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Margaret of York (3 May 1446 – 23 November 1503), also known by marriage as Margaret of Burgundy, was Duchess of Burgundy as the third wife of Charles the Bold and acted as a protector of the Burgundian State after his death.
Feb 25, 2013 · The duchy had one of the largest urban populations in Europe. Margaret’s role was negligible in the first three years of her marriage but after 1472, she became active in affairs of state. Margaret would learn the government of Burgundy was widespread and she would be required to travel regularly.
Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy. Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (1446-1503), youngest of Richard III ’s surviving sisters. Her marriage to Charles Duke of Burgundy was a major cause of Edward IV ’s rift with the Earl of Warwick. She was an exceptional patron of religious institutions and art, and a key supporter of Perkin Warbeck, the ...
Richard Hughes asks whether the ‘Diabolical Duchess’ was in reality another Tudor victim. Students of the closing years of the Wars of the Roses will be aware of Margaret of Burgundy. It was she who was intent on spoiling the party for Henry VII when, so the narrative runs, the great first Tudor was frustrated in his fine purpose by the ...
Women. Encyclopedias almanacs transcripts and maps. Margaret of York (1446–1503) views 1,992,892 updated. Margaret of York (1446–1503) Duchess of Burgundy and religious patron . Name variations: Margaret Plantagenet; Margaret of Burgundy; Margeret.
Dec 19, 2013 · By Susan Abernethy. Margaret of York, sister to two kings of England, made one of the most brilliant marriages of her century. When she became a childless widow, she managed to settle into a comfortable, wealthy life and to have a principal role in Burgundian government for her husband’s heirs until her death at the age of fifty seven.
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy, was the youngest of Richard III’s surviving sisters. She was born on 3rd May 1446, the sixth child and third daughter of Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville. It is often reported that she was born at Fotheringhay but, according to a note in her sister Anne’s Book of Hours, it was really at Waltham Abbey.
