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Tudor rose

The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union Rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem

Heraldic badge

File:Badge of the Prince of Wales.svgIn heraldry, a badge is an emblem or personal device used to indicate allegiance to or property of an individual or family....
of England

England

Tudor dynasty

The House of Tudor was a prominent European royal house that ruled the Kingdom of England and its realms from 1485 until 1603. Founded by Henry VII of England, who, though his paternal family was Welsh people ?his grandfather was Owen Tudor? was himself also a legitimized descendent of the royal House of Lancaster....
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Origins
When Henry Tudor

Henry VII of England

Henry VII was the Kingdom of England and Lordship of Ireland from his usurpation of the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, as the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty....
took the crown of England

England

Richard III of England

Richard III was List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England of Kingdom of England from 1483 until his death. He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Field marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses and the end of the Plantagenet dynasty....
in battle, he brought about the end of the Wars of the Roses

Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of House of Lancaster and House of York....
between the House of Lancaster

House of Lancaster

The House of Lancaster was a branch of the royal House of Plantagenet. It was one of the opposing factions involved in the Wars of the Roses, an intermittent civil war which affected England and Wales during the 15th century....
(whose badge was a red rose) and the House of York

House of York

The House of York was a branch of the English royal House of Plantagenet, three of whom became List of monarchs of England in the late 15th century....
(whose badge was a white rose). His father was Edmund Tudor from the House of Richmond

Earl of Richmond

The title of Earl of Richmondshire was created many times in the Peerage of Peerage of England. The earldom of Richmond was held by various Bretons, Normans, the royal families of Plantagenet, Capet, Savoy, Tudor and Stewart....
, and his mother was Margaret Beaufort from the House of Lancaster; he married Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York was the daughter, sister, niece, wife and mother of Kings of England. She was List of English consorts as spouse of King Henry VII of England, whom she married in 1486....
to bring all factions together.

On his marriage, Henry adopted the Tudor Rose badge conjoining the White Rose of York

White Rose of York

The White Rose of York , a white rose , is the symbol of the House of York and has since been adopted as a symbol of Yorkshire as a whole....
and the Red Rose of Lancaster

Red Rose of Lancaster

The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire.The exact species or cultivar which the red rose relates to is uncertain, but it is thought to be Rosa gallica....
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The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union Rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem

Heraldic badge

File:Badge of the Prince of Wales.svgIn heraldry, a badge is an emblem or personal device used to indicate allegiance to or property of an individual or family....
of England

England

Tudor dynasty

Origins

When Henry Tudor

Henry VII of England

England

Richard III of England

Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic civil wars fought in England between supporters of the Houses of House of Lancaster and House of York....
between the House of Lancaster

House of Lancaster

House of York

Earl of Richmond

Elizabeth of York

White Rose of York

The White Rose of York , a white rose , is the symbol of the House of York and has since been adopted as a symbol of Yorkshire as a whole....
and the Red Rose of Lancaster

Red Rose of Lancaster

The Red Rose of Lancaster is the county flower of Lancashire.The exact species or cultivar which the red rose relates to is uncertain, but it is thought to be Rosa gallica....
. The Tudor Rose is occasionally seen divided in quarters (heraldically as 'quartered') and vertically (in heraldic terms

Heraldry

Heraldry is the profession, study, or art of devising, granting, and blazoning Coat of arms and ruling on questions of rank or protocol, as exercised by an officer of arms....
per pale) red and white. More often, the Tudor Rose is depicted as a double rose, white on red and is always described, heraldically, as 'proper'.

Historical uses

During his reign, Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was also Lordship of Ireland and claimant to the Early Modern France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII of England....
had the "Round Table

Round Table (Camelot)

The Round Table is King Arthur's famed table in the Arthurian legend, around which he and his Knights of the Round Tables congregate. As its name suggests, it has no head, implying that everyone who sits there has equal status....
" at Winchester Castle

Winchester Castle

Winchester Castle, is a castle in England in the city of Winchester, in the county of Hampshire, built in 1067. Only the Great Hall exists now; it houses a museum of the history of Winchester....
— then believed to be genuine — repainted. The new paint scheme included a Tudor Rose in the centre.

The Tudor rose badge might be slipped and crowned, that is, shown as a cutting with a stem and leaves beneath a crown; this badge appears in Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard

Nicholas Hilliard was an England goldsmith and limning best known for his portrait miniatures of members of the courts of Elizabeth I of England and James I of England....
's "Pelican Portrait" of Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was List of English monarchs and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the House of Tudor....
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The Tudor rose might also be dimidiated (cut in half and combined with half another emblem) to form a compound badge. The Westminster Tournament Roll includes a badge of Henry and his first wife Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon

Catherine of Aragon also known as Katherine or Katharine; was the List of English consorts as the Wives of Henry VIII of Henry VIII of England, and Princess of Wales by her first marriage to Arthur, Prince of Wales....
with a slipped Tudor rose conjoined with Catherine's personal badge, the pomegranate

Pomegranate

The pomegranate is a fruit-bearing deciduous shrub or small tree growing to between five and eight metres tall. The pomegranate is native to the region from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and has been cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean Basin region and the Caucasus since ancient times....
; their daughter Mary I

Mary I of England

Mary I , was Queen of England and Monarchy of Ireland from 19 July 1553 until her death. The fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, she is remembered for restoring England to Roman Catholicism after succeeding her short-lived half brother, Edward VI of England, to the English throne....
bore the same badge. James I of England and VI of Scotland

James I of England

James VI and I was List of monarchs of Scotland as James VI, and List of English monarchs and King of Ireland as James I. He ruled in Kingdom of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, when he was only one year old, succeeding his mother Mary I of Scotland....
used a badge of a Tudor rose dimidiated with a thistle and surmounted by a royal crown.

Contemporary uses

The Tudor rose is used as the plant badge of England, as Scotland

Scotland

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uses the thistle

Thistle

Thistle is the common name of a group of flowering plants characterised by leaf with sharp prickles on the margins, mostly in the plant family Asteraceae....
, Ireland

Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
uses the shamrock

Shamrock

The shamrock is a symbol of Republic of Ireland. It is a three-leafed old white clover. It is sometimes of the variety White clover but today usually Trifolium dubium ....
, and Wales

Wales

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uses the leek

Leek

The leek, Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum , also sometimes known as Allium porrum, is a vegetable which belongs, along with the onion and garlic, to the Alliaceae family....
. As such, it is seen on the dress uniforms of the Yeomen Warders

Yeomen Warders

"Beefeater" redirects here. For other uses, see Beefeater .The Yeomen Warders of Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress the Tower of London, popularly known as the Beefeaters, are ceremonial guardians of the Tower of London....
at the Tower of London

Tower of London

Her Majesty's Royal Palace and Fortress, more commonly known as the Tower of London , is a historic monument in central London, England, on the north bank of the River Thames....
, and of the Yeomen of the Guard

Yeomen of the Guard

The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard are a Sovereign's Bodyguard of the British Monarch. The oldest British military corps still in existence, it was created by Henry VII of England in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field....
. It features on the British Twenty Pence coin

British Twenty Pence coin

The United Kingdom decimal twenty pence coin – often pronounced "twenty pee" – was issued on 9 June 1982 to fill the obvious gap between the British coin Ten Pence and British coin Fifty Pence coins....
and the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom

Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom

The Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom is the official coat of arms of the British monarch, currently Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. These arms are used by the Queen in her official capacity as monarch, and are officially known as her Arms of Dominion....
. It also features, albeit subtly, on the Coat of arms of Canada

Coat of arms of Canada

The Royal Coat of Arms of Canada is, since 1921, the official coat of arms of the Monarchy of Canada, and thus also of Canada. It is closely modelled after the royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom with distinctive Canadian elements replacing or added to those derived from the British....
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It is also notably used (albeit, confusingly enough in a monochromatic form) as the symbol of the English Tourist Board. It is used as the name of a brand of fortified wine.

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Tudor rose

Origins

Historical uses

Contemporary uses

See also

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