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    1. Re: [WINN] robert wynne (mayor)
    2. David Alban
    3. Interesting history, Marilyn. Did Katrin have any children with Morris (Maurice) Wynne? Vi robertlcapps wrote: > > > Theresa and group.... > > Not sure if you have this, but check this one out....Also shows a > picture of her. > > Marilyn > > http://www.gmilne.demon.co.uk/kath.htm > > Katherine Tudor of Berain (1534-1591) by Lucas de Heere > Painted in 1568, when she was 34 years old. > > This painting is now in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff but > there are, I understand, a number of copies in private hands. This > painting was sold some time before the second world war and found > its way to Holland. When the Germans invaded Holland the painting > was seized as booty by Goering and was presumably taken to his > country seat, Karinhall. At the end of the second world war the > painting was captured by Allied soldiers and eventually found its > way to Cardiff. > > The locket she is wearing round her neck is said to have contained > hair of Sir Richard Clough, Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, her second > husband. They were married in 1567 and he died in 1570. Katherine > (or, more correctly, Katrin or Catrin) was married four times and > was reputed to have murdered her first three husbands, John > Salusbury, who she married in 1556 and who died in 1566, Sir Richard > Clough (see above) and Morris Wynn of Gwydir, who she married some > time before 1573 and who died in 1580. Her fourth husband was Edward > Thelwall of Plas-y-ward, who she married in 1583. > > > > > > >

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