Owen Tudor - Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Y cofiant Cymraeg cyntaf i dad llinach y Tuduriaid, sef Owen Tudur, gŵr heb fod o dras brenhinol a briododd Catherine o Valois, gweddw Harri V. Ei ŵyr oedd Harri'r VII.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The first-ever biography of the founding father of the Tudor dynasty, a Welsh commoner who secretly married Catherine of Valois, widow of Henry V. His grandson was Henry VII.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Terry Breverton is the author of Jasper Tudor: Dynasty Maker , The Tudor Cookbook & Henry VII all published by Amberley. Terry has presented documentaries on the Discovery and History channels and is also the author of Breverton's Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea and Breverton's Complete Herbal, published by Quercus. He lives near Llanybydder in the Teifi Valley.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

'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 his two 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.