for centuries.

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day three | a Tudor event or topic related to the family or family members that you want to see more of in popular media

We view the start of the prominence of the Tudor family of popular imagination as the marriage of Catherine of Valois, Queen Dowager of England and Princess of France, mother to a very young Henry VI, King of England to her supposed keeper of her household or wardrobe, the Welsh Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur commonly known as Owen Tudor. Folklore tells us two tales that started their courtship at Windsor. One being that Owen was dancing and then fell into Catherine's lap; the second being that Catherine caught Owen bathing naked. Their marriage prompted a trend of noble women marrying for love and below their station. Their marriage is said to have produced six children, however, only two Edmund and Jasper are supported by the sources, with a further disputed two living to adulthood. Catherine died nine years into their marriage. After the death of his wife, Owen was treated kindly by his stepson the Lancastrian King Henry VI and his children acknowledged, granted peerages and welcomed at court as the Kings brothers. During the height of the Wars of the Roses Owen was a senior casualty and was executed by the future Edward IV's forces, moments before his death Owen was said to have said "that head shall lie on the stock that was wont to lie on Queen Catherine's lap".

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