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House of Tudor The House of Tudor was a royal house of largely Welsh and English origin that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd and Catherine of France. Tudor monarchs ruled the Kingdom of England and it ...

, English royal house of Welsh origins **

Tudor period The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603 in History of England, England and Wales and includes the Elizabethan period during the reign of Elizabeth I until 1603. The Tudor period coincides with the dynasty of the House of Tudor in Englan ...

, a historical era in England coinciding with the rule of the Tudor dynasty Tudor may also refer to:

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Tudor architecture The Tudor architectural style is the final development of Medieval architecture in England and Wales, during the Tudor period (1485–1603) and even beyond, and also the tentative introduction of Renaissance architecture to Britain. It fo ...

, the final development of medieval architecture during the Tudor period (1485–1603) **

Tudor Revival architecture Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...

, or Mock Tudor, later emulation of Tudor architecture * Tudor House (disambiguation)

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Tudor (name) 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, th ...

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Montres Tudor SA Montres Tudor SA, or simply Tudor, is a Swiss watchmaker based in Geneva, Switzerland. Registered in 1926 by Hans Wilsdorf, founder of Rolex, the brand remains a sister company to Rolex; both companies are owned by the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation. Tu ...

, a Swiss watchmaker owned by Rolex **

United SportsCar Championship The IMSA SportsCar Championship, currently known as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship under sponsorship, is a sports car racing series based in the United States and Canada and organized by the International Motor Sports Association (IMS ...

, sponsored by the Tudor watch brand in 2014 * , a British submarine * Tudor, a fictional city, based on

Elizabeth, New Jersey Elizabeth is a city and the county seat of Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.New J ...

, seen in the video game

Grand Theft Auto IV ''Grand Theft Auto IV'' is a 2008 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the sixth main entry in the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series, following 2004's '' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'', and the ...

Tudor, California Tudor is an unincorporated community in Sutter County, California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across ...

, unincorporated community, United States *

Tudor, Mombasa Tudor is a subdivision of Mombasa, Kenya. Geography The area is located to the north of Mombasa Island, bordered by Jomo Kenyatta Avenue to the south-west and Tudor Creek to the north-east. Technical University of Mombasa. ormerly known as Mom ...

, Kenya * ''

The Tudors ''The Tudors'' is a historical fiction television series set primarily in 16th-century England, created and written by Michael Hirst and produced for the American premium cable television channel Showtime. The series was a collaboration among ...

'', a TV series *

Tudor domain In molecular biology, a Tudor domain is a conserved protein structural domain originally identified in the Tudor protein encoded in Drosophila. The Tudor gene was found in a Drosophila screen for maternal factors that regulate embryonic development ...

, in molecular biology *

Tudor rose The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic badge, heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of Lancaster and the House of York. The Tudor ...

, the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England *

Avro Tudor The Avro Type 688 Tudor was a British piston-engined airliner based on Avro's four-engine Lincoln bomber, itself a descendant of the famous Lancaster heavy bomber, and was Britain's first pressurised airliner. Customers saw the aircraft as ...

, a type of aeroplane * Tudor, a name for

two-door sedan A sedan or saloon (British English) is a passenger car in a three-box configuration with separate compartments for an engine, passengers, and cargo. The first recorded use of the word "sedan" in reference to an automobile body occurred in ...

body used by some manufacturers *

Tudor batteries Tudor is a lead-acid battery brand founded by Henri Tudor in 1890 and is now owned by Exide Technologies. History The start Henri Tudor from Rosport created in 1890 what will become later the Tudor batteries brand: the ''Société anonyme Fran ...

, a brand of batteries *

Tudor Crisps Tudor Crisps was a brand of potato crisps produced in Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Originally an independent firm, established in Newcastle in 1947, Tudor later moved to Peterlee to a new factory, which still exists but was closed in 20 ...

, a brand of potato crisps

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