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Oct 7, 2014 · Margaret Beaufort’s husband died almost ten years after his wife at Abingdon Abbey in 1458 and was succeeded by his son who’d been cleared of the murder of Nicholas Radford. It is thought that Margaret Courtenay nee Beaufort, Countess of Devon is buried in St Andrew’s Church Colyton. The effigy at the start of this blog was identified as ...
Margaret was present, aged 66, at her grandson's coronation in Westminster Abbey on 24 June 1509. The ascendancy of this dynamic teenage king showed Margaret’s profound success in transforming her Beaufort-Tudor family from political outsiders into the established ruling dynasty. But just five days later, after falling ill at the coronation ...
Margaret Beaufort was born 31 May 1443, the only child of John Beaufort Duke of Somerset from his marriage to Margaret Beauchamp (widow of Oliver St John). Somerset died in disgrace when Margaret was only a year old (possibly of suicide) and she was made a ward of William de la Pole, Marquis of Suffolk. Suffolk married her to his only son, John ...
Apr 27, 2022 · About Lady Katherine Spencer, Countess of Northumberland. Catherine Spencer. F, #10452, b. circa 1480, d. circa October 1542. Last Edited=10 May 2003. Catherine Spencer was born circa 1480. She was the daughter of Sir Robert Spencer and Eleanor Beaufort. She married Henry Algernon Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, son of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl ...
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford. found in Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford. found in British Chancery Records, 1386-1558. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford. found in UK and Ireland, Find A Grave Index, 1300s-Current.
Margaret Beaufort. Margaret Beaufort was the mother of the Tudor Dynasty. The Countess of Richmond had just one child, Henry Tudor. It was her lineage that gave Henry the claim to the throne: Margaret was a great-granddaughter of King Edward III, though from a line that King Henry IV determined could never inherit the throne.
In the late 15th century Margaret Beaufort came to prominence as a major figure in the Wars of the Roses and was notably the mother of the first Tudor monarch. She was influential in bringing the country together and orchestrating a new power in the kingdom from the chaos of civil war. Her singular aim in life over six decades was to give birth ...
