Catherine of Valois

Catherine of Valois
Drawing from the Beauchamp Pageant, c. 1483–1494
Queen consort of England
Tenure	2 June 1420 – 31 August 1422
Coronation	23 February 1421
Born	27 October 1401 Hôtel Saint-Pol, France
Died	3 January 1437 (aged 35) London, England
Burial	Westminster Abbey, London
Spouse	Henry V of England ​ ​ (m. 1420; died 1422)​ Owen Tudor (m. c. 1428)
Issue more...	Henry VI of England Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford
House	Valois
Father	Charles VI of France
Mother	Isabeau of Bavaria

Catherine of Valois or Catherine of France (27 October 1401 – 3 January 1437) was Queen of England from 1420 until 1422. A daughter of King Charles VI of France, she married King Henry V of England^[1] and was the mother of King Henry VI.^[a] Catherine's marriage was part of a plan to eventually place Henry V on the throne of France, and perhaps end what is now known as the Hundred Years' War. But, although her son Henry VI was later crowned in Paris, the war continued.

After Henry V's death, Catherine's surprise marriage to Sir Owen Tudor helped lead to the rise of the House of Tudor's fortunes and to her Tudor grandson's eventual elevation to the throne as King Henry VII of England.^[2]

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