Catherine Of FRANCE

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• Crowned: 24 Feb 1421
• Death: 03 Jan 1437

Catherine married Henry V King Of ENGLAND on 02 Jun 1420 in Church of St. John, Troyes, Trinity Sunday. Henry (son of Henry IV King Of ENGLAND and Mary DE BOHUN) was born on 09 Aug 1387 in Monmouth, England; died on 31 Aug 1422 in Bois De Vincennes, France; was buried in Chapel of the Confessor, Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Catherine married Owen TUDOR after 1422. Owen was born in 1400; died in 1461. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Henry Of Windsor

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He succeeded his father on 1 Sep 1422, and was crowned King of England on 6 Nov. 1429. He was deposed by Edward, Duke of York, on 4 Mar 1461, but was restored by Richard Neville 'the Kingmaker', Earl of Warwick, on 3 Oct 1470. He was again deposed by the Yorkist victory at Barnet on 14 Apr 1471.

Henry VI ascended the thrones of England and France in 1422. During his long reign, his mind failed him more than once and he had to submit the kingdom to the rule of a Protector, Richard, Duke of York. This led to civil war and his throne was taken away from him by the Protector's son, Edward IV, in 1461, given back briefly in 1470, and again taken away in 1471. Weeks later Henry was murdered in the Tower of London.

In 1422, Henry was kin of a French people who had lost faith in their leaders and themselves. Their pride was restored by Joan of arc, a young peasant girl from Domremy in eastern France. In 1429 Joan claimed to have had a vision from the Virgin Mary telling her to drive the English out of France, and she began a campaign that was to see the English expelled from all but Calais by 1453. In 1431 the English captured and burned Joan at the stake as a witch and heretic in Rouen.

The Wars of the Roses can be seen quite simply as the military expression of an on-going family quarrel between two branches of the royal house of Plantagenet, the houses of Lancaster and York. the wars broke out in 1455 as a result of Yorkist exasperation with the weak and inefficient government of Henry VI, and lasted, with lengthy intervals, for 30 years.

Gentle, kind and extremely generous, Henry was a simple man, incapable of deceit or craftiness. Throughout his life, Henry was deeply religious, a trait that manifested itself in his great enthusiasm for education and building.

Henry married Margaret Of ANJOU on 23 Apr 1445 in Titchfield, co. Hants. Margaret (daughter of King of Naples Rene I Of NAPLES and Isabella Of LORRAINE) was born on 23 Mar 1429; died on 25 Aug 1482 in Chatea de Dampierre. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Earl of Richmond

Edmund married Margaret BEAUFORT in 1455. Margaret (daughter of John BEAUFORT and Margaret BEAUCHAMP) was born between 31 May 1441 and 1443 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England; died between 29 Jun and 05 Jul 1509 in Westminster Palace; was buried in Westminster Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]