Legendary conqueror of France, he was everything medieval minds thought a king should be. Cut down while still relatively young (early 40s), the minority and then insipidness and ultimate insanity of his son led to the Wars of the Roses.1

Scandalized the world when she married a lowborn Welsh servant after Henry V’s death. Their descendants would be decisive in the Wars of the Roses and end only in Elizabeth I, “Gloriana.”1

A statute of 1427-8 forbade the queen to remarry, so her marriage to Owen was kept secret until her premature death. Her children by him were taken into the care of the Abbess of Barking and Owen was “severely punished.”288