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Katherine of Valois (1401–1437)

Katherine, daughter of King Charles VI of France, married Henry V in a move aimed at bringing peace, after her sister, Isabella of Valois, widow of Richard II had refused to marry him. After Henry died in 1422, Katherine was given Wallingford, where she is reputed to have been wooed by Owen Tudor. Although it is not certain that they married, they had four children together, including Edmund Tudor, who was the father of Henry VII.
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Katherine de Valois

Sir Douglas King (1919–1998)

Educated at Wallingford School, King was Director of Operations, Northern Ireland from 1973-1975 for the British Army under Harold Wilson's government.

Sir Francis Knollys (c. 1511–1596)

Francis who entered the service of Henry VIII before 1540, became a Member of Parliament in 1542 and was knighted in 1547 while serving with the English army in Scotland. He became custodian of Wallingford Castle in 1551 under Edward VI. As a strong Protestant, he retired to Germany soon after Mary became queen, returning to England to become a privy councillor, vice-chamberlain of the royal household and a Member of Parliament under Queen Elizabeth. In 1568 was sent to Carlisle to take charge of Mary, Queen of Scots, who had just fled from Scotland; afterwards he was in charge of the queen at Bolton Castle and then at Tutbury Castle. He gave up the position of guardian just after his wife's death in January 1569. He was one Elizabeth’s commissioners for the trials of Mary Queen of Scots, of Philip Howard, earl of Arundel, and of Anthony Babington. He was treasurer of the royal household from 1572 until his death on 19 July 1596. He received many grants of land from the queen, and was chief steward of the city of Oxford and made a Knight of the Garter in 1593. Sir Francis's eldest son Henry (d. 1583) became castellan in 1578. Sir Francis Knollys's second son William (c. 1544–1632) became castellan of Wallingford Castle in 1584 as Henry had no heirs. He served as a member of parliament and a soldier during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, being knighted in 1586 and becoming in a 1596 a privy councilor and comptroller of the royal household; in 1602 he was made treasurer of the household. Sir William enjoyed the favour of the new king James I, whom he had visited in Scotland in 1585, and was made Baron Knollys in 1603 and Viscount Wallingford in 1616. However, in this latter year his fortunes suffered a temporary reverse when a relative by marriage was tried for murder. Richard Knollys, (1546-1590), the fifth son of Sir Francis became MP for Wallingford in 1584.

William Knollys (1544-1632)