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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.
A young woman, believed by some to be a young Lady Margaret Beaufort, in the National Portrait Gallery. While in the care of her brother-in-law Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke, on 28 January 1457, the 13-year-old Margaret gave birth to a son, Henry Tudor, at Pembroke Castle. As she was not yet physically mature, the birth was extremely difficult.
Margaret Beaufort ( c. 1437 – 1474) was a daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp . Her maternal grandparents were Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick and his first wife Elizabeth Beauchamp, 4th Baroness Lisle. Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley and Margaret de Berkeley ...
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 ...
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 ...
