Catherine de Valois. Henry's widow Catherine de Valois (1401-1437) secretly married Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire, in about 1430, and one of her three sons, Edmund, Earl of Richmond (c.1430-1456) was the ...

The last effigy known to have been carried at an Abbey funeral is that of Catherine, Duchess of Buckingham who died in 1743. Her son Robert Sheffield, Marquess of Normanby is the only effigy of a ...

The funeral effigy of Catherine of Valois at Westminister Abbey in London and the carved stone found in a field in Co Meath. Photograph: David E Steen/Hulton Archive/Getty Images .