Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (36 page)

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Authors: Alison Weir

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HENRY IV

He died on 20 March, 1413, in the Jerusalem Chamber in Westminster Abbey, of a disease resembling leprosy, and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral.

He was succeeded by his son Henry.

Henry V

F
ATHER
:
Henry IV
(

see here
).

M
OTHER
:
Mary de Bohun
(

see here
, under
Henry IV
).

S
IBLINGS
: (

see here
, under
Henry IV
).

HENRY V

He was born probably on 9 August or 16 September, 1387, or – less probably – in August, 1386, at Monmouth Castle. He was created Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornwall and Earl of Chester, and Prince of Aquitaine on 15 October, 1399, and invested with these honours the same day. He was made a Knight of the Garter in 1399. He was created Duke of Aquitaine on 23 October or 10 November, 1399, and Duke of
Lancaster on 10 November, 1399. He succeeded his father as King of England on 21 March, 1413, and was crowned on 9 April, 1413, in Westminster Abbey. He was designated heir to the throne of France on 21 May, 1420, but did not live to enjoy his inheritance.

Henry V married
, on 2 June, 1420, at Troyes Cathedral, France:

Katherine

She was the daughter of Charles VI, King of France, by Isabella, daughter of Stephen II, Duke of Ingolstadt-Bavaria. Her sister Isabella had been married to Richard II. Katherine was born on 27 October, 1401, at the Hôtel de St Pol, Paris. She was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 23/24 February, 1421. After the death of Henry V, she either secretly married, or formed a liaison with, a gentleman of her household, Owain ap Maredudd ap Tewdwr (Owen Tudor), son of Maredudd (Meredith) ap Tewdwr by his wife Margaret. This marriage, if it took place at all, was solemnised between 1425 and 1428. Owen Tudor was born in
c.
1400 at Plas Penmynydd, Wales, and he was executed on 3 February, 1461, by the Yorkists at Hereford. He was buried in Grey Friar’s Church, Hereford. His union with Katherine produced issue as follows, and details are given in full as they are relevant to the succession:

(a)	Owen or Thomas or Edward
He was born on 6 November, 1429, at the Palace of Westminster, and is perhaps to be identified with Edward Bridgewater, a monk at Westminster Abbey from 1468/9 to 1471/2. He died in 1502 at Westminster, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
(b)	Edmund ( see here , under Henry VII ).
(c)	Jaspar
He was born in c. 1431 at Hatfield, Herts. He was created Earl of Pembroke probably on 23 November, 1452, certainly before 30 January, 1453. He was made a Knight of the Garter before 23 April, 1459. He was attainted as a traitor by Act of Parliament on 4 November, 1461, and forfeited all his honours, but was styled Earl of Pembroke from October, 1470, until May, 1471, during the readeption of Henry VI. He was created Duke of Bedford on 27 October, 1485, and formally restored to all his honours on 12 December, 1485. He died on 21 or 26 December, 1495, and was buried in Keynsham Abbey, Somerset.
Jaspar had the following illegitimate issue:
By Mevanvy ( d . by 1485?), a Welshwoman:
1 Helen or Ellen; she married William Gardiner of London, and had issue.
Jaspar married, before 7 November, 1485:
Katherine
She was the daughter of Richard Wydville, 1st Earl Rivers, by Jacquetta of Luxembourg ( see here , under Henry IV), and sister to Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV. She was born before 1458. She married firstly Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1455?–executed 1483), in c. February, 1466, and had issue:
1 Edward, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (1478–executed 1521); he married Eleanor ( d .1530), daughter of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, and had issue.
2 Henry, Earl of Wiltshire (1479?–1523); he married firstly Muriel or Margaret, daughter of Edward Grey, Viscount de Lisle, and secondly Cecilia ( d .1529), daughter of William Bonville, Baron Harington.
3 Humphrey ( d . young).
4 Anne; she married first Sir Walter Herbert ( d .1507), and secondly George Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon (1488–1544), and had issue.
5 Elizabeth ( d .1532); she married Robert Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex ( d .1542). She was also the first recorded mistress of Henry VIII. After the death of Jaspar, Katherine married thirdly Sir Richard Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle, Hunts. (1468–1525). She died before 1513.
(d)	Daughter ( name not known )
Polydore Vergil, Henry VII’s official historian, says she became a nun, and there is no reason to doubt this, although no other source mentions her.
(e)	Margaret or Katherine
She was born in January, 1437, at the Abbey of St Saviour, Bermondsey, London, where she died shortly after her birth.