Owen Tudor: Founding Father of the Tudor Dynasty,Terry Breverton

`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.\nHence, they frequently rebel ... but because they do not know the appointed time, they are often deceived and their labour is in vain.' (Vita Edwardi Secundi)The appointed time, it turned out, was 1485.\nFor generations, the ancestors of Welshman Owen Tudor had fought Romans, Irish Picts, Vikings, Saxons, Mercians and Normans.\nHis uncles had been executed in the Glyndwr Welsh War of Independence.\nOwen fought for Henry V in France and entered the service of Henry's queen, Catherine of Valois.\nSoon after the king's death he secretly married her, the mother of the eight-month-old Henry VI.\nOwen and Catherine would have two boys together. Henry 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.\nEscaping twice, Owen was thrown into the beginningsn