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Lady Margaret Beaufort is one of history’s most famous mothers, but her life as a wife has been less examined. Even before she married Edmund Tudor and gave birth to a future king at age thirteen, Margaret had already been married.
May 6, 2018 · In September 1467, for instance, there is a record of Margaret traveling with her husband to see her son for a about a week. The arrangement came to an abrupt end in 1469 when Edward IV was betrayed by his younger brother, George, Duke of Clarence, and his closest adviser and cousin, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.
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She was born on 31st May 1443, daughter of John (Beaufort), Duke of Somerset and his wife Margaret (Beauchamp). She was descended from one of the illegitimate children of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of Edward III) and his mistress Katherine Swynford. They were given the name Beaufort after Gaunt's castle in the Champagne region of Franc...
Her fine tomb is by Italian sculptor Pietro Torrigiano (Torrigiani), with a portrait effigy in gilt bronze of the Countess in her old age, wearing a widow's dress with a hood and long mantle. Her head rests on two pillows, with a design of the portcullis and Tudor rose, and the delicate and characteristic wrinkled hands are raised in prayer. The ef...
The private illuminated prayer book of Lady Margaret was presented to the Abbey Library by Viscount Dillon in 1923 (MS.39). Two wooden travelling chests, thought to have belonged to her, remain in the Abbey's possession. One was used to house the indentures for the building of Henry VII's chapel. The prayer book and one of the chests can be seen in...
See entry for her half-brother - John Welles The King's Motherby M.K. Jones and Malcolm Underwood, Cambridge, 1992 Contracts for the tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort (also the grille) by R.F. Scott, 1915 (originals in the archives of St John's College, Cambridge) Westminster Abbey. The Lady Chapel of Henry VII by T. Tatton Brown & Richard Mortimer, 2...
Lady Margaret Beaufort Title Countess of Richmond and Derby Born 31 May 1443 Place of Birth Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire Died 29 June 1509 Place of Death Richmond Palace, London Spouse/s. John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond Sir Henry Stafford Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Lady Margaret Beaufort Title Countess of Richmond and Derby Born 31 May 1443 Place of Birth Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire Died 29 June 1509 Place of Death Richmond Palace, London Spouse/s. John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond Sir Henry Stafford Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
Lady Margaret Beaufort married Henry Stafford, one of the sons of the Duke of Buckingham, on the 3rd of January 1458 at the age of 14. Again, the Wars of the Roses claimed another of Lady Margaret’s husbands. Stafford died of his wounds at the Battle of Barnet.
The mother of Henry VII, Margaret Beaufort was one of the most remarkable women of the 15th cent. She was married to Edmund Tudor, earl of Richmond, as a child and conceived Henry when she was only 12. Tudor died when she was six months pregnant; she outlived two further husbands, but had no more children.
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