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Mar 17, 2024 · Katherine of Berain (1534-1591) was the daughter of Tudor ap Robert Fychan of Berain (a descendant, in direct male line, of Marchweithian, Lord of Isaled, the 11th royal tribe of Wales), who married Jane Velville (b. 1510).
- Wales
- Liewenny, Denbighshire, Wales
- 1545
- August 27, 1591 (45-46)Denbighshire, Wales
Date: 1568. Media: oil on panel. Size: 97.2 x 68.6 cm. Acquired: 1957; Purchase. Accession Number: NMW A 19. Katheryn of Berain clutches a prayer-book and solemnly caresses the contours of a human skull. The skull often occurs in sixteenth-century portraits; t he contrast between flesh and bone reminds us of the frailty of life.
Oct 10, 2011 · The life of Katheryn of Berain is laden with intrigue. This wealthy heiress from Denbighshire had Tudor blood in her veins, and was a distant relative to Queen Elizabeth I. The story of her and her many husbands has become one of the chief romances of north Wales. She had six children and over thirty grandchildren who all went on to form some ...
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Katheryn of Berain (Welsh: Catrin o Ferain) (1534 – 27 August 1591), sometimes called Mam Cymru ("mother of Wales") was born Katheryn ferch Tudor, the daughter of Tudor ap Robert Vychan and Jane Velville. Her maternal grandfather was Sir Roland de Velville (1474 - 25 June 1535), who is thought to have been the illegitimate son of King Henry VII of ...
By marrying into 4 gentry families and having heirs by 3 of her 4 husbands, her descendants took to nicknaming her "Mother of Wales" well after her death. On the other hand, since three of Katheryn's four husbands predeceased her, a legend later grew up that she had poisoned them. She was also supposed to be the ward of Elizabeth I.
Enid Roberts, Katheryn of Berain [Mam Cymru(c.1540–1591), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 , accessed 28 June 2016Dictionary of Welsh Biography. KATHERYN of BERAIN- Female
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Katherine Tudor born 1534 in Berain, Denbighshire, , Wales genealogy record - Ancestry®.
Katherine Salusbury, Of Berain, Of Berain was born in 1524, to Robert Vaughan Ap Tudor and Jane Ap Tudor (born de Velville). Katherine had 2 siblings: Mary Todd (born Tudor) and one other sibling . Katherine married John Salusbury .
Katheryn of Berain, 'The Mother of Wales' (1534-1591) CRONENBURGH, Adriaen van (c.1525-c.1604) In this Tudor portrait, Katheryn of Berain clutches a small box – perhaps a casket or a prayer-book - and solemnly caresses a human skull. It was painted in 1568 in the Netherlands.
