Queen Catherine VALOIS

1401 - 1437  (35 years)

• Name	Catherine VALOIS
  Prefix	Queen
  Born	27 Oct 1401	Hotel de St Pol, Paris, France
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	Queen of England
  Died	3 Jan 1437	Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, England
  Person ID	I10657	Main
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2023

  
  

  Family	Owen TUDOR,   b. Abt 1397, Penmynydd, Anglesey, Wales ,   d. 4 Feb 1461, Hertfordshire, England  (Age ~ 64 years)
  Children	1. Earl Edmund TUDOR,   b. Abt 1430, Hadham, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 3 Nov 1456, Carmarthen Castle, Wales  (Age ~ 26 years)
  Last Modified	23 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F5107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  m1 King Henry V of England on 2 Jun 1420, at Cathedral of Saint-Jean, Troyes, Aube, France —— Henry V went to war with France, and even after the great English victory at Agincourt, plans for the marriage continued. Catherine was said to be very attractive and when Henry finally met her at Meulan, he became enamoured. In May 1420, a peace treaty was made between England and France, and Charles acknowledged Henry of England as his heir. Catherine and Henry were married at the Parish Church of St John or at Troyes Cathedral on 2 June 1420. Catherine went to England with her new husband and was crowned queen in Westminster Abbey on 23 February 1421. In June 1421, Henry returned to France to continue his military campaigns. By this time, Catherine was several months pregnant and gave birth to Prince Henry on 6 December 1421 at Windsor. The boy and his father would never see each other. During the siege of Meaux, Henry V contracted a fatal illness (dysentery) and died on 31 August 1422, just before his 35th birthday. Catherine was not quite 21 and was left a queen dowager. Charles VI died a couple of months after Henry V, making the young Henry VI king of England and English-occupied northern France. Catherine doted on her son during his early childhood. Catherine died 3 January 1437, shortly after childbirth at Bermondsey Abbey in London, and was buried on 9 February in the Lady Chapel in Westminster Abbey, the first royal burial in the chapel.