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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 ...
Feb 25, 2013 · Margaret would learn the government of Burgundy was widespread and she would be required to travel regularly. She was to play an active role in the government as an administrator and as the Duke’s representative. Margaret of York’s Burgundian coronet. While she was Duchess she made twenty eight major journeys.
When Duke Charles died in 1477 Margaret was very active in supporting her step-daughter Marie, Duchess of Burgundy, and in arranging Marie’s marriage to Maximilian king of the Romans. Marie died in 1482 leaving a five-year-old heir, Philip the Fair, who Margaret now brought up. Margaret refused to recognise Henry VII’s accession and paid ...
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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.
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 ...
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, was the youngest of Richard III’s surviving sisters. She was born on 3rd May 1446, the sixth child and third daughter of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville. It is often reported that she was born at Fotheringhay but, according to a note in her sister Anne’s Book of Hours, it was really at Waltham Abbey.
Margaret of York, princess of England and duchess of Burgundy (1446-1503), is the central figure in this examination of the role and function of women within the power structures of fifteenth-century north-western Europe.
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