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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]
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.
Ednyfed's son Goronwy gave rise to the Tudors of Penmynydd in Anglesey, from whom Owen Tudor and later Henry VII were descended. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] After Llywelyn's death in 1282, the family made its peace with the English crown, though a descendant, Goronwy ap Tudur Hen joined the revolt of Madog ap Llywelyn in 1294–5, acting as Madog's Seneschal ...
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 ...
Born to Sir Owen Tudor and the dowager queen Catherine of Valois, Edmund was the half-brother of Henry VI of England. He was raised for several years by Katherine de la Pole , and Henry took an interest in Edmund's upbringing, granting him a title and lands once he came of age.
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 ]
It was his father, Owen Tudor (Welsh: Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Tudur ap Goronwy ap Ednyfed Fychan), who abandoned the Welsh patronymic naming practice and adopted a fixed surname. When he did, he did not choose, as was generally the custom, his father's name, Maredudd, but chose that of his grandfather, Tudur ap Goronwy , instead.