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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 ...
Lady Margaret Beaufort was an exceedingly religious woman —"to God and to the Churche full obedient and tractable sechyng his honour and plesure full besyly" (Mornynge Remembraunce),—and a model of piety and devotion. Blessed John Fisher, who became her chaplain in 1502 and who had singular opportunities of understanding the nobleness of ...
Dec 13, 2022 · Lancastrian heiress and Tudor matriarch, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) was the first woman translator in Renaissance England and the first English woman in print. Her translations from French of the fourth book of Thomas à Kempis’s De Imitatione...
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Beaufort, Margaret (1443–1509)Countess of Richmond and Derby who might have tried to claim the throne of England but instead secured that position for her son, Henry VII, and all the Tudor line. Name variations: Lady Margaret; Margaret of Lancaster. Pronunciation: BOE-fort.
Jun 4, 2017 · Also in 1502, Margaret gave a grant to Cambridge to found the Lady Margaret Professorship of Divinity, and John Fisher became the first to occupy the chair. When Henry VII appointed John Fisher as bishop of Rochester, Margaret Beaufort was instrumental in choosing Erasmus as his successor in the Lady Margaret professorship.
Jul 4, 2023 · Lancastrian heiress and Tudor matriarch, Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509) was the first woman translator in Renaissance England and the first English woman in print. Her translations from French of the fourth book of Thomas à Kempis’s De imitatione...
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 ...
