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Apr 6, 2000 · This novel, The Red Queen, covers England's War of the Roses, 1444-1475. Fascinating characters abound in that period. There are, in addition to Margaret, who was married at age 14: Henry...
Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England 1445-1471. Assumed military power during King Henry VI's lifetime to oppose the Yorkist claim.
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Early life, marriage
Margaret was born on March 23, 1429. When she was just 14, she was betrothed to Henry VI, and in the following year she journeyed to England to marry him at Titchfield Abbey near Southampton, on April 23, 1445. On May 28, she was welcomed at Londonwith a great pageant, and two days later crowned at Westminster Cathedral. Margaret's marriagehad been negotiated by William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, and when she came to England, de la Pole and his wife were her only friends. She thus came unde...
Political career
Margaret's active engagement in politics began after Suffolk's fall in 1450. She supported Edmond Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in his opposition to Richard of York. She also concerned herself in the details of government, gaining a reputation for seeking financial benefits for herself and her friends. As a childless queen, however, her influence was limited. Just when, at last, her only son, Edward, was born on the October 13, 1453, her husband was stricken with insanity. From this time on, sh...
Later years
For seven years, she lived at Saint-Michel-en-Barrois, educating her son with the help of Sir John Fortescue, who wrote at this time: "We be all in great poverty, but yet the queen sustaineth us in meat and drink. Her highness may do no more than she doth" (Works, ii. 72, ed. Clermont). Meanwhile, Edward IV, the son of Richard of York, had acceded to the throne. Margaret never lost hope in her son's restoration. But when at last the quarrel between Warwick and Edward IV brought her the opport...
Margaret was learned and fierce, a far truer product of the clever and cruel Angevin house than her gentle and scrupulous father, René. She was devoted to hunting as well as to reading and, even in the days of her comparative prosperity, was an importunate beggar of everything which she desired. Her career in England, whose rights and whose fortune...
Abbott, Jacob. History of Margaret of Anjou, Queen of Henry VI of England. Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 978-0766193505King, Betty. Margaret of Anjou. Ulverscroft Large Print, 2000. ISBN 978-0708942314Maurer, Helen E. Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England. Boydell Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1843831044Perot, Ruth S. The Red Queen: Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses. 1st Book Library, 2000. ISBN 978-1587212338It covers the years from 1444-1475, during the reign of Henry VI, the indecisive, humanistic, unwarlike king who ruled during a time of great upheaval and political intrigue.
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Synopsis. Heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, Margaret Beaufort fervently believes that her house is the true ruler of England. Ignored by her sainted cousin Henry VI, mocked by her mother, married at age twelve, and endangered by childbirth, she vows to put her son on the throne.
Mar 31, 2024 · Margaret would be the last Lancastrian Queen, ultimately failing in both protecting her son and her husband’s throne. Edward, Prince of Wales would be killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury on the 4th May 1471 and Henry VI would be dead by the 21st May 1471.
