. Historical portraits ... d. After this failure Henry repaired to France, whereEnglish exiles gathered round him in 1484-5; and on August i ofthe latter year he sailed from Harfleur with about 2,000 men, landedin Wales and defeated and slew Richard HI at Bosworth threeweeks later. He was well received in London as King Henry VIIand was crowned in October; Parliament entailed the Crown on himand the heirs of his body. He had, however, solemnly sworn inFrance to marry the Princess Elizabeth, now the undoubted heiressof the Yorkist claims, and thus to unite the two rival houses. Themarriage took
. Historical portraits ... d. After this failure Henry repaired to France, whereEnglish exiles gathered round him in 1484-5; and on August i ofthe latter year he sailed from Harfleur with about 2,000 men, landedin Wales and defeated and slew Richard HI at Bosworth threeweeks later. He was well received in London as King Henry VIIand was crowned in October; Parliament entailed the Crown on himand the heirs of his body. He had, however, solemnly sworn inFrance to marry the Princess Elizabeth, now the undoubted heiressof the Yorkist claims, and thus to unite the two rival houses. Themarriage took place at the beginning of i486, but Henry was alwayscareful to maintain that his title to the Crown was independentof his wifes. Two successive pretenders to the throne, eachclaiming to represent a Plantagenet prince, were easily disposedof—Lambert Simnel at the battle of Stoke in 1487, and PerkinWarbeck, who gave more trouble, by adroit diplomacy with thevarious European Courts which had successively given him shelter,. HENRY VII From the portrait in the National Portrait GalleryPainter unknown Face p. 26 HENRY VII 27 in 1497. When the French threatened in 1490 to absorb Brittany,Henry felt it to be a necessary diplomatic move to get up anexpedition against France, and actually crossed the Channel andlaid siege to Boulogne two 3ears later. But he was able to letKing Charles VIII understand that he was quite ready to treat,and they made a treaty at Etaples. When Perkin Warbeckfinally left Scotland in 1497, Henry concluded with James IV atruce which soon became a peace, and which was based upon themarriage of his elder daughter, Margaret, to the Scottish King,From 1499 to 1506 a real scion of the Plantagenet house, Edmundde la Pole, Earl of Suffolk, gave the King some trouble, but Henryat last got the Duke of Burgundy, who had protected Edmund, tosurrender him in the latter year. In 1501 he was able to marry hiselder son Arthur to Katharine, princess of Spain, and, when Arthu
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