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- When her husband, Henry VI, began to suffer from a mental illness, Margaret took the reigns of government and acted in fact, if not in title, as reigning monarch. Her conflicts with the Yorkist branch of the Plantagenets led to their open rebellion and the installment of Edward IV on the throne.
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May 22, 2019 · When the Duke of York became ‘Protector of England’, Margaret raised an army, insisting if King Henry wasn’t on the throne, his son was the rightful ruler. She drove back the rebels, but eventually the Yorkists captured London, took Henry VI to the capital, and threw him in prison.
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Margaret of Anjou (March 23, 1429 – August 25, 1482) was the French-born Queen consort of Henry VI of England from 1445 to 1471, who led the Lancastrian contingent in the Wars of the Roses. She was the daughter of Rene of Anjou, titular king of Naples and Jerusalem .
Sep 3, 2023 · On that day in May 1445, Margaret was crowned Queen of England. The day was celebrated with free wine for anyone who wished to drink. Among other things it was heralded as the dawn of a new age of peace between France and England. On that day England welcomed Margaret the peace-bringer. Of course, it was not to be.
Margaret of Anjou ( French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453.
The Angevin kings of England ( / ˈændʒɪvɪn /; "from Anjou ") were Henry II and his sons, Richard I and John, who ruled England from 1154 to 1216. With ancestral lands in Anjou, they were related to the Norman kings of England through Matilda, the daughter of Henry I, and Henry II's mother. They were also related to the earlier Anglo-Saxon ...
Apr 22, 2018 · Margaret of Anjou: Queen Consort. Margaret was betrothed to the King of England in 1444 after a protracted period of negotiations. The negotiations, begun in 1439, centred around the claims and counter-claims of each party to lands in France. Marriage between Margaret and Henry was mutually beneficial.
Henry VI, 23 Apr. 1445; d. 25 Aug. 1482; bur. Angers.Disliked by many English as a meddlesome foreigner, Margaret of Anjou made a gallant attempt to preserve the throne for her hapless husband and young son; by the time Edward was born in 1453, Henry had lapsed into insanity, and, though he made a partial recovery, she was thenceforth the main p...
