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Owen Tudor - Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty (Hardcover)
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'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing
madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope
to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel ... but because
they do not know the appointed time, they are often deceived and
their labour is in vain.' (Vita Edwardi Secundi) The appointed
time, it turned out, was 1485. For generations, the ancestors of
Welshman Owen Tudor had fought Romans, Irish Picts, Vikings,
Saxons, Mercians and Normans. His uncles had been executed in the
Glyndwr Welsh War of Independence. Owen fought for Henry V in
France and entered the service of Henry's queen, Catherine of
Valois. Soon after the king's death he secretly married her, the
mother of the eight-month-old Henry VI. Owen and Catherine would
have two boys together. Henry VI would go on to ennoble them as
Edmund Earl of Richmond, and Jasper Earl of Pembroke, but upon
Catherine's death Owen was imprisoned. Escaping twice, Owen was
thrown into the beginnings of the Wars of the Roses with two of his
sons. It would be Edmund's son, Henry Tudor, who would take the
English throne as Henry VII. When Jasper led the Lancastrian forces
at Mortimer's Cross in 1461, the ageing Owen led a wing of the
defeated army, was captured and executed. Without his earlier
secret marriage for love, there would have been no Tudor dynasty.
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