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Apr 30, 2024 · Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England and was the mother of King Henry VI.
1 day ago · The House of Tudor ( / ˈtjuːdər /) [1] was an English and Welsh dynasty that held the throne of England from 1485 to 1603. [2] . They descended from the Tudors of Penmynydd, a Welsh noble family, and Catherine of Valois.
- 1485; 538 years ago
- Henry VII (first Tudor king)
Apr 22, 2024 · Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day, massacre of French Huguenots (Protestants) in Paris on August 24/25, 1572, plotted by Catherine de’ Medici and carried out by Roman Catholic nobles and other citizens.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 22, 2024 · Catherine de’ Medici commissioned the Valois Tapestries to depict the magnificent festivals at the court of France. The eight tapestries are based on designs by Antoine Caron and woven in Brussels by two unknown masters in 1576.
22 hours ago · On 2 February 1461, he decisively defeated the Lancastrian armies at Mortimer's Cross, and the captured Owen Tudor, husband to Henry V's widow Catherine of Valois, was executed by his troops. As dawn broke across the field, a meteorological phenomenon known as parhelion occurred, giving the appearance of a trio of suns rising.
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May 4, 2024 · Henry was subsequently married to Charles VI's daughter, Catherine of Valois. The treaty ratified the unprecedented formation of a union between the kingdoms of England and France, in the person of Henry, upon the death of the ailing Charles.
Apr 30, 2024 · Owen had married Henry V’s Lancastrian widow, Catherine of Valois; and their eldest son, Edmund ( c. 1430–56), was created Earl of Richmond by Henry VI and married Margaret Beaufort, the Lady Margaret, who, as great-granddaughter of Edward III’s son John of Gaunt, held a distant claim to the throne, as a Lancastrian.
