His son, Owen Tudor, came as a young man to seek his fortune at the Court of Henry V., and obtained a clerkship of the wardrobe to Henry's Queen, Catherine of France.

So skilfully did he use or abuse this position of trust, that he won the heart of his mistress; and within a few years of Henry's death his widowed Queen and her clerk of the wardrobe were secretly, and possibly without legal sanction, living together as man and wife.

The discovery of their relations resulted in Catherine's retirement to Bermondsey Abbey, and Owen's to Newgate prison.

The Queen died in the following year, but Owen survived many romantic adventures.

Twice he escaped from prison, twice he was recaptured.