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    Lady Margaret Beaufort (pronounced /ˈboʊfərt/ BOH-fərt or /ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses...
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    Beaufort and his wife Margaret Holland, the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice FitzAlan, had six children. His granddaughter Lady...
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    Henry VI. The eventual heiress of the Beaufort family was Lady Margaret Beaufort, only daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, who married Edmund...
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  • Graves as Lord Stanley, the fourth husband of Lady Margaret Beaufort Amanda Hale as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, a great-granddaughter...
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    meaning "I often remember" or "Think of me often", the motto of Lady Margaret Beaufort, who founded Christ's College and St John's College at Cambridge...
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  • Malpas. Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury. She married secondly, in 1439, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom she had one daughter: Lady Margaret...
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    St John's College, Cambridge, England. The club is named after Lady Margaret Beaufort, founder of the College. LMBC was founded in 1825 by twelve members...
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    John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, a relative of the king's mother Lady Margaret Beaufort; in this second marriage, Cecily gave birth to two daughters. In...
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    Elizabeth was forced to yield pre-eminence to Henry VII's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort; her influence on events in these years, and her eventual departure...
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    of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation...
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    Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, at Westminster Abbey. New research published in 2019 has identified a portrait of Lady Margaret Beaufort...
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    de Berkeley. Margaret Beaufort (c. 1408–1449), who married Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon. In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order...
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  • niece of Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots and a cousin to Lady Margaret Beaufort (mother of King Henry VII). By her mother, Lady Margaret was a niece of...
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  • Margaret Beaufort (c. 1437 – 1474) was a younger daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp. Her father was leader of...
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    Amid the chaos, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III through Lady Margaret Beaufort and a veteran Lancastrian, returned from exile with an army and...
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    Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (category Beaufort family)
    Castle, London, and ran a successful estate. He was married to Lady Margaret Beaufort, after her first marriage was annulled. Prior to the start of the...
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    Duke of Leicester Isabella Brownson as Lady Katherine Grey, Jane's younger sister Robyn Betteridge as Lady Margaret Grey, Jane's youngest sister Máiréad...
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  • until 1466 when Lady Margaret Beaufort and her third husband, Sir Henry Stafford obtained the Manor by royal grant. Margaret Beaufort was the mother of...
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    of Beaufort. Its connection with the British monarchy began with Henry VII in 1485. Henry Tudor’s mother, Lady Margaret (1443–1509), was a Beaufort, and...
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  • of Oxford. The professorship was founded from the benefaction of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443–1509), mother of Henry VII. Its holders were all priests until...
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    Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (category Beaufort family)
    again occupying the English throne, he married his second wife Lady Margaret Beaufort, whose son, Henry Tudor, was the leading Lancastrian claimant. He...
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    Victoria Constance Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, CStJ (formerly Lady Mary Cambridge, née Princess Mary of Teck; 12 June 1897 – 23 June 1987) was...
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    Cambridge. It was founded initially as a readership in divinity by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII, in 1502. Since its re-endowment at the...
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    granted a new royal charter, was given a substantial endowment by Lady Margaret Beaufort, and changed its name to Christ's College, becoming the twelfth...
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    Buckingham, their future brother-in-law King Henry VII, or his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, among others. It has also been suggested that one or both princes...
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    to lend credence to this hypothesis." Compare with the motto of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1441/3-1509), Me Sovent Sovant (Souvent me souviens, "Often I remember")...
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    was a maternal nephew of Lady Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick. He was a paternal second cousin to Lady Margaret Beaufort and Richard Neville, 16th...
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    the throne. From the eldest son, John, descended a granddaughter, Lady Margaret Beaufort, whose son, later King Henry VII of England, would nevertheless...
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    He was the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a descendant of John of Gaunt, son of King Edward III, and founder...
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    service to celebrate the centenary of Lady Margaret School at Westminster Abbey (the resting place of Lady Margaret Beaufort) on Tuesday 17 October 2017. The...
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