212. Catherine²⁰ of VALOIS (CHARLES VI²¹ of VALOIS, King of France) was born in Hotel de St. Pol, Paris 27 OCT 1401. Catherine died 3 JAN 1437 in Bermondsey Abbey, at 35 years of age. Her body was interred in Westminster Abbey.

She married twice. She married HENRY V PLANTAGENET of MONMOUTH in Troyes, 2 JUN 1420. HENRY was born in Monmouth 9 AUG 1387. HENRY⁽¹²⁶⁾ was the son of HENRY IV BOLINGBROKE Earl of DERBY and Mary deBOHUN. HENRY died 31 AUG 1422 in Bois de Vincennes, at 35 years of age.⁽¹²⁷⁾ His body was interred in Westminster Abbey. She married Owain TUDOR about 1431.⁽¹²⁸⁾ RESEARCH NOTES: Married in secrecy (it wasn't too healthy to wed the widow of King Henry V when the War of the Roses was just about to fire up). Owain was the son of Maredudd apTUDUR.

Owain died 2 FEB 1461 in Mortimer's Cross, near Hereford.⁽¹²⁹⁾

Catherine of VALOIS and HENRY V PLANTAGENET of MONMOUTH had the following child:

213 i. HENRY VI¹⁹ PLANTAGENET⁽¹³⁰⁾ was born in Windsor Castle 6 DEC 1421. HENRY died 21 MAY 1471 in Tower of London, at 49 years of age.⁽¹³¹⁾ RESEARCH NOTES: Killed in the Tower as an act of state to try to forestall further Lancastrian rebellions in his name. His body was interred in Chertsey Abbey.⁽¹³²⁾ RESEARCH NOTES: Later transferred to St. George's Chapel, Windsor He married Margaret of ANJOU in Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire, 22 APR 1445.

Margaret was born in Pont-a-Mousson, Lorraine 23 MAR 1429. Margaret⁽¹³³⁾ was the daughter of RENE Titular King of Naples and Sicily and Isabelle. Margaret died 25 AUG 1482 in Chateau de Dampiere near Saumu, at 53 years of age. Her body was interred in Angers Cathedral. King of England 1422-1461, King of France. Deposed 4 MAR 1461; restored 3 OCT 1470; deposed (again) 11 APR 1471.

Henry VI's restoration is also called "The Readeption of Henry VI," and came after: 1) the Lancastrian forces were defeated near Towton in a blizzard on 29 MAR 1461; 2) Henry wandered as a fugitive between Harlech and Berwick-on-Tweed; 3) Margaret finally gave up and took the young Prince Edward to France (1463); 4) Henry was caught in July 1465 near Clitheroe, Lancashire and imprisoned in rude conditions in the Tower of London; and 5) Warwick was driven from England and, at the urging of the French King Louis XI, made cause with his erstwhile enemy Queen Margaret to defeat King Edward IV.

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