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Lady Margaret Beaufort was the daughter and sole heiress of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (1404–1444), a legitimised grandson of John of Gaunt (1st Duke of Lancaster and third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford, and John Beaufort's wife Margaret Beauchamp. Lady Margaret was born at Bletsoe ...
Countess of Stafford: Born: 1437: Died: 1474 (aged 36–37) Spouse(s) Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford Sir Richard Dayrell: Issue: Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Margaret Dayrell, Baroness Audley: Father: Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset: Mother: Lady Eleanor Beauchamp
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Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. She was the mother of Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty…
Countess Margaret Beaufort died on 29 June 1509, just one day after Henry VIII’s 18th birthday and two months after her own much-loved son Henry VII had passed away. The formidable, pious and perhaps ruthless Lady Beaufort, who had endured much during her life, became one of the most powerful women at court.
The countess was very pious and charitable, and under the influence of her confessor, John Fisher, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, she founded the Lady Margaret professorships of divinity at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. She completed the foundation of Christ's College, Cambridge, and after her death, in accordance with her wishes ...
Feb 11, 2021 · In her last will and testament of 1508, Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII and countess of Richmond and Derby, made provisions for the support and maintenance of two anchoresses named Margaret White and Agnes Leche, both of whom were resident in the market town of Stamford.
Sep 1, 2021 · Lady Margaret Beaufort. September 1, 2021September 20, 2021 danmoorhouse. BEAUFORT, MARGARET (1441–1509), Countess of Richmond and Derby, was daughter and heiress to John, first duke of Somerset, by his wife Margaret, widow of Sir Oliver St. John, and heiress to Sir J. Beauchamp of Bletso.
