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| Margaret /DE BEAUFORT C. Richmond C. Derby 1 2 | |
| Birth: | 31 May 1443 in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England |
| Death: | 29 Jun 1509 in Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster, England |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | John DE BEAUFORT 1st Duke of Somerset, KG b. About Apr 1404 in Westminster, Middlesex, England |
| Mother: | Margaret DE BEAUCHAMP Duchess of Somerset b. Ca 1410/12 in Bletsoe, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Burial: Westminster, Middlesex, England |
| Education: v. 3, pg. 389 |
| Changed: 27 Jan 2003 |
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| John DE LA POLE 2d Duke of Suffolk (Husband) b. 27 Sep 1442 in Lincolnshire, England
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| Marriage: | 1449 |
| Marriage Annulment: | 1452 |
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| Edmund or Edward TUDOR 1st Earl of Richmond (Husband) b. About 1430 in Much Hadham Palace, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
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| Marriage: | 1 NOV 1455 |
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 Henry VII [O20] TUDOR King of England b. 28 Jan 1457 in Pembroke Castle, Wales [where he lived to age 14]
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| Henry DE STAFFORD Sir Knight (Husband) b. 1426
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| Marriage: | BEF 1464 |
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| Thomas II [NA56] STANLEY 1st Earl of Derby, KG (Husband) b. About 1435 in Lathom, Lancashire, England
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| Marriage: | BEF 1482 |
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- George STANLEY 9th Baron Strange, KG b. About 1460 in Knowsley, Lancashire, England
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In accordance with her will, St John's College, Cambridge, wasfounded in 1511.http://www.britannia.com/bios/ladies/mbeaufort.htmlThe Countess of Richmond & Derby, commonly called Lady MargaretBeaufort, was the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset(son of John of Gaunt by Catherine Swynford), and his wife,Margaret Beauchamp. At the age of about seven, she became thechild bride of John De La Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, but theunion was later dissolved. The Beaufort stock, though originallybastard, was legitimized by an Act of Parliament in Richard IIísreign. Thus, on the failure of the heirs of King Henry VI,Margaret's claim to the crown of England became quite a possibleone (1471). Such as it was, however, the Lancastrian title hadoriginally rested, if on anything beyond usurpation orparliamentary election, on the exclusion of females. Henry VI always looked upon the Beauforts as possible heirs and,in 1455, married the twelve-year-old Margaret to his ownmaternal half-brother, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (then agedtwenty-five). Her son, afterwards Henry VII, was born in 1456,and her husband died in the same year. She, soon afterward,married Henry Stafford, the second son of the Duke ofBuckingham, and submitted to the Yorkist rule; but, after theBattle of Tewkesbury, she was obliged to send her son, Henry,now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refuge inBrittany. Margaret's third husband was a pronounced Yorkist, Thomas, LordStanley, afterwards Earl of Derby; but his final defection fromRichard III on the field of Bosworth secured the victory to hisstepson, Henry VII. Margaret, though she seldom appeared at herson's court, remained, until her death, his constantcorrespondent and one of his wisest advisers. She took vows ofreligion in 1504, but continued to live out of a nunnery,although she had founded several. Her great glory is, however, her foundation of the two Collegesof Christ's and St. John's at Cambridge, and of the' LadyMargaret' professorships of Divinity at both Universities. Shewas instigated to these foundations by the advice of JohnFisher, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, one of the glories, asindeed Margaret herself also was, of Renaissance learning inEngland. Margaret was an ardent patron of the Early EnglishPress and her grandson Henry VIII's love of learning and bookswas no doubt a direct inheritance from her.
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- Type: Web Site
Title: Tudor Biographies
Date: Dec 2002
- Text: Ency Americana, Americana Corp., New York. 1955. Volume and Page
Text: numbers are given for the 1955 editions, although the
Text: information therein should be available in later editions or in
Text: any other good encyclopedia or biographical dictionary.
Text: Consult also the internet for extensive data.
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