Tudor, Owen
Tudor, Owen, d. 1461, founder of the Tudor dynasty. He belonged to an ancient Welsh family. He was a squire at the court of Henry V, and, probably in 1429, he married Henry's widow, Catherine of Valois , by whom he had five children. Twice imprisoned by Humphrey, duke of Gloucester , during Henry VI's minority, he finally escaped to Wales, although Henry later made provision for him in England. Owen, a faithful Lancastrian in the Wars of the Roses (see Roses, Wars of the ), was beheaded by the Yorkists after their victory at Mortimer's Cross.
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