The Children of Adam and Eve

Catherine of Valois (1401-37), queen consort of England (1420-22), wife of
Henry V, king of England, and daughter of Charles VI, king of France, born
in Paris. When she was 12 years old, Henry V renewed the negotiations
begun by his father for a marriage with Catherine. Henry demanded a large
dowry and the French regions of Aquitaine and Normandy. The proposition
was rejected, and in 1415 Henry invaded France and forced compliance with
his terms. When he married Catherine in Troyes, France, in June 1420, he
received the provinces claimed, the regency of France during the life of
Charles, and the right to succeed to the French throne after Charles's
Death. In February 1421 Catherine was crowned at Westminster Abbey, and in
December she bore a son, later King Henry VI. After the Death of Henry V
in 1422, Catherine's union with the Welsh squire Owen Tudor produced four
Children. One of her sons, Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond (1430?-56),
married Margaret Beaufort; their son became Henry VII, the first Tudor
king of England.