellen were the parents of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester (d.1555), or Richard (1486-1546), William (1488-1549) or Alice (d.1588) Gardiner. This makes a good story, but is largely untrue. These same sources say he was afterward knighted on the battlefield by Henry VII, Jasper Tudor’s nephew, and after that married Jasper’s illegitimate daughter. Other sources call him a cloth merchant, still others a grocer, and some say he hired out as a mercenary and was one of the men who killed Richard III on the battlefield at Bosworth in 1485. She married William Gardiner (c.1450-1485), a skinner, according to the Oxford DNB. Margaret Grey)Įllen Tudor was the illegitimate daughter of Jasper Tudor, duke of Bedford (c.1431-December 21, 1495) and a woman possibly named Mevanvy. Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, SLC Archives. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. Her husbands were half brothers.1 She married William Gardiner, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Gardiner, circa 1475.1 Helen Tudor married John Gardiner, son of Sir Thomas Gardiner, after 1506.3 Helen Tudor was born illegitimate circa 1455 She is illegitimate.Father Sir Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, Duke of Bedford2 b. ![]() Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959 reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 73. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 130.
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