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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 ...
Catherine did not bear Henry the sons he was desperate for; her first child, a daughter, was stillborn, and her second child, a son named Henry, Duke of Cornwall, died 52 days after birth. A further set of stillborn children followed, until a surviving daughter, Mary , was born in 1516.
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 ...
Elizabeth married William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey soon after the death of her first husband in 1118. [17] William had sought a royal bride in 1093, but failed in his attempt to wed Matilda of Scotland (also known as Edith), who later married King Henry I. [ 18 ] The historian James Planché claimed in 1874 that she was seduced by or fell ...
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]
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.
Here in early October she gave birth to Lady Margaret Douglas, the future Countess of Lennox and mother of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, cousin and second husband to Mary, Queen of Scots, and father of the future James VI. [53] While still in the north of England, Queen Margaret learned of the death of her younger son, Alexander.