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John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. Mother. Margaret Beauchamp of Bletso. Lady Margaret Beaufort (pronounced / ˈboʊfərt / BOH-fərtor / ˈbjuːfərt / BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch.
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. In fact, she spent scarcely a decade of her life unmarried before the death of her fourth and final husband in ...
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). Their son Henry was born in January 1457, three months after ...
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Lady Margaret Beaufort. Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses. She was the mother of Henry VII and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty…. Often referred to as the matriarch of the Tudors, Margaret Beaufort was a powerful member of the royal household and an influential figure in the greater ...
They were given the name Beaufort after Gaunt's castle in the Champagne region of France. Margaret married firstly John de la Pole (marriage dissolved 1453), secondly Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (eldest son of Owen Tudor and Queen Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V), thirdly Sir Henry Stafford and lastly Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby. She ...
Since Edmund had little property of his own, the sooner Margaret gave him a child, the better, especially given the escalating political crisis. Six months before Margaret’s marriage, her uncle, Edmund Beaufort, 2 nd Duke of Somerset, had been killed at the 1 st battle of St Albans, which had resulted from the removal of Richard, Duke of York ...
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Jul 3, 2019 · Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor were married in 1455, likely in May. She was just twelve, and he was 13 years older than she was. They went to live on Edmund’s estate in Wales. It was common practice to wait to consummate a marriage, even if contracted at such a young age, but Edmund didn’t respect that custom.
