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4 days ago · Henry VI ennobled his half-brothers: Edmund became Earl of Richmond on 15 December 1449 and was married to Lady Margaret Beaufort, the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, the progenitor of the house of Lancaster; Jasper became Earl of Pembroke on 23 November 1452. Edmund died on 3 November 1456.
4 days ago · 1443 - Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, was born at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire. See video below or click here to read about her life. 1516 – Birth of John Harpsfield, religious writer and Catholic priest.
5 days ago · On this day in Tudor history, Tuesday 30th May, just eleven days after the execution of his second wife, Queen Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII married for the third time. The wedding took place in the Queen’s Closet at Whitehall, formerly York Place, a property that had been renovated by Henry and Anne Boleyn. The king had been wooing his wife ...
1 day ago · t. e. The House of Plantagenet [a] ( /plænˈtædʒənət/ plan-TAJ-ə-nət) was a royal house which originated in the French County of Anjou. The name Plantagenet is used by modern historians to identify four distinct royal houses: the Angevins, who were also counts of Anjou; the main line of the Plantagenets following the loss of Anjou; and ...
2 days ago · Amid the chaos, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III through Lady Margaret Beaufort, returned from exile with an army and killed Richard at Bosworth Field in 1485. Tudor then assumed the English throne as Henry VII and united the rival houses through marriage with Elizabeth of York , Edward IV's eldest daughter and heir.
5 days ago · Susan Powell, ‘Lady Margaret Beaufort and her books’, The Library, 6 th series, 20 (1998), 197–240.Back to (4) November 2010. Related terms. Religious History;
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5 days ago · She married as her first husband Sir Oliver St. John, and secondly John Beaufort Duke of Somerset, by whom she became mother of Lady Margaret Beaufort and grandmother of Henry VII. She died in 1482–3, when Bletsoe passed to John St. John, her son by her first husband.
