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    Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: /ˈboʊfərt/ BOH-fərt or /ˈbjuːfərt/ BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of...
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    Margaret's mother was Alice FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster. Margaret married John Beaufort, 1st...
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  • Other people called Margaret Beaufort include: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon (c. 1409–1449), daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset;...
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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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    Scots. Thomas Beaufort, Count of Perche (1405 – 3 October 1431) Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406 – 22 May 1455) Margaret Beaufort, Countess of...
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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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  • Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Devon (c. 1409 – 1449)[citation needed] was a great-granddaughter of King Edward III (1327–1377). Margaret Beaufort was...
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  • story follows three women, Elizabeth Woodville (Rebecca Ferguson), Margaret Beaufort (Amanda Hale) and Anne Neville (Faye Marsay), who manipulate events...
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    that Edmund 'Tudor' and Margaret Beaufort were first cousins and that the royal house of 'Tudor' sprang in fact from Beauforts on both sides." Edmund received...
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    become Queen of France. Margaret was baptised in St. Margaret's, Westminster on St Andrew's Day. She was named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond...
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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, founder of the House of Lancaster...
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    John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, 3rd Earl of Somerset, KG (25 March 1404 – 27 May 1444) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred...
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    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 1499...
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  • John, who married David Malpas. Margaret St John, Abbess of Shaftesbury. She married secondly, in 1439, John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, by whom she...
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    Amid the chaos, Henry Tudor, a descendant of Edward III through Lady Margaret Beaufort, returned from exile with an army and killed Richard at Bosworth Field...
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    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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    IV, Edward V and Richard III. Through his great-granddaughter Lady Margaret Beaufort he was also an ancestor of Henry VII, who married Edward IV's daughter...
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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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    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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    and Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset developed a fierce political rivalry and jostled for power in Henry's government. Queen Margaret did not remain...
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    Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter. On 1 November 1455, John Beaufort's granddaughter, Margaret Beaufort, married Henry VI's maternal half-brother Edmund Tudor...
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    Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (26 January 1436[citation needed] – 15 May 1464) was an important Lancastrian military commander during the English...
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    source, Polydore Vergil, Elizabeth's mother made an alliance with Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry Tudor, later King Henry VII, who presented himself...
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  • as Susanna Isabella Brownson as Lady Katherine Grey Robyn Betteridge as Margaret Grey Henry Ashton as Lord Stan Dudley Abbie Hern as Bess Christian Patterson...
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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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    for their son, James V of Scotland Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482), wife of King Henry VI of England Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, (1443–1509)...
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    could not ascend the throne: John (c. 1371/1372–1410)—grandfather of Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII's mother. Henry (1375–1447) Thomas (1377–1427) Joan (1379–1440)—Joan's...
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    at Tewkesbury, deployed against the Lancastrian vanguard under Edmund Beaufort, 4th Duke of Somerset, on 4 May 1471, and his role two days later, as Constable...
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    had been married off as an infant to Margaret Beaufort, placing Courtenay close to the English king's Beaufort kinsmen. Due to this connection, Courtenay...
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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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