| Name |
Margaret BEAUFORT [1] |
| Prefix |
Lady |
| Suffix |
Duchess of Suffolk, Countess of Richmond and Derby |
| Birth |
31 May 1443 |
Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Biographical Note |
- 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 Tudor's death. A second marriage, to Sir Henry Stafford (from c. 1464 to 1471), was childless. After Stafford's death and sometime before 1473, she wed Thomas, Lord Stanley (afterward 1st Earl of Derby), who in 1485 helped her son Henry Tudor obtain the throne.
Margaret translated a number of devotional books and was a patron of the English printers William Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde. In 1502 she founded the Lady Margaret professorships of divinity at Oxford and Cambridge, and in 1505 she completed the endowment of Christ's College. By the provisions of her will, most of her estate was given to endow St. John's College, which was chartered in 1511.
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| Name |
Margaret of Lancaster |
| Death |
29 Jun 1509 |
Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England [1, 3, 4] |
- Margaret died the day following her grandson's 18th birthday, 5 days after his coronation and 2 months after the death of her son.
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| Burial |
Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England, 51.498910,-0.128280 [5] |
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Margaret_Beaufort_2
Tomb of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Westminster Abbey. Courtesy of Wikipedia. |
| Person ID |
I92302 |
Ancestral Trails |
| Last Modified |
12 Jul 2024 |
| Family 2 |
Edmund TUDOR, 1st Earl of Richmond, b. 1431 d. 3 Nov 1456, Carmarthen Castle, Wales,, 51.856,-4.316 (Age 25 years) |
| Marriage |
1 Nov 1455 [8, 9] |
- in 1452 Margaret Beaufort, aged nine years, was summoned to the court of her second cousin, King Henry. Some three years later, she was married to Edmund Tudor. She was twelve years old when she married, and pregnant a year later. The Wars of the Roses had begun. Edmund, a Lancastrian, was captured by the Yorkists in mid-1456. He was imprisoned at Carmarthen Castle in south Wales, where he died of the plague on 3 November 1456. His only child, the future King Henry VII, was born almost three months after his death.
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| Children |
| | 1. Henry VII TUDOR, King of England, b. 28 Jan 1457, Pembroke Castle, Pembroke, Wales, 51.677678,-4.920694 d. 21 Apr 1509, Richmond Palace, Surrey, England, 51.461100,-0.309385 (Age 52 years) |
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| Family ID |
F1485 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
15 Apr 2025 |
1443 - 1509 (66 years)
