MAKE A MEME View Large Image Katheryn was the heiress to the Berain and Penymynydd estates in Denbighshire and Anglesey. She is sometimes referred to as Katheryn Tudor, her father being Tudor ap Robert Vychan and her mother Jane Velville. Her maternal grandfather Sir ...
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Keywords: tudors portrait 16th century 16thcentury united kingdom unitedkingdom england britain nobility royalty Katheryn was the heiress to the Berain and Penymynydd estates in Denbighshire and Anglesey. She is sometimes referred to as Katheryn Tudor, her father being Tudor ap Robert Vychan and her mother Jane Velville. Her maternal grandfather Sir Roland de Velville (1474 - 25 June 1535) was thought to be an illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by "a Breton lady". Assuming Katheryn was a great-granddaughter of Henry VII, then King Henry VIII would be her half-great-granduncle. Her half first cousins twice removed would be King Edward VI, Queen Mary I, and Queen Elizabeth I and her second cousins would include (among others) Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Mary Grey and Lady Margaret Clifford. The Friesian artist van Cronenburgh probably painted this portrait while Katheryn was in the Netherlands. The skull, a common device in portraiture of the period, is symbolic of mortality. Katheryn was the heiress to the Berain and Penymynydd estates in Denbighshire and Anglesey. She is sometimes referred to as Katheryn Tudor, her father being Tudor ap Robert Vychan and her mother Jane Velville. Her maternal grandfather Sir Roland de Velville (1474 - 25 June 1535) was thought to be an illegitimate son of King Henry VII of England by "a Breton lady". Assuming Katheryn was a great-granddaughter of Henry VII, then King Henry VIII would be her half-great-granduncle. Her half first cousins twice removed would be King Edward VI, Queen Mary I, and Queen Elizabeth I and her second cousins would include (among others) Mary, Queen of Scots, Lady Jane Grey (Queen of England for nine days), James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Charles Stuart, 1st Earl of Lennox, Lady Catherine Grey, Lady Mary Grey and Lady Margaret Clifford. The Friesian artist van Cronenburgh probably painted this portrait while Katheryn was in the Netherlands. The skull, a common device in portraiture of the period, is symbolic of mortality.
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