Catherine of Valois, queen of England (d. 1438)

The youngest daughter of king Charles VI of France, and Isabella of Bavaria, she married king Henry V of England at Troyes on 2 June 1420, thus becoming his consort, their son, the future Henry VI, being born in December 1421. On the death of her husband, at which she was not present, she remained in England and probably entered a morganatic marriage with a Welsh squire, Owen Tudor, by 1432. She died at Bermondsey Abbey, near London, in January 1437, and was buried at Westminster Abbey.

Bibliographic References:

Michael Jones, ‘Catherine (1401–1437)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4890.

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