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Apr 8, 2024 · On 14 February 1453, a nine-year-old girl was travelling to London to be introduced to the court of King Henry VI. Her name was Margaret Beaufort, the only child of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and inheritor of a large landed estate. Margaret (born on 31 May 1443) had royal blood in her veins. But it was tainted blood, for her family was ...
Oct 29, 2020 · Educated, ambitious, shrewd and cultured, Margaret played a huge role in the founding of the Tudor dynasty. 1. She was married young. Aged just 12, Margaret was married to Edmund Tudor, a man double her age. Even by the standards of Medieval marriage, such an age gap was unusual, as was the fact that the marriage was consummated immediately.
Margaret was also the patroness of William Caxton, England's first printer and contributed to the endowment of her son Henry's chapel at the Abbey. She died on 29th June 1509 at the Abbot of Westminster's house a few days after attending the coronation of her grandson Henry VIII. On 3rd July her body was moved from Cheyneygates (lodgings within ...
Margaret Beaufort. Played by Amanda Hale. Fact title. Fact data. House. Lancaster. A fierce Lancastrian supporter, Margaret was married to the half-brother of the Lancastrian King Henry VI. Her ...
Oct 4, 2022 · A short profile of Margaret alongside other influential women of her time E. M. G. Routh, Lady Margaret: A Memoir of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond & Derby, Mother of Henry VII, 1924: e-text Catholic Encyclopedia article Margaret Beaufort's patronage of theatre and/or music The school that was established in honour of Lady ...
Lady Margaret Beaufort at prayer, by Rowland Lockey, about 1500. Lady Margaret Beaufort (31 May 1441 – 29 June 1509), of the House of Lancaster, was the mother of King Henry VII of England, and grandmother of Henry VIII. She was an important figure in the Wars of the Roses. Lady Margaret Hall, a college of the University of Oxford, is named ...
Beaufort, Lady Margaret. Beaufort, Lady Margaret (1443–1509). 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 ...
