Tudor

Tudor, SIR OWEN, ancestor of an English dynasty, was godson of Owen Glendower. He fought at Agincourt under Henry V., whose widow he subsequently married. On her death he was imprisoned in Newgate, but escaped and fought for Henry VI. against the Yorkists, Having been captured at the battle of Mortimer's Cross, in 1461, he was beheaded. His son Edmund, Earl of Richmond, married Margaret, a descendant of John of Gaunt by Katherine Swynford. Their son became Henry VII. of England.