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Tudor</a></li><li><a href="#zgqy34j">A change in fortune</a></li><li><a href="#zg2c9j6">Key moments in Owen Tudor's life</a></li><li><a href="#z8v2xnb">Owen's Tudor legacy</a></li><li><a href="#zsctpv4">Securing a Tudor crown</a></li><li><a href="#z2pdjxs">Where next?</a></li></ol></header><section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-1 odd k-g-introduction"><span id="z38tpv4" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-introduction-media"><div class="k-g-int-i" data-pid="p02jq72b"><noscript><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1600xn/p02jq72b.jpg" alt=""></noscript></div></div><aside class="k-aside"><div class="k-g-gc"><div data-zedid="zgx987h" class="k-g-gc-item hero"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/416x234/p02jm41v.jpg" data-pid="p02jm41v" alt="" class="resp widescreen"></div><div class="about"><span class="type">Presented by</span><span class="name">Dr Anna Whitelock</span><span class="role">Historian</span></div></div><div data-zedid="zyjbr82" class="k-g-gc-item"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/144x144/p02jfwj1.jpg" data-pid="p02jfwj1" alt="" class="resp square"></div><div class="about"><span class="type">With thanks to the</span><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945/http://pembroke-castle.co.uk/">Pembroke Castle Trust<span class="k-g-sprite k-link-small">External</span></a></div></div></div></aside><div class="k-g-introduction-content"><div class="k-g-stp-inner"><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-1"><div></div></div><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">The origins of the Tudor dynasty</h2><aside class="k-aside"><div class="k-g-gc"><div data-zedid="zgx987h" class="k-g-gc-item hero"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/416x234/p02jm41v.jpg" data-pid="p02jm41v" alt="" class="resp widescreen"></div><div class="about"><span class="type">Presented by</span><span class="name">Dr Anna Whitelock</span><span class="role">Historian</span></div></div><div data-zedid="zyjbr82" class="k-g-gc-item"><div class="image"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/144x144/p02jfwj1.jpg" data-pid="p02jfwj1" alt="" class="resp square"></div><div class="about"><span class="type">With thanks to the</span><a class="name" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945/http://pembroke-castle.co.uk/">Pembroke Castle Trust<span class="k-g-sprite k-link-small">External</span></a></div></div></div></aside><section class="k-section"> <div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> The House of Tudor became one of the most successful royal dynasties in British history, with a direct line passing from Henry Tudor to his son Henry VIII and his three children Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Yet this powerful dynasty which provided England with five sovereigns had its roots firmly in Welsh soil at a place called Penmynydd on the island of Anglesey. The Tudurs, to give them their original Welsh spelling, would go on to take their place in history, thanks to their son, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tudur – or Owen Tudor as he later became known. </p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> But just how a commoner managed to marry into royalty and kick-start a dynasty beggars belief. It all began with an unlikely liaison between Catherine of Valois and a charismatic Welshman with a taste for adventure.</p></div> </section></div></div></section> <section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-2 even k-g-media"><div class="k-g-stp-limiter"><div class="k-g-stp-header"><div class="k-g-stp-header-inner"><span id="z9tgcdm" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-2"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="k-g-stp k-g-guide-stp-media"><div class="k-g-stp-inner"><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">Birth of the Tudors</h2><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p>It would take just two generations for Owen Tudor's grandson Henry VII to be crowned the first Tudor king of England but getting there was no mean feat for the Tudur family of north Wales.</p></div><div class="kg-media kg-media--highlight k-g-gs-v video" itemprop="video" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"><meta itemprop="name" content="The birth of the Tudors"><meta itemprop="description" content="Historian, Anna Whitelock looks at the rise of the Tudor dynasty and its Welsh roots."><meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p02jbzkj.jpg"><div class="emp" tabindex="0" data-pid="p02jq22m" data-poster-template="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/$recipe/p02jbzkj.jpg" data-version-pid="p02jq22r"><noscript><div class="emp-fallback no-javascript"><p>Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.</p></div></noscript></div><div class="kg-media__support"><p class="kg-media__support__text">Historian Anna Whitelock looks at the changing fortunes of the Tudur family of Anglesey and the birth of Henry VII at Pembroke Castle.</p></div><div class="kg-media__alternatives"><a class="kg-media__alternatives__option transcript" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945/http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/bam/live/content/zwrpsbk/transcript">Transcript (PDF 211 Kb)</a></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p></p></div></div></div></div></section> <section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-3 odd k-g-narrative"><div class="k-g-stp-limiter"><div class="k-g-stp-header"><div class="k-g-stp-header-inner"><span id="z2gq2hv" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-3"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="k-g-stp"><div class="k-g-stp-inner media"><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">The rise of Owen Tudor</h2><aside class="k-aside"><div class="kg-media kg-media--highlight k-g-gs-i" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"><meta itemprop="name" content="Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois"><meta itemprop="description" content="Portraits of Owen Tudor and his wife and Catherine of Valois. Sourced by Proto (Flickr)."><meta itemprop="contentUrl" content="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/608xn/p02hf64r.jpg"><img class="resp" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/608xn/p02hf64r.jpg" data-pid="p02hf64r" alt="Portraits of Owen Tudor and his wife and Catherine of Valois. Sourced by Proto (Flickr)."><div class="kg-media__support"><p class="kg-media__support__text--overlay credit">The Lost Gallery - Flickr</p><p class="kg-media__support__text caption">Portraits of Owen Tudor and his wife Catherine of Valois, queen of England.</p></div></div></aside><section class="k-section"><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Following the death of Henry V in 1422, Owen – by now a squire – was employed as Keeper of the Queen's Wardrobe. Legend has it that he accidentally fell onto the queen's lap during a drunken dance at court.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> The pair became lovers and secretly married in around 1429. The first of their four children, Edmund, was born a year later.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Favoured by his step-brother, King Henry VI, Edmund was made the Earl of Richmond.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> His younger brother Jasper became the Earl of Pembroke and crucially helped his young nephew Henry VII escape to France from Tenby during the Wars of the Roses.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><h3 class="k-type-sub-header">The rights of Englishmen</h3><p> Catherine and Owen chose to live away from court as their union was unpopular among the ruling classes.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Henry VI however continued to look after his step-father and in 1431 Owen was granted the 'rights of Englishmen' freeing him of the harsh penalties placed on his countrymen following the failed Welsh Wars of Independence. </p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> He was now legally allowed to marry an Englishwoman, own land and bear arms.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><h3 class="k-type-sub-header">The death of a queen</h3><p> In 1437 Catherine retired to Bermondsey Abbey and gave birth to a baby girl but became gravely ill and died soon after. </p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> With Catherine gone, news of Owen and Catherine's secret marriage reached the Duke of Gloucester and his allies. </p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Owen suddenly found himself vulnerable to outside forces bent on destroying him for his unlawful marriage and illegitimate children by the late queen.</p></div></section><div class="k-g-gs-l"></div></div></div></div></section> <section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-4 even k-g-media"><div class="k-g-stp-limiter"><div class="k-g-stp-header"><div class="k-g-stp-header-inner"><span id="zgqy34j" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-4"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="k-g-stp k-g-guide-stp-media"><div class="k-g-stp-inner"><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">A change in fortune</h2><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p>Having being pardoned and bailed by his step-son, King Henry VI, Owen Tudor's fortunes began to improve when he was moved into the royal household.</p></div><div class="kg-media kg-media--highlight k-g-gs-v video" itemprop="video" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/VideoObject"><meta itemprop="name" content="The changing fortunes of Owen Tudor"><meta itemprop="description" content="Historian, Anna Whitelock looks at the changing fortunes of Owen Tudor and Henry VII."><meta itemprop="thumbnailUrl" content="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/320x180/p02jc1pw.jpg"><div class="emp" tabindex="0" data-pid="p02jq1w1" data-poster-template="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/$recipe/p02jc1pw.jpg" data-version-pid="p02jq1w3"><noscript><div class="emp-fallback no-javascript"><p>Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play.</p></div></noscript></div><div class="kg-media__support"><p class="kg-media__support__text">Historian Anna Whitelock looks at the changing fortunes of Owen Tudor following the death of his wife, Catherine of Valois, former queen of England.</p></div><div class="kg-media__alternatives"><a class="kg-media__alternatives__option transcript" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945/http://a.files.bbci.co.uk/bam/live/content/zq4syrd/transcript">Transcript (PDF 291 Kb)</a></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p>Records show that by 1459 Owain ap Maredudd was increasingly referred to as Owen Tudor – an anglicised version of his name – incorporating his grandfather's surname. Why this happened is a mystery but the great Tudor dynasty could quite easily have been known as the (Maredudds) Merediths.</p></div></div></div></div></section> <section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-5 odd"><div class="k-g-stp-limiter"><div class="k-g-stp-header"><div class="k-g-stp-header-inner"><span id="zg2c9j6" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-5"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="k-g-stp k-g-activity-step"><div class="k-g-stp-inner"><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">Key moments in Owen Tudor's life</h2><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p>Click or tap on the place names below to learn more about the locations that played a pivotal role in Owen Tudor's life and the birth of the Tudor dynasty.</p></div><div class="k-g-activity k-g-legacy-activity" id="k-g-activity-zxqgcdm" data-activity-baseurl="//downloads.bbc.co.uk/kandl/activities/zxqgcdm" data-activity-module="kandlguides-activity/zxqgcdm/main"><div class="k-g-activity-container"></div><noscript><p class="no-script">JavaScript is required to view this activity.</p></noscript><div class="k-g-activity-cutsmustard"><p>This content uses functionality that is not supported by your current browser. 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However, in reality, the Tudors kept their Welsh roots at arms length. After all, being Welsh wasn't popular at court. </p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> Henry VII was only a quarter Welsh and his claim to the throne was due to his English mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort. In reality the succession of Tudor monarchs did very little for their countrymen.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><h3 class="k-type-sub-header">The Acts of Union</h3><p> The Acts of Union 1536 and 1543 passed by Henry VIII’s parliament had a profound effect on Welsh culture, forbidding anyone in authority to speak Welsh and making English the ‘natural mother tongue’.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> While this helped the Welsh gentry who became equal to their English counterparts, the vast majority of the population were Welsh-speaking and the acts had a detrimental effect on the Welsh language and culture.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><h3 class="k-type-sub-header">The Welsh Bible</h3><p> Another Tudor monarch, Elizabeth I, introduced the Welsh Bible in 1588. The Welsh public may have perceived this as a gesture of kindness from the Tudor Queen to the people of her ancestral country.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p> In reality, the Protestant Elizabeth had a political motive behind the gift. Wales was historically a Catholic country and a Welsh Bible was a good way of spreading Protestantism in what was a strategically vulnerable area.</p></div><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><h3 class="k-type-sub-header">Celtic connection</h3><p> The Tudors may well have chosen to forget their Celtic roots for political gain but without the Tudurs of Penmynnyd, the great Tudor dynasty and some of England's most recognisable rulers would have ceased to exist.</p></div></section><div class="k-g-gs-l"></div></div></div></div></section> <style> @media only screen and (max-width: 599px) { .penultimate-image .k-g-stp-header, .penultimate-image.boxed:before { background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/608x342/p02jbpcw.jpg); } } @media only screen and (min-width: 600px) and (max-width: 1007px) { .penultimate-image { background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1120x630/p02jbpcw.jpg); } } @media only screen and (min-width: 1008px) { .penultimate-image:before { background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1600xn/p02jbpcw.jpg); } } </style><section class="k-g-stp-container step-number-7 odd penultimate-step penultimate-image boxed"><div class="k-g-stp-limiter"><div class="k-g-stp-header"><div class="k-g-stp-header-inner"><span id="zsctpv4" class="k-g-stp-anchor" tabindex="-1"></span><div class="k-g-gs-sn step-number-7"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="k-g-stp k-g-guide-stp-question"><div class="k-g-stp-inner"><div class="k-g-gs-sq"> <div class="k-g-gs-sq-header-container"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-header"><h2 class="k-g-gs-t k-type-header">Securing a Tudor crown</h2><div class="k-g-gs-tb k-type-body-article"><p>Which of these key moments do you think were the most significant in securing a Tudor king on the English throne?</p></div></div></div> <div class="k-g-gs-sq-options options-count-4"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option-container" id="zsctpv41"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option option-image"><div class="heading"><p>The death of potential heirs</p></div><div class="answer"><p><a href="?stp_zsctpv4=1#zsctpv4" class="k-link-button question">Choose<span></span></a></p></div><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x288/p02hs9lv.jpg);"></div><div class="description"><p>The Lancastrian heir Edward died at the Battle of Tewkesbury and the Yorkist heirs Edward and Richard were held in the Tower of London by Richard III.</p></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-reveal reveal-image"><div class="context"><p>You selected</p></div><div class="heading"><p>The death of potential heirs</p></div><div class="image"><img class="resp square" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x80/p02hs92s.jpg" data-pid="p02hs92s" alt=""></div><div class="attribution"></div><div class="response"><p>It's believed that Richard III had both princes murdered. With all the potential heirs gone, Henry gained more support for his fairly weak claim to the throne.</p></div></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option-container" id="zsctpv42"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option option-image"><div class="heading"><p>A dowager queen’s marriage</p></div><div class="answer"><p><a href="?stp_zsctpv4=2#zsctpv4" class="k-link-button question">Choose<span></span></a></p></div><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x288/p02hsbdv.jpg);"></div><div class="description"><p>In 1428 parliament passed a bill forbidding Catherine to remarry without the king’s consent or risk her husband’s lands and possessions being seized.</p></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-reveal reveal-image"><div class="context"><p>You selected</p></div><div class="heading"><p>A dowager queen’s marriage</p></div><div class="image"><img class="resp square" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x80/p02hsbdv.jpg" data-pid="p02hsbdv" alt=""></div><div class="attribution"></div><div class="response"><p>Had this law not been passed, Catherine may well have married Edmund Beaufort but instead chose Owen Tudor, a ‘poor commoner’ with no political agenda.</p></div></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option-container" id="zsctpv43"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option option-image"><div class="heading"><p>Changing allegiances</p></div><div class="answer"><p><a href="?stp_zsctpv4=3#zsctpv4" class="k-link-button question">Choose<span></span></a></p></div><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x288/p02htxfj.jpg);"></div><div class="description"><p>Key people bolstered Henry Tudor's army by switching sides, including Rhys ap Thomas who should've ambushed him in Wales.</p></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-reveal reveal-image"><div class="context"><p>You selected</p></div><div class="heading"><p>Changing allegiances</p></div><div class="image"><img class="resp square" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x80/p02htxhs.jpg" data-pid="p02htxhs" alt=""></div><div class="attribution"></div><div class="response"><p>Both Rhys ap Thomas a principal lieutenant, and the Stanley family, betrayed Richard III and fought for Henry at the Battle of Bosworth.</p></div></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option-container" id="zsctpv44"><div class="k-g-gs-sq-option option-image"><div class="heading"><p>Henry Tudor escapes</p></div><div class="answer"><p><a href="?stp_zsctpv4=4#zsctpv4" class="k-link-button question">Choose<span></span></a></p></div><div class="image" style="background-image: url(https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/512x288/p02htz4l.jpg);"></div><div class="description"><p>After the Yorkist victory at Tewkesbury, the Wars of the Roses looked to be lost for the Lancastrians so Jasper took his nephew Henry to safety in France.</p></div></div><div class="k-g-gs-sq-reveal reveal-image"><div class="context"><p>You selected</p></div><div class="heading"><p>Henry Tudor escapes</p></div><div class="image"><img class="resp square" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150214085945im_/http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/80x80/p02htzbh.jpg" data-pid="p02htzbh" alt=""></div><div class="attribution"></div><div class="response"><p>Fleeing to France saved Henry’s life. 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