Roland de Velville

(1474-1535)

Illegitimate child of Henry VII

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Sir Roland de Velville (1471/4 - 25 June 1535) was a Breton-born English soldier and government official who is theorised as the illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by "a Breton lady whose name is not known", or as a favoured member of the court of Henry VII and later recipient of beneficences, brought home to England with 28-year-old Henry after his exile in Brittany, an adolescent "of unknown parentage", and so a possible or likely illegitimate son, with formal historical opinion undecided.

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Born	Roland de Velville 1474 (per Beauclerk-Dewar et al., granted Letters of Denization, 1512)
Died	25 June 1535 (aged 61) Beaumaris Castle, Wales
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