Henry VII Marries Elizabeth of York

1486

The Lancastrian victor wed the Yorkist heiress in Westminster, combining the red and white roses into the Tudor rose. It was a symbolic end to the civil wars. The dynastic peace that followed was secured less by romance than by Henry's ruthless bookkeeping of noble loyalty and income. The marriage produced heirs whose descendants would sit on the thrones of England, Scotland, France, and Spain.