As has been pointed out, Parliament, 0 long back as 1436, showed tse, {as the English people's representative highly concerned with marriages of the Royal House. The widowed Queen Mother—Katharine of Valois, Henry V's "la plus belle Katharine clu monde, mon tres cher et devil déesse," fas Shakespeare records,—fell in love with Owen Tudor, private soldier and a member of her, January 5, 1937. Tate husband's bodyguard. "Widowed afore he was twenty, Katharine fell violently in love with the handsome Welshman and although his claim to be descended from Prince Theodore of Wales never deceived her, she was Secretly married to him "fourteen, Years after her husband's death in 1422. The Duke of Gloucester, then! Protector of England in the minority of King Henry VI, hurriedly induced Parliament 10 pass a bill prescribing dire penalties for anyone "who should dare to marry the Queen Mother without the consent of the King and his" Council."
The Protector was shutting his eyes to the fact that the marriage had already taken place. Katharine was sent to Bermondsey Abbey, and Tudor with those who at the ceremony, wap committed to Newgate. Soon afterwards the Queen Mother died, in xiving birth to a daughter who lived only a few weeks, Owen Tudor escaped from prison, and, of the five children whom Katharine bore him, the eldest Edmund Tudor became Earl of Richmond in 1482 and the husband of Lady, Margaret Beaufort. Their son," by virtue of Margaret's descent from John of Gaunt, eventually ascended the throne as Henry VII. Although 'Owen Tudor's claim to descent from Prince Theodore was not accepted, Welsh genealogists declare that. his forbear was Ednyfed Vychan of 'Tregannedd in Anglesey, steward to Llewellyn, prince of North Wales Ednyfed's' pedigree is said to have been traced back to Marehudd ap Cynan, according to Lewys Dwnn, and beyond that to Brutus the sreat-Brandson of Aeneas. The actual time] fand place of the secret marriage of Owen Tudor to Katharine cannot be ascertained, but Edmund was declared legitimate birth on receiving. his patent-as Earl of Richmond.
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