Tudor

Tudor is a surname and given name of Welsh origin. It comes from the Brythonic Tudur, itself a derivation of Toutorīx which was conflated with Tewdwr or Tewdr. It is related to the name Theodore. The English royal dynasty, the House of Tudor (descended from the Welsh Tudors of Penmynydd) including prominent members: Tudur ap Goronwy, administrator of the Penmynydd family, Owen Tudor's grandfather and the eponymous ancestor of the House of Tudor Owen Tudor, lover or possibly second husband of Catherine of Valois, and grandfather of King Henry VII Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois, father of King Henry VII Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, second son of Owen and Catherine and brother of Edmund, uncle of King Henry VII Arthur Tudor, eldest son of King Henry VII (predeceased his father) Margaret Tudor, Queen Consort of Scotland, eldest daughter of King Henry VII. Mother of James V of Scots which gave rise to the House of Stuart in England. Mary Tudor, Queen of France, latterly Mary Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, second daughter of King Henry VII Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, third son of King Henry VII Tudor, as a surname, may also refer to: Adrian Tudor, a Romanian basketball player Alex Tudor, an English cricketer Alexandru Tudor, a Romanian football referee Antony Tudor, a British choreographer Corneliu Vadim Tudor, a Romanian politician Cristian Tudor, a Romanian footballer David Tudor, an American pianist Edward Tudor-Pole, a British singer Fran Tudor, a Croatian football (soccer) player Frank Tudor, an Australian politician Frederic Tudor (1783–1864), an American entrepreneur known as Boston's "Ice King" Henri Tudor, a Luxembourgian industrialist and inventor Henry Hugh Tudor, a British soldier, later police chief in Ireland and then Palestine Igor Tudor, a Croatian football (soccer) player Joel Tudor, an American longboard surfer John Tudor (footballer), an English football (soccer) player John Tudor (baseball), an American baseball player Larissa Tudor (d. 1926), a British woman who appeared strikingly similar to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia but never actually claimed to be the former grand duchess. Many people who knew Larissa strongly suspected that she was the former grand duchess of Russia. Luka Tudor (b.