HOUSE OF TUDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does House of Tudor mean? 

• HOUSE OF TUDOR (noun)
  The noun HOUSE OF TUDOR has 1 sense:

1. an English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)

  Familiarity information: HOUSE OF TUDOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSE OF TUDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English dynasty descended from Henry Tudor; Tudor monarchs ruled from Henry VII to Elizabeth I (from 1485 to 1603)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

House of Tudor; Tudor

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))