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Statue of Henry VII
Henry VII of England (r. 1485-1509) was a descendant of Edward III on his mother’s side and a leader of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses. He defeated the Yorkist king, Richard III, at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 and made himself the first Tudor king. He spent his reign bringing an end to the war, suppressing Yorkist revolts, and placing restrictions upon the powers of the nobility. He died an unpopular king in 1509, and today, he is most famous as the father of Henry VIII.
The statue was built by Harriet Addyman in 2017, just outside the grounds of Pembroke Castle, south Wales, where Henry was born. The statue presents Henry wearing a long cloak and a hat; around his neck hangs a chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, a Burgundian chivalric order he was inducted into in 1491. In his left hand is a royal orb, the symbol of sovereignty, and his right hand is stroking a greyhound, an animal often depicted on Tudor banners.
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