Tudor was the son of Welsh courtier Owen Tudor () and Katherine of Valois, widowed Queen Consort of the Lancastrian King Henry V. Edmund Tudor and his siblings were either illegitimate, or the product of a secret marriage, and owed their fortunes to the good will of their legitimate half-brother King Henry VI.

** Owen Tudor, Welsh courtier ( d. 1461 )

* February 2 – Battle of Mortimer's Cross: Yorkist troops led by Edward, Duke of York defeat Lancastrians under Owen Tudor and his son Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke in Wales.

* February 2 – Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty ( executed )

Henry's half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper, the sons of his widowed mother's relationship with Owen Tudor, were later given earldoms.

She was the daughter of King Charles VI of France, wife of Henry V of Monmouth, King of England, mother of Henry VI, King of England and King of France, and through her secret marriage with Owen Tudor, the grandmother of King Henry VII of England.

Despite all of this, Catherine entered into an amorous relationship with Owen ap Maredudd ap Tudor of Wales.

It is unclear whether Catherine and Owen Tudor actually married.

From the relationship of Owen Tudor and Queen Catherine descended Henry VII of England and the Tudor Dynasty.

Tudor historians asserted that Owen and Catherine had been married, for their lawful marriage was a vital link in the argument for the legitimacy of the Tudor dynasty.

Owen Tudor was arrested on unspecified charges shortly after her death, but later released.

After the Battle of Mortimer's Cross in 1461, during the Wars of the Roses, the defeated Lancastrian leader Owen Tudor ( grandfather of the future Henry VII of England ) was taken to Hereford by Sir Roger Vaughan and executed in High Town.

* Fred Darling – Captain Cuttle ( 1922 ), Manna ( 1925 ), Coronach ( 1926 ), Cameronian ( 1931 ), Bois Roussel ( 1938 ), Pont l ' Eveque ( 1940 ), Owen Tudor ( 1941 )

Edmund was the eldest son of the king's mother, Dowager Queen Catherine, by her liaison with Owen Tudor.

Jasper was the second son of Owen Tudor and the former Queen Catherine of Valois, widow of King Henry V. Hence he was a half-brother to King Henry VI, who, on attaining his majority, made Jasper Earl of Pembroke ( sometime in 1452 or 1453 ).

Through his father, Owen Tudor, he was a direct descendant of Ednyfed Fychan, Llywelyn the Great's renowned Chancellor ; this added greatly to his status in Wales.

There seemed to be a third son, Jasper's younger brother referred to as either Edward, Thomas or most likely Owen Tudor.

Owen Tudor was released from prison, most likely thanks to his stepson Henry VI who, after providing for his stepfather, also provided for his two half-brothers who had become very dear to him.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

Owain is perhaps best remembered outside Wales as the mysterious Welshman of ' Owen Glendower ' in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 who claims to be able to " call spirits from the vasty deep ," and proves later on that he can, at least, summon unearthly music.

Richard Owen argued for the latter hypothesis in the 19th century, based on fossils found in 1877 in New South Wales.

* Owen Badger ( 1871 – 1939 ), Wales national rugby player

Owen was sent to Newgate prison, making his way to Wales.

In addition, writers born outside Wales, who have both lived in as well as written about Wales, are often included, such as John Cowper Powys ( 1872 – 1963 ), who settled in Wales in 1935 and wrote two major novels, Owen Glendower ( 1941 ) and Porius ( 1949 ), that have Welsh subject matter.

In 1405, the town was burned by the French allies of Owen Glendower, although in its early history Haverfordwest suffered less than most towns in Wales from such depredations.

A local campaign to save the shop was initiated, including a petition initiated by Owen John Thomas, Assembly Member for South Wales Central, and supported by members of the Welsh Assembly, the Manic Street Preachers and Columbia Records.

He defended against Johnny Owen of Wales in Los Angeles.

Television Wales and West opened transmission at 4: 45pm on 14 January 1958 with a live, 15-minute opening ceremony by station chairman Lord Derby, Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards and Alfred Francis.

Hawarden High School is a high school which dates back to 1606 and was attended not only by Michael Owen, but also Gary Speed, the former manager of the Wales national football team.

He sought to prevent Lancastrian forces from Wales, led by Owen Tudor and his son Jasper from joining up with the main body of Lancastrian forces.

James Stephens ( 1821 – 1889 ), a stonemason who was a supporter of the Chartists and later an influential Australian trade unionist, was born in the town, as was Sir Herbert Isambard Owen ( 1857 – 1927 ), a nephew of Isambard Kingdom Brunel who became an academic and a leading figure in the formation of the University of Wales.

Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971.

Antiquarian researches into the Celtic culture and history of Great Britain and Ireland gathered pace from the late 17th century, with people like Owen Jones in Wales and Charles O ' Conor in Ireland.

The name ' Bangor ' was selected in 1895 by the land's owner, a farmer named Owen Jones, after his birthplace Bangor in Wales.

Owen was educated in private schools and at the Central Academy in Charlottetown ( later Prince of Wales College ).

However, Ranulf Higdon in his Polychronicon ( 1327 ) states that Flemish was by his time extinct in southwest Wales, and George Owen in 1603 was adamant that Flemish was long extinct.

* 1606 – St. Nicholas Owen, English Jesuit and martyr ( b. c. 1550 )

Sir Owen Meredith Tudor ( ; c. 1400 – 2 February 1461 ) was a Welsh soldier and courtier, descended from a daughter of the Welsh prince Rhys ap Gruffudd, " Lord Rhys ".

In 1794 he took Owen Rees as a partner ; in the same year, Thomas Brown ( c. 1777 – 1869 ) entered the house as an apprentice.

* John Owen ( epigrammatist ) ( c. 1564 – 1622 ), Welsh epigrammatist

* Hugh Dubh O ' Neill, ( c. 1610-c. 1666 ), nephew of Owen Roe O ' Neill ( by his brother Art Oge ) and so grandnephew of Earl Hugh, and commander under his uncle in Ireland, where he held Limerick against Henry Ireton during a long siege.

Owen Feltham ( 1602 – February 23, 1668 ) was an English writer, author of a book entitled Resolves, Divine, Moral, and Political ( c. 1620 ), containing 146 short essays.

John Owen ( c. 1564c. 1622 / 1628 ) was a Welsh epigrammatist, most known for his Latin epigrams, collected in his Epigrammata.