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Nov 2, 2019 · Published November 2, 2019. Updated September 15, 2022. After a miserable childhood, Catherine of Valois married King Henry V of England and secured her place in history — but she lived in controversy after his untimely death. National Portrait Gallery/Wikimedia Commons A portrait miniature of a medieval woman, most likely Catherine of Valois ...
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 [1] and was the mother of King Henry VI. [a] Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and ...
Catherine of Valois (born October 27, 1401, Paris, France—died January 3, 1437, Bermondsey Abbey, London, England) was a French princess, the wife of King Henry V of England, mother of King Henry VI, and grandmother of the first Tudor monarch of England, Henry VII. Catherine was the daughter of King Charles VI of France and Isabella of ...
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son Henry VI. Henry V (born September 16?, 1387, Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales—died August 31, 1422, Bois de Vincennes, France) was the king of England (1413–22) of the house of Lancaster, son of Henry IV. As victor of the Battle of Agincourt (1415, in the Hundred Years’ War with France), he made England one of the strongest kingdoms in ...
Oct 11, 2019 · His son, Henry V, proposed marriage to Catherine — on the condition of 2 million crowns and the return of Normandy and Aquitaine. King Charles VI could not agree to the dowry: He had only 80,000 ...
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Catherine de Valois. Henry's widow Catherine de Valois (1401-1437) married Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, and one of her three sons, Edmund, Earl of Richmond was the father of the future Henry VII. Her funeral took place on 10th February 1437. Solemn vespers for the dead were sung on the eve of the funeral.
Feb 19, 2024 · The body of Catherine de Valois (1401 – 1437), wife of England’s famous warrior king Henry V, was subject to one of the strangest and most perplexing afterlives of all royals. Daughter of Charles VI of France, Catherine was expected to play her part in a strategic alliance through marriage, as were all royal daughters.
