biography
| name: |
Catherine of Valois
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pronunciation:
[valwah]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1401–37)
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| biography:
| Queen consort of England, the wife of Henry V, and the youngest daughter of Charles VI (‘the Foolish’) of France. After a stormy courtship, when England and France went to war over Henry's dowry demands, she married Henry at Troyes in 1420. In 1421 she gave birth to a son, the future Henry VI. After Henry's death in France in 1422, she secretly married Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, despite parliamentary opposition; their eldest son, Edmund, Earl of Richmond, was the father of Henry VII. |
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