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Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503), also known by marriage as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Burgundian State after his death. She was a daughter of Richard, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the sister of two kings of England, Edward IV ...
Students of the closing years of the Wars of the Roses will be aware of Margaret of Burgundy. It was she who was intent on spoiling the party for Henry VII when, so the narrative runs, the great first Tudor was frustrated in his fine purpose by the activities of those two historical oddities, the pretenders Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck. It ...
Feb 25, 2013 · Burgundy was a creation of a succession of historic chances and was really only secure when its neighbors were weak. The duchy had one of the largest urban populations in Europe. Margaret’s role was negligible in the first three years of her marriage but after 1472, she became active in affairs of state.
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Dec 19, 2013 · Isabel of Burgundy: The Duchess Who Played Politics in the Age of Joan of Arc, 1397-1471, by Aline S. Taylor. Margaret of York: Duchess of Burgundy 1446-1503, by Christine Weightman. Susan Abernethy is the writer of The Freelance History Writer and a contributor to Saints, Sisters, and Sluts.
In 1482, Mary of Burgundy died at age 25 from a fall from a horse. Margaret, her stepmother, took care of Mary’s two infant children, Philip the Fair (who later married Juana of Castile, daughter of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon) and Margaret of Austria. A third child, Franz, was born and died in 1481.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (1446-1503), youngest of Richard III ’s surviving sisters. Her marriage to Charles Duke of Burgundy was a major cause of Edward IV ’s rift with the Earl of Warwick. She was an exceptional patron of religious institutions and art, and a key supporter of Perkin Warbeck, the last major pretender to Henry VII’s ...
Margaret of York (1446–1503) Duchess of Burgundy and religious patron.Name variations: Margaret Plantagenet; Margaret of Burgundy; Margeret. Born into the House of York on May 3, 1446, at Fotheringhay Castle in Yorkshire, England; died on November 28, 1503, in Malines, Flanders; interred at the Church of the Cordeliers, Malines; daughter of Richard Neville (b. 1411), duke of York, and Cecily ...
