Catherine of Valois was born in Paris on October 27, 1401. Was the youngest daughter of King Charles VI of France and Isabella of Bavaria. She was educated in the convent of Poissy. She married at nineteen to Henry V of England, who found very beautiful and asked his wife's dowry nothing less than the crown of France for himself and the descendants of his marriage. The French King, victim of his attacks of madness, it folds to the will of his son, who would have with the support of Queen Isabel, which came to declare that his son the Dauphin Charles was illegitimate and no rights of succession, which the English king had a clear path to hold France, based on the rights of his wife .
In February 1421 she was crowned Queen of England at Westminster Abbey, and in December of that year, giving birth to the future Henry VI, immediately proclaimed heir to the thrones of England and France . Legend has it that when Queen became pregnant, her husband sent for the relic of the Holy Foreskin for the birth of a child, and as it were, the English sovereign would not return after birth. As the situation in France was troubled and insecure, Henry V Gallo decides to return home early next year, leaving his wife and son in England. Would never see them anymore. He died of dysentery in August, sixteen days before his thirty-five years old. He was succeeded by his son, a baby of eight months, who had to meet at a tender person English and French crowns. The government was taken over by a regency council composed of his uncle, the Duke of Bedford and the Duke of Gloucester, with the supervision of Parliament.
Catherine was converted at twenty years at an attractive young widow queen. As fate would fall passionately in love with a handsome, charismatic Welsh noble, called Owen Tudor, who was his employee wardrobe, with whom he began a risky relationship. The queen was an outsider with few friends. Many suspected that secretly supported the claim of her brother on the French crown. As a boy, Henry VI lost the throne of France thanks to the courageous intervention of Joan of Arc in favor of his uncle Charles VII. At one point, the queen was expelled from the court and separated from her child.
In 1428 Parliament passed a decree which stated that if the Queen returned to marry without the king's approval, the husband would lose their lands and possessions, but the couple's children would be members of the royal family and not suffer punishment. He also added that the king could only give its consent to a marriage of his mother when he had come of age. Historians are divided over whether Catherine and Owen were married at the time of the ban or secretly married the following year, in 1429. The chroniclers of the time, however, had no hesitation in declaring that the queen lived in Wales "as husband." From this union six children were born.
The love story of Catherine and Owen is bittersweet. Their life together ended in 1436 when Owen was jailed on charges of treason, probably at the behest of the Duke of Gloucester. Separated from their children, Catherine ended his days at the Abbey of Bermondsey, in London, the place where he died on January 3, 1437, thirty-five years of age to give birth to a girl who barely had time to be baptized before he died. She was buried in Westminster Abbey. The two older children of Catherine and Owen, Edmund and Jasper, were handed over to the care of Catherine de la Pole, Abbess of Barking.
Edmundo Tudor, Earl of Richmond
Henry VI was declared of age in the same year his mother died and took the reins government. Ordered the release of Owen Tudor and rose to his half-brothers, Edmundo and Jasper Tudor, to counts. When Edmundo was twenty years, the king provided his marriage to Margaret Beaufort , an heiress of twelve. Edmund died before his young wife gave birth to the age of thirteen, his son Enrique . was this child who later usurped the English throne and began a new dynasty: the Tudor .
Owen Tudor was subsequently involved in the War of the Roses between the House of Lancaster and the House of York, leading the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross, were defeated. He was executed on the scaffold in company with other prisoners. And he was waiting for a pardon for his relationship with the royal family. Apparently convinced that he was not going to die until his head was separated from the trunk by the executioner. Presumably said "used to be head in the lap of Queen Catherine, now in the executioner's basket ".
sources:
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalina_de_Valois_ (1401-1437)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Valois http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Tudor
http://unusualhistoricals.blogspot.com/2010/02/love-affairs-katherine-de-valois-owen.html
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