{"product_id":"9781445694375","title":"Owen Tudor : Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Breverton, Terry, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/07\/2019,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 304 pages, 40 Illustrations, unspecified,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Amberley Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Amberley Publishing,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: British \u0026amp; Irish history, \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781445694375\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'The Welsh habit of revolt against the English is an old-standing madness ... from the sayings of the prophet Merlin they still hope to recover their land. Hence, they frequently rebel... \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebut because they do not know the appointed time, they are often deceived and their labour is in vain.' (Vita Edwardi Secundi)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe appointed time, it turned out, was 1485. For generations, the ancestors of Welshman Owen Tudor had fought Romans, Irish Picts, Vikings, Saxons, Mercians and Normans. His uncles had been executed in the Glyndwr Welsh War of Independence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOwen fought for Henry V in France and entered the service of Henry's queen, Catherine of Valois. Soon after the king's death he secretly married her, the mother of the eight-month-old Henry VI. Owen and Catherine would have two boys together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHenry VI would go on to ennoble them as Edmund Earl of Richmond, and Jasper Earl of Pembroke, but upon Catherine's death Owen was imprisoned. Escaping twice, Owen was thrown into the beginnings of the Wars of the Roses with his two sons. It would be Edmund's son, Henry Tudor, who would take the English throne as Henry VII.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Jasper led the Lancastrian forces at Mortimer's Cross in 1461, the ageing Owen led a wing of the defeated army, was captured and executed. Without his earlier secret marriage for love, there would have been no Tudor dynasty.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35022271512729,"sku":"9781445694375","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781445694375.jpg?v=1594321435","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781445694375","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}