Owen Tudor

Also known as: Owen Teuther · Family: Wales · Role: gentleman · First appears: Henry VI 26

Life events

1437 · Catherine of Valois secretly married Owen Tudor after Henry V's death.(Henry VI 26)
- With: Catherine of Valois
- “This woman, after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband, being yoong and lustie, following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell, and regarding more priuate affection than princelike honour, tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person, indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie & mind, called Owen Teuther”
c. 1461 · Owen Tudor was captured and beheaded after the battle.(Henry VI 64 · 📍 Hereford)
- “but sir Owen Teuther father to the said earle of Penbroke (which Owen had married king Henries mother, as yée haue heard before) with Dauid Floid, Morgan ap Reuther, and diuerse other were taken, and beheaded at Hereford.”

married with Catherine of Valois “This woman, after the death of king Henrie the fift hir husband, being yoong and lustie, following more hir owne wanton appetite than fréendlie counsell, and regarding more priuate affection than princelike honour, tooke to husband priuilie a galant gentleman and a right beautifull person, indued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodie & mind, called Owen Teuther”
child: Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond “By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes, Edmund, Iasper, and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time”
child: Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke “By this Owen she brought foorth thrée goodlie sonnes, Edmund, Iasper, and another that was a monke in Westminster and liued a small time”
sworn: Humphrey Duke of Gloucester “the same author also reporteth that he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme”
enemies with Humphrey Duke of Gloucester “he was commanded to Newgate by the duke of Glocester then lord protector of the realme”

child: Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke “sir Owen Teuther father to the said earle of Penbroke”

Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.