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), is said to have been a natural son of King Henry VII of England by a Breton lady. At the age of 22, Katheryn married John Salusbury, Esquire, son of Sir John Salusbury of Llewenni (died 1578), of the prestigious Salusbury Family of Lleweni, Denbighshire.
Katheryn, who is said to have been a ward of queen Elizabeth, was the heiress to the Berain and Penymynydd estates in Denbighshire and Anglesey. John Salusbury
According to John Ballinger, this was probably a "child marriage". He died in late May or early June 1566.
They had been married for nine years and had two sons:
Thomas Salusbury (c 1564 – September 20, 1586).
Executed as a traitor for his involvement in the Babington Plot. John Salusbury (c 1565/66 – 1612), married Ursula Stanley, illegitimate daughter of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby and Jane Halsall.
Their only surviving son was Sir Henry Salusbury, 1st Baronet, the first of the Salusbury Baronets of Lleweni (1619). Henry was the father of Anne Salusbury, the wife of Arthur Stanhope and ancestor of all the Earls of Chesterfield from the fifth Earl.
Shakespeare"s poem The Phoenix and the Turtle was published in a collection called Love"s Martyr (1601), dedicated to Katheryn"s son John Salusbury, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in June 1601.
Sir Richard Clough
Clough had lived in Antwerp, and upon his return to Denbighshire in 1567 he built two houses, Bach-y-graig and Plas Clough. The houses were built in Antwerp style by Flemish craftsmen and were the first brick houses in Wales. Katheryn had two daughters by Clough:
Their only son was John Salisbury.
Anne inherited "Bach-y-graig".
Mary Clough (born 1569). Married William Wynn, A relative of Maurice Wynn.
The Cloughs lived for a time in Antwerp, where Katheryn"s portrait was painted, probably by Adriaen van Cronenburgh, as the National Museum now suggests, or perhaps by Lucas de Heere, a previous attribution. He was probably poisoned because of his work as a spy for Queen Elizabeth I.
Maurice Wynn
Katheryn then married Maurice Wynn of Gwydir.
Wynn was Sheriff of Caernarvonshire and left Katheryn an extremely wealthy woman when he died.
Katheryn had a further two children by Maurice Wynn:
Henry Wynn, who married Blanche Vaughan. Jane Wynn, who married Simon Thelwall. Edward Thelwall
The Welsh poet Robert Parry wrote an elegy on the occasion of Katheryn"s death.
Her many descendants included Hester Thrale and the 18th century explorer John Salusbury.
