Editing Tenby (section)

===Wars of the Roses===
In 1452,<ref>Thomas, R. S. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27796 "Tudor, Jasper <nowiki>[</nowiki>Jasper of Hatfield<nowiki>]</nowiki>, duke of Bedford"], ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', 23 September 2004. Accessed 2 February 2019.</ref> [[Henry VI of England|King Henry VI]] gave the Marcher Lordship (and associated Earldom) to [[Jasper Tudor]], his half-brother and uncle to the future [[Henry VII of England|Henry Tudor]]. In 1457, Tudor agreed to divide the costs of refurbishing and improving Tenby's defences with the town's merchants because of its economic importance to this part of Wales.  Improvements included widening the dry ditch along the outside of the town walls to {{convert|30|ft}}. Raising the wall's height to include a second tier of higher arrow slits behind a new parapet walk and adding additional [[Turret (architecture)|turret]] towers to the ends of the walls where they abutted the cliff edges, and the dry ditch outside walls was widened to {{convert|30|ft|m|0|abbr=off}}. 

Traders sailed along the coast to [[Bristol]] and Ireland and further afield to France, Spain and Portugal. Exports included wool, skins, canvas, coal, iron and oil.<ref name=Penmar>{{cite web|url=http://www.penmar-tenby.co.uk/tenby.html|title=History of Tenby|publisher=penmar-tenby.co.uk|access-date=25 May 2025|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402145501/http://www.penmar-tenby.co.uk/tenby.html|archive-date=2 April 2012}}</ref> It was during this period that the town was so busy and important, it was considered to be a national port. During the [[Wars of the Roses]] Henry Tudor, the future [[Henry VII of England|King Henry VII]] of England, sheltered at Tenby before sailing into exile in 1471.