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The Houses of York and Lancaster. Margaret of Anjou was a heroine; not a heroine of romance and fiction,but of stern and terrible reality. Her life was a series of militaryexploits, attended with dangers, privations, sufferings, and wonderfulvicissitudes of fortune, scarcely to be paralleled in the wholehistory of mankind. She was born and lived in...
Manners and Customs of The Time. In the days when Margaret of Anjou lived, the kings, princes, nobles,and knights who flourished in the realms of England and France, thoughthey were, relatively to the mass of the people, far more wealthy,proud, and powerful than their successors are at the present day,still lived in many respects in a very rude and...
King Henry VI. King Henry the Sixth, who subsequently became the husband of Margaretof Anjou, was only about nine months old, as has already been said,when he succeeded to the throne by the death of his father. He wasproclaimed by the heralds to the sound of trumpets and drums, in allparts of London, while he was yet an infant in his nurse's arms. ...
Margaret's Father and Mother. In former times, the territory which now constitutes France wasdivided into a great number of separate provinces, each of whichformed almost a distinct state or kingdom. These several provinceswere the possessions of lords, dukes, and barons, who ruled over them,respectively, like so many petty kings, with almost absol...
Royal Courtship. When Margaret was not more than fourteen or fifteen years of age, shebegan to be very celebrated for her beauty and accomplishments, andfor the charming vivacity of her conversation and her demeanor. Sheresided with her mother in different families in Lorraine and in otherparts of France, and was sometimes at the court of the Queen...
The Wedding. Preparations were now immediately made for solemnizing the marriageand bringing the young queen at once to England. The marriage ceremonyby which a foreign princess was united to a reigning prince, accordingto the custom of those times, was twofold, or, rather, there were twodistinct ceremonies to be performed, in one of which the brid...
Reception in England. Notwithstanding the grand reception which the Duke of Gloucester gaveto Margaret on her arrival in England, she knew very well that he hadalways been opposed to her marriage, and had not failed to do all inhis power to prevent it. She accordingly considered him as her enemy;and though she endeavored at first, at least, to trea...
The Story of Lady Neville. In reading the history of the English monarchy in these early times,you will often hear of the court intrigues which mingled with, andsometimes greatly complicated, the movement of public affairs.Margaret of Anjou found herself, on her arrival in England, involvedin many such intrigues. Indeed, she was admirably qualified...
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Margaret of Anjou. Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the ...
His wife, the despised Margaret of Anjou, cannot keep control and their great rival Richard Duke of York becomes Protector of the Realm. England is in limbo: a king crippled by insanity, a disliked and mistrusted queen, and two great families vying for control of the kingdom.
May 1, 2008 · Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482 Category: Text: EBook-No. 25275: Release Date: May 1, 2008: Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 117 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free!
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Apr 6, 2000 · Books. The Red Queen: Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses. Ruth S. Perot. AuthorHouse, Apr 6, 2000 - Fiction - 296 pages. This novel, The Red Queen, covers England's War...
Perot captures the very essence of the political turmoil of the Wars of the Roses in the characters of Margaret, her friends and her foes, of whom there were increasingly many. The ineluctability of fortune’s wheel is a paradigm of the day and Margaret and Henry, once at the top of that wheel, are crushed by its downward turn.
