Tidir Engraving from the Beauchamp Tower of
London
"Robart Tidir" is the Welsh spelling of "Robert
Tudor." This engraving was found in the stairwell entrance to
Beachamp Tower where the Earl of Essex was executed in 1601. Essex
may have made the engraving to tell the world that he was, in fact,
of the Tudor lineage. Tower officials claim that no prisoner of this
name is apparently recorded, or known, to history or tradition. In
the first edition of "The History of King Henry the Seventh" by
Francis Bacon (1622) the name "Tidder" is introduced in place of
"Tudor." Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex, was the alleged second
son of Queen Elizabeth,Francis Bacon being her first born.
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