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Catherine de Valois 1401-37
Queen of England, wife of Henry V

Born in Paris, she was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI (Charles, the Foolish) of France, and after a stormy courtship, when England and France went to war over England's dowry demands, she married Henry V of England at Troyes (1420). In 1421 she gave birth to a son, the future Henry VI of England. After her husband's death (1422), she secretly married (c.1431-32) Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, despite parliamentary opposition. Their eldest son, Edmund, Earl of Richmond, was the father of Henry VII, the first of the Tudor kings of England.