Jasper Tudor

Jasper Tudor is represented in the linked historical fiction through family, marriage and personal loyalty, court politics and dynastic power, and political ambition and government. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.

In David Field’s Tudor Dawn, as Henry VI and Edward IV struggle for the crown, the young Henry Tudor grows up under guard and then in exile. In David Field’s The Flowering of the Tudor Rose, in fifteenth-century Wales and Brittany, the fatherless Henry Tudor grows from a guarded child into the principal Lancastrian claimant to the English throne. Other novels featuring Jasper Tudor include Joanna Hickson’s First of the Tudors and Joanna Hickson’s The Tudor Crown.