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MARGARET BEAUFORT, COUNTESS OF RICHMOND AND DERBY, mother of the English King, Henry VII, and foundress of St John's and Christ's colleges at Cambridge, was the daughter and heiress of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, and was born on the 31st of May 1443.
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.
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.
When Lady Margaret Beaufort Countess of Stafford was born in 1437, in London, Middlesex, England, her father, Edmund Beaufort 2nd Duke of Somerset, was 31 and her mother, Eleanor Beauchamp, was 29. She had at least 2 sons with Humphrey Stafford. She died in 1474, in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 37.
Lady Margaret's early experiences of the medieval 'marriage market' anticipated the turbulent political world in which she reached maturity. Deeply involved in the Wars of the Roses, and conspirator against Richard III, she was to become the foundress of one of England's greatest ruling dynasties.
Jul 7, 2021 · Margaret Beaufort (c. 1427 – 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 Berkeley, 4th Baroness Lisle. Elizabeth was daughter of Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley and Margaret de Lisle, 3rd ...
Jul 4, 2023 · Margaret Beaufort was born at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire, the only child of John Beaufort, first Duke of Somerset, and Margaret Beauchamp, Duchess of Somerset. Her paternal great-grandfather was John of Gaunt, one of the sons of Edward III, and her grandfather was the eldest son of John of Gaunt’s extramarital liaison with Lady Katherine ...
