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Lady Margaret Beaufort. Countess of Richmond and Derby, b. 1443; d. 1509, daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, first Duke of Somerset. Her father, the grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and great-grandson of Edward III, having died when she was three years old, she was brought up by her mother with the greatest care and devotion.
The moving word. The mother of King Henry VII, Margaret Beaufort (Bletsoe, 1441 or 1443–Westminster Abbey, 1509) played a leading role in public and cultural life at the end of the fifteenth century. Having endowed the founding of Christ’s and St John’s Colleges, she also left in Cambridge collections several priceless historical documents.
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Sep 16, 2020 · Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), Countess of Richmond and Derby, Foundress late 16th C. unknown artist. Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Margaret was John of Gaunt's great-granddaughter. In 1455, at twelve, she married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, one of the sons of Henry V 's widow, Katherine of Valois, by Owen Tudor.
Dec 13, 2022 · Lancastrian heiress and Tudor matriarch, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) was the first woman translator in Renaissance England and the first English woman in print. Her translations from French of the fourth book of Thomas à Kempis’s De Imitatione...
Feb 11, 2021 · Footnote 89 A surviving book of hours gifted from Margaret Beaufort to Lady Anne Shirley reveals how female reading communities created ties of loyalty and obligation between women. In exchange for the book, Margaret asked to be remembered in Lady Shirley's prayers, writing: ‘my good lady Shyrley pray for me that gevythe yow thys booke y ...
Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Beaufort, Mother of Henry VII, at prayer, by Rowland Lockey, about 1500. Margaret Beaufort (May 31, 1443 – June 29, 1509) was the mother of King Henry VII of England, the grandmother of Henry VIII, and great-grandmother of Elizabeth I. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses .
