![]() ![]() Catherine may have carried no English blood, and therefore no right to the English throne, herself but she gave her Tudor children a brother who was the English King, from her previous marriage to the victor of Agincourt. ![]() At some point an English scribe wrote his name as ‘Owen Tudor’, not understanding the Welsh patronymic. (Though some scholars dispute whether they were actually married). But she and Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudur fell in love and married in secret. Rules were passed to effectively stop her remarrying – she had to have her son’s consent… and this could only be given when he was an adult. The Protector of her son (who became king as a baby), and his councillors, worried about another man exercising power in the land, through marrying the king’s mother, instead of them. This French princess was the mother of King Henry VI but was widowed very young. by Edward Hargrave, after Unknown artist, coloured line engraving, 1842ĭaughter of King Charles VI of France and his wife Isabelle of Bavaria Probably because people could argue about the right of his bloodline but couldn’t argue that he won the battle.Īlso known as Princesse Catherine, Queen Catherine (consort of King Henry V) 1420-1422, Katherine, Catherine of France, Dowager Queen of England 1422-1437, Catherine Tudor unofficially from either 1429 or 1431/1432 to1437. Though after the Battle of Bosworth Henry VII then claimed the throne by right of conquest rather than bloodline. It was the Lancastrian blood of his mother that allowed her son Henry to gather men and make a challenge for the throne. This Katherine is therefore important to the Tudors as it is through her son, John Beaufort 1 st Earl of Somerset, that her great grand-daughter Margaret Beaufort inherited her royal blood and the Lancastrian claim on the throne. But after her death, in 1407, he issued amended Letters Patent that specifically barred his Beaufort siblings from the throne by adding the words ‘ excepta dignitate regali ’ to the Letters Patent. Their half brother, who eventually became king Henry IV, had been very kind to Katherine even calling her the ‘king’s mother’. The Pope legitimised these children on the marriage of their parents in 1396 and Richard II had issued Letters Patent to that end the following year, in 1397, which became an Act of Parliament. These children were given the surname ‘Beaufort’, after one of the prince’s estates in France, and they were retrospectively legitimised when their parents finally married in 1396. Her first husband, Hugh Swynford died in 1371 and she had four children with John of Gaunt between 13. Katherine had a long affair with the prince known as John of Gaunt, third son of King Edward III, that started whilst she was governess to his daughters by his first wife. Katherine Swynfordĭaughter of Payne Roët of Guienne though her marriage record to John of Gaunt calls her the daughter of “Guyon King of Armes” These two Catherines are the reasons why an obscure Welsh noble family ended up on the English throne for over a hundred years and why their descendants, through a daughter who married into the Stuart line and whose descendants then married into German royalty, still sit on the English throne.Īlso known as Katherine Roet 1350-1366, Katherine Swynford 1366-1396, Duchess of Lancaster 1396-1399, Dowager Duchess of Lancaster 1399-1403. But I wish to start with two earlier Catherines who are crucial as to why there was a Tudor period in England. The Tudor period is usually specified as 1485-1603, which covers the rule of the Tudor monarchs. Both forms of this name were used in this period and sometimes it is possible to find both forms used for the same person when different historians write about them. Following on from my piece on the various Marys that were notable figures in the Tudor period, I now intend to do a quick article on another name that crops up a lot during this period: Katherine or Catherine. ![]()
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