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- Maredydd ap Tudur (d. 1406) was a Welsh soldier and nobleman from the Tudor family of Penmynydd and Owen Tudor's father. He supported the 1400 Welsh uprising of his first cousin Owain Glyndwr.
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Jul 3, 2023 · Maredydd ap Tudur (d. 1406) was a Welsh soldier and nobleman from the Tudor family of Penmynydd and Owen Tudor's father. He supported the 1400 Welsh uprising of his first cousin Owain Glyndwr [1]. Both his brothers Rhys ap Tudur (Sherif of Anglsea) and Gwilym ap Tudur rekindled the uprising in 1402 when they (and 16 other men) entered Conwy ...
Apr 8, 2020 · Tudur ap Goronwy (died 1367) was a Welsh nobleman and a member of the Tudor House of Penmynydd. His son Maredudd ap Tudur (d. 1406) was father of Owen Tudor. His other two sons, Rhys ap Tudur (d. 1409) and Gwilym ap Tudur (d. 1413) were important players in the uprising of Owain Glyndŵr, their first cousin.[4]
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Owen's father Maredudd ap Tudur (English:Meredith) had been (together with his two brothers Rhys and Gwilym) stalwarts of Owain Glyndwr's uprising of 1400. When that uprising ebbed away Maredudd lost most of his land to the English Crown. His saw his chance to better his position in society by moving to London and changing his son's name from Owain...
There is little doubt that Owen was of gentle birth. Queen Catherine, upon being denied permission by her son's regents to wed John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, allegedly said upon leaving court, "I shall marry a man so basely, yet gently born, that my lord regents may not object." (The objection to Somerset was that he was a second cousin of Henry ...
Owen Tudor became an early casualty of the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487) between the House of Lancaster and the House of York. On 2 February 1461, as a man of advanced years, Owen led the Lancastrian forces at the Battle of Mortimer's Cross against Edward, Earl of March. They were defeated. Owen was subsequently executed, beheaded at Hereford along...
(Royal Ancestry) He was beheaded by the Yorkists after the Battle of Mortimer's Cross at Hereford 4 Feb. 1461, and was buried in the chapel of the church of the Grey Friars, Hereford.
Owen descends from Rhys ap Gruffydd's (1132–1197) daughter, Gwenllian ferch Rhys. 1. See pedigree chart on Wikipedia: Owen Tudor Gwenllian ferch Rhys m. Ednyfed Fychan, Seneschal of the Kingdom of Gwynedd (d. 1246). Issue: Goronwy, Lord of Tref-gastell (d. 1268). Goronwy m. Morfydd ferch Meurig, daughter of Meurig of Gwent.Issue: Tudur Hen, Lord of...
Owen and Catherine of Valois. Issue: at least 6 childrenThomas Tudor (6 Nov 1429 – 1501 bur. Westminster Abbey). Monk at Monk at Westminster Abbey. Alias: Edward Bridgewater (as a monk).Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430 – 1 Nov 1456) m. Margaret Beaufort. Issue: Henry Tudor.Jasper Tudor, 1st Earl of Pembroke and 1st Duke of Bedford (1431 – 21/26 Dec 1495) m. Catherine Woodville 1485No issue.Owen Tudor (1432–1510). Monk at Westminster Abbey.Tacinda Tudor (b. 1433) m. Reginald Grey, Baron Grey of Wilton (1420/1421 – 22 Feb 1494)- Male
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Jul 25, 2020 · Meredydd ap Tudor, escheator of Anglesey in 1392, and like Gronw an officer of the household of the bishop of Bangor is said to have slain a man and fled to the wild country about Snowdon. He was the father of Owen ap Meredydd, commonly called Owen Tudor, a squire who appears at the court of the infant king Henry VI. By all accounts he was a ...
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Reduced by frequent sub-division, the estate of Bodowyr was by Tudor times among the smallest of those of surviving members of the clan in the commote of Menai, being rated for subsidy at only £2; but the shell of the house as it stood in 1846 showed it to have been a place of some consequence.
His Welsh name being Owen ap Meredydd, he was commonly called Owen Tudor. He was the founder of the Tudor dynasty. The five sovereigns of the Tudor dynasty are among the most well-known figures in Royal history. Owen was a descendant of the Welsh Prince Rhys ap Gruffudd.
Owen ap Meredydd, commonly called Owen Tudor, a squire who appears at the court of the infant King Henry VI, was born on or around 1400. By all accounts he was a goodly young man: the chroniclers dwell upon the beauty which attracted the Queen Mother. She gave the handsome squire a post in her household.
