Catherine de Valois. Henry's widow Catherine de Valois (1401-1437) secretly married Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, in about 1430, and one of her three sons, Edmund, Earl of Richmond (c.1430-1456) was the ...

Catherine of Valois was a French princess – born in 1401 – the daughter of King Charles VI of France. Ironically, although her country was at loggerheads with England in a conflict known as ...