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The sixth (the last) volume of the Grandes Chroniques opens (folio 9) with the image of the marriage of Henry V (1413-1422) and Catharine of Valois, with the initials of the royal couple, 'K de France' and 'H. le Einglieshe', inscribed at their feet. The marriage was arranged by the Treaty of Troyes (1420), which guaranteed the English succession in France. The wedding scene included in a book for Henry VII must have had a special meaning to the King's own royal identity. Queen Catharine, who secretly married Owen Tudor after Henry V's death, was Henry VII's grandmother.
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