Editing Owen Tudor (section)

== Catherine of Valois ==
[[Henry V of England]] died on 31 August 1422, leaving his wife, Queen [[Catherine of Valois|Catherine]], widowed.{{sfn|Griffiths|1998|p=11}} The dowager queen initially lived with her infant son, King [[Henry VI of England|Henry VI]], before moving to [[Wallingford Castle]] early in his reign. 

Catherine was rumoured to have had an affair with [[Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset]]. The rumours, though based on questionable evidence, prompted a response from her son's regents, who objected to Somerset as a possible husband as he was a second cousin of Henry V through the legitimised Beaufort line sired by John of Gaunt. A parliamentary statute regulating the remarriage of widowed queens was passed by the conciliary government. She subsequently married Owen Tudor<ref name=ONDB/> and gave birth to at least two sons: Edmund and Jasper (see below).<ref>Cheetham, ''Life & Times of Richard III'' (1992): frontispiece.</ref><ref>Nicolas & Tyrrell, ''Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483'' (1823): 123.</ref>

The historian [[G. L. Harriss]] suggested that the affair with Beaufort resulted in the birth of [[Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond|Edmund Tudor]]. Harriss wrote, "By its very nature the evidence for Edmund Tudor's parentage is less than conclusive, but such facts, as can be assembled, permit an agreeable possibility that Edmund 'Tudor' and [[Lady Margaret Beaufort|Margaret Beaufort]] were first cousins and that the royal house of 'Tudor' sprang in fact from Beauforts on both sides."<ref name="ONDBEd">{{harvnb|Richmond |2008|p=1}}</ref>