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Monumental brass of Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, the husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort, in St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. Margaret was married to Suffolk's son, John de la Pole.
Sep 16, 2020 · Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, was the mother of Henry VII, the first Tudor king. Born in 1443, she was the only child and heiress of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, a grandson of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, fourth son of Edward III.
Lady Margaret Beaufort is one of history’s most famous mothers, but her life as a wife has been less examined. Even before she married Edmund Tudor and gave birth to a future king at age thirteen, Margaret had already been married.
Jun 25, 2024 · 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 III). In 1455 she married Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and half brother of King Henry VI (reigned 1422–61 and 1470–71).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 1, 2012 · Her first husband was Edmund Tudor, the son of Katherine of Valois (widow of Henry V) and Owen Tudor, a Welsh squire. Edmund died in November 1456 and a few months later the 13-year-old Margaret gave birth to his posthumous son - the future Henry VII.
Now fourteen, Margaret married her second cousin, Sir Henry Stafford and went to live at Woking Palace. Meanwhile, the care of her child Henry Tudor fell to his uncle Jasper Tudor, who granted Margaret and her husband the opportunity to visit him at Pembroke Castle.
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Edmund Tudor, a Lancastrian and married to Margaret, was captured and taken prisoner. Within a year while in captivity at Carmarthen Castle in Wales, he died of the plague in 1456. Margaret was now at just 13, a widow and pregnant with Edmund’s child.
