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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.
Tomb effigy of Goronwy ap Tudur, d. 1382, at St Gredifael, Penmynydd. The sons of Sir Tudur, eldest brother Goronwy ap Tudur, Forester of Snowdon and Constable of Beaumaris Castle, [1] and his younger brothers Rhys ap Tudur and Gwilym ap Tudur, were among the personal retinue of Richard II of England. [4]
This is the family tree of the kings of the respective Welsh medieval kingdoms of Gwynedd, Deheubarth and Powys, and some of their more prominent relatives and heirs as the direct male line descendants of Cunedda Wledig of Gwynedd (401 – 1283), and Gwrtheyrn of Powys (c. 5th century – 1160), then also the separate Welsh kingdoms and petty kingdoms, and then eventually Powys Fadog until the ...
A second Tudur ap Goronwy was knighted by King Edward III of England; [5] [6] His name was passed down two further generations to Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur, who anglicised it to become Owen Tudor. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Owen was the grandfather of Henry Tudor, who became King Henry VII of England and founded the royal House of Tudor .
Among Tudur's cousins, who fought with him during the Glyndŵr rebellion, were Gwilym ap Tudur and Rhys ap Tudur, who famously seized Conwy Castle, and Maredudd ap Tudur, the father of Sir Owen Tudor, of the royal House of Tudor. Having lost the war but being spared, Maredudd's son, Sir Owen, fled Wales to establish himself in England, and ...
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (c. 1430 – 3 November 1456), also known as Edmund of Hadham, was the father of King Henry VII of England and a member of the Tudor family of Penmynydd. Born to Sir Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois, Edmund was the half-brother of Henry VI of England.
Maredudd was one of five sons of Tudur ap Goronwy and Marged ferch Tomos (a descendant of Llywelyn Fawr); alongside Ednyfed ap Tudor, Rhys ap Tudur, Goronwy ap Tudor and Gwilym ap Tudur. [1] Tudur had served with the forces of King Edward III of England during the campaigns in France in 1337, assuming the rank of a knight in the process.
Tudur ap Goronwy (c. 1310 - c. 1367) was a Welsh landowner, soldier and administrator of the Tudors of Penmynydd family from the island of Anglesey. Origins [ edit ]