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Nov 6, 2003 · Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeare's portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because ...
Margarida de Anjou nasceu em 23 de março de 1429 em Pont-à-Mousson no Ducado de Lorena. Ela era filha de Renato, duque de Anjou e Isabel, duquesa de Lorena. Seu pai, Renato, da Casa de Valois-Anjou, era duque de Anjou e rei titular de Nápoles, Sicília e Jerusalém e sua mãe era a duquesa de Lorena por seus próprios méritos. [1]
Apr 15, 2023 · Margaret of Anjou remains one of the most notorious consorts in medieval history, the queen we love to hate. But is her reputation deserved, or was she simply caught between the machinations and rivalries of powerful men?
Aug 7, 2019 · This chapter explores the posthumous reputation of Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), queen consort to Henry VI of England, in modern historiography and fiction. Henry VI’s mental incapacity enabled Margaret to fill the resulting political vacuum as the...
When Margaret of Anjou died at the Chateau of Dampierre, near Saumur, on August 25, 1482 it was as a woman not only retired from the world but almost forgotten by it. She who had been for a time the virtual ruler of Lancastrian England, who had raised armies and intrigued with princes, had not enough money to pay her debts except through the ...
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, daughter of René of Anjou, titular king of Naples and Jerusalem, was born on the 23rd of March 1430. When just fourteen she was betrothed to King Henry VI of England, and in the following year was brought to England and married at Titchfield Abbey, near Southampton, on the 23rd of April 1445.
Mar 31, 2024 · As part of Women's History Month, resident medievalist Lorna Webb looked at the life and times of the two most important women of the Wars of the Roses – who both happen to be called Margaret – Margaret of Anjou and Margaret Beaufort.
