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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 ...
Francis was born 11 years after his parents' wedding. The long delay in producing an heir may have been due to his father's repudiation of his mother in favour of his mistress Diane de Poitiers, [1] but this repudiation was mitigated by Diane's insistence that Henry spend his nights with Catherine. [1]
The elder Tudor had been second husband to Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V; their sons (Jasper and Edmund Tudor), as Henry VI's half-brothers, had been made earls, and the family was a major power in South Wales.
Henry VI (6 December 1421 – 21 May 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471, [1] and disputed King of France from 1422 to 1453. The only child of Henry V, he succeeded to the English throne upon his father's death at the age of eight months; he succeeded to the French throne on the death of his maternal grandfather, Charles VI, shortly afterwards.
Catherine of Valois: Charles VI of France Isabeau of Bavaria: 27 October 1401 2 June 1420 23 February 1421 31 August 1422 Husband's death: 3 January 1437 Westminster Abbey: Henry V: Margaret of Anjou: René of Anjou Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine: 23 March 1430 24 May 1444 (by proxy) 22 April 1445 30 May 1445 11 April 1471 Husband's deposition ...
This made Catherine a direct descendant of Louis IX of France, and of the House of Capet, albeit through a female line. Also this made her a 7th cousin, once removed of her husband Henry and a 6th cousin, 3 times removed of Henri of Navarre, her son-in-law.
In 1421 Catherine even travelled to England, as lady-in-waiting to the wife of the King Henry, Catherine of Valois, who was Catherine's niece. Catherine even assisted in the birth of their child, Henry VI of England. [2] Catherine's second husband, Louis VII, Duke of Bavaria, died on 1 May 1447 at Burghausen.