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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 ...
Name Father Birth Marriage Became Countess Ceased to be Countess Death Spouse Marie, Lady of Sully: Louis, Lord of Sully 4 February 1378 1381 1382 husband's death - Charles, Count of Montpensier: Catherine of Valois: Charles V of France 4 February 1378 5 August 1386 October/November 1388 Jean, Count of Montpensier: Anne de Bourbon-La Marche
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 ...
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]
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.
Besides holding in appanage the counties of Valois, Alençon and Perche, Charles became in 1290 the Count of Anjou and of Maine by his first marriage with Margaret of Anjou, the eldest daughter of King Charles II of Naples, titular King of Sicily; by a second marriage that he contracted with the heiress of Emperor Baldwin II of Constantinople, last Latin emperor of Constantinople, he also had ...
Jacquetta was the eldest daughter of Peter I of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, Conversano and Brienne, and his wife Margaret of Baux (Margherita del Balzo of Andria). [1] Her father Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol, was also the hereditary Count of Brienne from 1397 until his death in 1433.