Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sir Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, [a] c. 1400 – 2 February 1461) was a Welsh courtier and the second husband of Queen Catherine of Valois (1401–1437), widow of King Henry V of England. He was the grandfather of Henry VII, founder of the Tudor dynasty.
Catherine of Valois was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabeau of Bavaria. [3] She was born at the Hôtel Saint-Pol (a royal palace in Paris) on 27 October 1401. Early on, there had been a discussion of marrying her to the Prince of Wales , the son of Henry IV of England , but the king died before negotiations ...
In this capacity, between 1437 and 1440, [1] she took care of Edmund and Jasper Tudor, the two eldest sons of Catherine of Valois (widowed queen of King Henry V of England) by her second husband Owen Tudor. [2] Katherine persuaded King Henry VI to take an interest in the boys, who were his half-brothers.
Catherine d'Alençon (bef.1396 – 22 June 1462 [1] in Paris) was the Duchess consort of Bavaria as the second spouse of Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria. She was a younger daughter of Peter II of Alençon and his wife Marie Chamaillart, Viscountess of Beaumont-au-Maine.
The son of Robert II, Hugh in the meantime swore allegiance to the titular empress Catherine of Courtenay, wife of Charles of Valois and on March 24, 1303 he became affianced to their daughter Catherine of Valois. Necessary precondition for this marriage alliance to take place was the young man to promise the recovery of his prospective wife ...
Isabella was born on 9 November 1389 in Paris, France, as the third child and second daughter of Charles VI, King of France, and his wife, Isabeau of Bavaria. [1] Her eldest sibling had already died by the time of her birth, and the second-eldest died the following year; however, she had nine younger siblings, seven of whom survived infancy.
Joan of Valois (French: Jeanne de Valois; 1304–1363) was the daughter of Charles, Count of Valois [1] and his second wife Catherine I of Courtenay, titular empress of Constantinople. [2] She was half-sister to King Philip VI of France. In around 1320, she married Robert III of Artois, later Count of Beaumont-le-Roger and seigneur of Conches ...
In 1107 Robert became Earl of Leicester. [11] By de Beaumont she had three sons (the eldest of whom were twins) and five or six daughters as follows: [12] Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (born 1104, twin), married and left issue. [12] Waleran de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Worcester, Count of Meulan (born 1104, twin), married and left issue ...