Note 73d — Chapter V · THE FIELD OF THE BATTLE OF MORTIMER’S CROSS. [67a]

He is called Sir Owen Tudor by Hall, Holinshed, Speed, and Grafton, in their respective accounts of the battle, and he is also so called by Sandford in his Genealogical History, p. 297, and Sir Owen ap Merydeth ap Tudor, ibid. p. 242, which are certainly high authorities for believing that he was a knight; but Sandford elsewhere calls him “Owen Tudor” only, ibid. p. 283, 284. Yet Baker, in the part of his Chronicles in which the marriage of Owen Tudor with Katherine, widow of King Henry V., is mentioned, calls him “Owen Tudor an Esquire of Wales.” He is also called “a Squyer of Wales” in Leland’s Collectanea, vol. ii. fo. 492 [708]. Ralph Brooke, in his Catalogue of the Nobility, &c., says that Katherine married “a noble Gentleman named Owen Theoder of Wales.” Fabyan, fo. 627, calls him a knyght of Wales.