Catherine of Valois in New DNB
Catherine of Valois in New DNB
Carol
Re: Catherine of Valois in New DNB
Thanks, Carol -- I was able to copy the content (including links) and save it as a Word 2010 (.docx) file.
One sentence jumped out at me, namely the one referring to her marriage to "the young Welsh squire, Owen Tudor":
"Nevertheless, in spite of the council's precautions, some time between 1428 and 1432 Catherine did contract a morganatic marriage, though this only became known after her death."
Marriages that nobody knows about until after the principals are dead - now where have we heard that before? Ah, yes, the marriage of Edward IV and Eleanor Talbot, which the traditionalists like to deny could have ever occurred because of course it would have been unheard of and totally unlikely.
That reminds me: The traditionalists also deny that Eleanor was the daughter of the first Earl of Shrewsbury, and thus someone who would have been considered by most observers at the time a more suitable match for a king than Elizabeth Woodville.
I wonder: Would Warwick the Kingmaker have stuck by Edward had Ned gone to him with Nell Talbot on his arm? She wouldn't have been the foreign princess Warwick had in mind for Ned, but she would have been a match that would have likely brought all of the powerful Talbots firmly into the Yorkist camp, her late father already being an ally of the late Duke of York.
Tamara
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The New Dictionary of National Biography's Life of the Day is Catherine of Valois. If you don't subscribe (or can't read the entries free because you don't live in Britain), you may want to copy the entry to your personal files (which falls under Fair Use and does not violate copyright law). Here's the URL: http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/3.html
Carol
