Posted on 02/02/2023 7:24:41 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
A Welsh courtier with the boldness to bed the queen lost his head this date in 1461 … but his career in usurpation was just getting started.
The House of Tudor that would come to rule England counted Owen its sire; the four-year-old grandson he left at his death grew up to become the first Tudor monarch, Henry VII.
Owen produced the root of this august line with Dowager Queen Catherine of Valois, the French princess Henry V had extracted as part of the price of peace after Agincourt.
That union was supposed to join the two great realms, but Henry V unexpectedly kicked the bucket in 1422, leaving an infant son who was not only unable to hold the French throne … he was too unstable to hold the English throne, either....
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He was reputed to be a very handsome man. Queen Catherine couldn’t keep her hands off of him.
The “hole” monarchy/ruling lineage is full of incest throughout europe.
He also was father to Margret Tudor, who married James IV, King of Scots, and gave birth to the child who became James V, King of Scots.
She also was great-grandmother to James VI, King of Scots, who also became James I, King of England and Ireland when Henry VIII's daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, died without issue.
So Owen was progenitor to two different dynasties on the English throne plus one on the Scottish throne.
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn’t have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I’m her eighth old man, I’m Henry
Henry the eighth I am
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