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John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Mother. Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso. Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: / ˈboʊfərt / BOH-fərt or / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. [1]
Margaret Beaufort (born May 31, 1443—died June 29, 1509) was the mother of King Henry VII (reigned 1485–1509) of England and founder of St. John’s and Christ’s colleges, Cambridge. Margaret was the daughter and heir of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, and great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (a son of King Edward ...
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Margaret was present, aged 66, at her grandson's coronation in Westminster Abbey on 24 June 1509. The ascendancy of this dynamic teenage king showed Margaret’s profound success in transforming her Beaufort-Tudor family from political outsiders into the established ruling dynasty. But just five days later, after falling ill at the coronation ...
Jan 30, 2019 · Father: John Beaufort, earl of Somerset (1404 – 1444). His mother was Margaret Holland and his father was John Beaufort, first earl of Somerset. Siblings: Margaret Beaufort had no full siblings. Her mother had six children with her first husband, Oliver St. John. Margaret’s mother, Margaret Beauchamp, was an heiress whose maternal ancestors ...
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Margaret Beaufort was the second and youngest [2] daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c.1371 – 16 March 1410), by his wife Margaret Holland (c.1385/6 – c.1439/40), the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent by his wife Alice Arundel. Her father, John Beaufort, was an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of ...
- 1449 (aged c. 40)
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- c. 1409, Westminster, London, United Kingdom
- Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon
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.
Countess Margaret Beaufort died on 29 June 1509, just one day after Henry VIII’s 18th birthday and two months after her own much-loved son Henry VII had passed away. The formidable, pious and perhaps ruthless Lady Beaufort, who had endured much during her life, became one of the most powerful women at court.
