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Tudor, Owen, d. 1461, founder of the Tudor Tudor, royal family that ruled England from 1485 to 1603. Its founder was Owen Tudor, of a Welsh family of great antiquity, who was a squire at the court of Henry V and who married that king's widow, Catherine of Valois.
..... Click the link for more information. dynasty. He belonged to an ancient Welsh family. He was a squire at the court of Henry V, and, probably in 1429, he married Henry's widow, Catherine of Valois Catherine of Valois (văl`wä, Fr.
..... Click the link for more information. , by whom he had five children. Twice imprisoned by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester Gloucester, Humphrey, duke of, 1391–1447, English nobleman; youngest son of Henry IV and Mary de Bohun. He was well educated and had a great interest in humanist scholarship.
..... Click the link for more information. , during Henry VI's minority, he finally escaped to Wales, although Henry later made provision for him in England. Owen, a faithful Lancastrian in the Wars of the Roses, was beheaded by the Yorkists after their victory at Mortimer's Cross.