Editing Owen Tudor (section)

== Death ==
Owen Tudor was an early casualty of the [[Wars of the Roses]] (1455–1487) between the [[House of Lancaster]] and the [[House of York]]. He joined his son Jasper's army as Lancastrian relations and partisans in Wales in January 1461, a force that was defeated at the [[Battle of Mortimer's Cross]] by [[Edward IV of England|Edward of York]]. On 2 February, Owen Tudor was captured and beheaded at Hereford. His head was placed on the market cross there, "and a madde woman kembyd hys here and wysche a way the blode of hys face"<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century|url = https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle01greggoog|page = [https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle01greggoog/page/n273 211]|quote = and a madde woman kembyd hys here and wysche a way the blode of hys face.|publisher = Camden society|date = 1876|first = James|last = Gairdner}}</ref> ("and a mad woman combed his hair and washed away the blood of his face") and set 100 candles about him. 

Owen Tudor had expected to be imprisoned, rather than executed.<ref name=Ross>{{harvnb|Ross|1974|p=31}}</ref> Moments before his execution, he realised that he was to die and murmured "that hede shalle ly on the stocke that wass wonte to ly on Quene Katheryns lappe"<ref>{{Cite book|title = The Historical Collections of a Citizen of London in the Fifteenth Century|url = https://archive.org/details/historicalcolle01greggoog|quote = that hede shalle ly on the stocke that was wonte to ly on Quene Kateryns lappe.|publisher = Camden society|date = 1876|first = James|last = Gairdner}}</ref> ("that head shall lie on the stock that was wont to lie on Queen Catherine's lap"). His body was buried in a chapel on the north side of the Greyfriars' Church in Hereford. He had no memorial until his illegitimate son, David, paid for a tomb before the friary was dissolved.<ref name="ONDB"/>