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Jun 14, 2024 · Margaret of Anjou (born March 23, 1430, probably Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, Fr.—died Aug. 25, 1482, near Saumur) was the queen consort of England’s King Henry VI and a leader of the Lancastrians in the Wars of the Roses (1455–85) between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482) was the daughter of René, Duke of Anjou (also Duke of Bar, Lorraine, Calabria, Count of Provence and Piedmont, and titular King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem), and wife of King Henry VI of England.
- Margaret of Anjou. Margaret spent her early years living in the castle of Tarascon in the Rhone Valley and at the palace at Capua in Naples, educated by her mother and Antoine de la Salle.
- Henry VI. The marriage proved to be an unpopular one. In 1453, at the age of 32, Henry VI began to exhibit signs of serious mental illness. By means of a "sudden fright", he entered into a trance-like state reacting to and recognising no one.
- Signature of Margaret of Anjou. A great council was called at Leicester. York and his allies, Richard, Earl of Warwick and his father, Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, suspecting unimpartial treatment, travelled south with an army.
- Edward Prince of Wales. Margaret lived in exile in France with her son Edward. The mighty Richard Neville Earl of Warwick, discontented that he had not been given the power he had assumed by his support of the Yorkist cause, was alienated from Edward IV by the latter's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, whom he heartily disliked.
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- Sources and Interpretations from C1600 to Modern-Day
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The task essentially creates a timeline of events that is then added to with layers of historical opinion and interpretation. This layered approach can utilise the graphical method and move the various sources up and down a scale to visualise the student’s assessment of the strength of feeling within the interpretation of Margaret’s actions. By col...
York named as ProtectorThe Parliament of DevilsBattle of WakefieldMargaret in ExileProfessor A.J. Pollard. The Wars of the Roses (3rdEdition). British History in Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. (2013)
Your task will be making a judgement as to her reputation based on each individual source. Does it state or suggest that she has a good, or bad, reputation? The sources will be plotted onto the timeline to give an indication as to the weight of evidence about her reputation at any given time, or overall. You can add them as you read through the sou...
(1) I am writing to report what an Englishman told me about the magnificence of the Queen of England… Milanese State Papers, October 1458 (2) [In October 1456] the king sent for the Earl of Warwick and the Duke of York, who he received with a gracious welcome; however, the queen greatly loathed them both. Benet’s Chronicle (3) …the queen has made a...
(14) This woman, when she perceived the king her husband to nothing of his own head but to rule wholly by Gloucester’s advice, [decided] to take upon herself that charge. Polydore Virgil (15) [In 1459] the queen, for diligence, circumspection and speedy execution of causes.. believed for certain that [there were plans] whereby the Duke of York atta...
(18) “in the context of civil-war a foreign-born queen might readily be condemned for her malign influence over her husband” and her gender – “she failed to conform to contemporary expectations of queenly behaviour by involving herself in politics.” Diana E.S. Dunn, War and Society in Medieval Britain (19) Being on the losing side, on the wrong sid...
The murder of Suffolk (May 1450)Henry’s mental breakdown (August 1453)The birth of Prince Edward (October 1453)York named as Protector (March 1454)How did Margaret of Anjou gain a negative reputation?Is the reputation of being “The she-wolf of France” a fair one?What problems do historians face when attempting to make an assessment of the reputation of Margaret of Anjou?Whilst there are many sources included within the activity they are short enough and pointed enough to not overwhelm an A-Level class. It is possible to break the sources down through classification exercises to make the activity more accessible. This could be sorting them into pro-anti Margaret; sorting into periods to enable assessment of how she...
- Emma Irving
- Her marriage to Henry VI had an unusual requirement. Born in the French Duchy of Lorraine, Margaret of Anjou grew up in France before her marriage to Henry VI in 1445.
- She was fierce, passionate and strong-willed. Margaret was fifteen years old when she was crowned queen consort at Westminster Abbey. She was described as beautiful, passionate, proud and strong-willed.
- She was a great lover of learning. Margaret spent her early youth in at a castle in the Rhone Valley and at a palace in Naples. She received a good education and was probably tutored by Antoine de la Salle, a famous writer and tournament judge of the era.
- Her husband’s rule was unpopular. A breakdown in law and order, corruption, the distribution of royal land to the king’s court favourites and the continued loss of land in France meant Henry and his French queen’s rule became unpopular.
Feb 5, 2013 · The story is well known of how, in the aftermath of the battle, King Henry, together with his wife Margaret of Anjou and their seven-year-old son Edward, fled for refuge to the Scottish court; of how, in the summer of 1462, Queen Margaret journeyed to her home territory in the Loire valley and personally secured a treaty of alliance with Louis ...
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Jan 5, 2019 · Margaret of Anjou spent her early childhood in the castle of Tarascon in Provence and the Capua palace in Naples. She took education from her beautiful, witty, brave and capable mother. And she observed firsthand that a woman could govern as well as a man.
