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2 unusual facts about Owen Tudor


Owain ap Maredudd

Owen Tudor (Owain ap Maredudd ap Tewdwr ap Goronwy; died 1461), founder of England's Tudor Dynasty

Rosemary Anne Sisson

A previously thought lost Theatre 625 production from 1966 of Sisson's stage play The Queen and the Welshman (1958), concerning the affair of Henry V's widow Catherine with Sir Owen Tudor, was found in 2010 to have been deposited with the Library of Congress.


Ednyfed Fychan

He was a descendant (9th in descent) of Marchudd ap Cynan, Lord of Rhos, Lord Protector of Rhodri Mawr, King of Gwynedd and an ancestor of Owen Tudor and thereby of the Tudor dynasty.

Howard R. Hughes, Sr.

His wife and mother-in-law (Grissim) were descendants of Owen Tudor, second husband of Catherine of Valois, Dowager Queen of England.


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