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Second son of Owain Tudor and Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V for the circumstances of his parents' marriage, see the article on Owain Tudor. I hope that helps.Spouse: Catherine Stafford (née Woodville)Īrea of activity: Politics, Government and Political Movements Royalty and Society

While I was digging, I also found mention of him in a book “Campbell Tree” that also mentioned John Beaufort marrying Margaret Beauchamp with Margaret Beaufort being one of their children, so perhaps someone has put two and two together and got 5! They’re both mentioned within a few lines of each other and so must be married! I don’t know, but there certainly is no evidence for Margaret having been married to a Henry Hand. I know that when I was researching my family tree, the hints that came up were often incorrect. He married Lady Margaret Beaufort.” but in its biography of her, it then doesn’t mention him at all! The trouble with these types of sites is that they are only as accurate as the information provided by other users. I just googled the two names together to see what could be linking them and found mention of them being married on a site called Family Search: “SIR HENRY HAND was born about 1440 of Kent, England, to Sir Hand of Benenden (1420-) and Unknown. I’ve never come across a “Henry Hand” in relation to Margaret Beaufort. Died A.D.1509, III Kalends of July ”.Įxtract taken from On This Day in Tudor History by Claire Ridgway. The Latin inscription, written by Erasmus, translates as “Margaret of Richmond, mother of Henry VII, grandmother of Henry VIII, who gave a salary to three monks of this convent and founded a grammar school at Wimborne, and to a preacher throughout England, and to two interpreters of Scripture, one at Oxford, the other at Cambridge, where she likewise founded two colleges, one to Christ, and the other to St John, his disciple. Her tomb was sculpted by Pietro Torrigiano and features a portrait effigy of Margaret dressed in traditional widow’s dress, her head resting on two pillows decorated with the Tudor badge, her hands raised in prayer and the Beaufort family crest at her feet. Margaret was buried at Westminster Abbey in London, in the south aisle of Henry VII’s Chapel. She died just four days after enjoying the coronation celebrations of her grandson, Henry VIII, and Henry Parker, Lord Morley, who acted as her cupbearer at the coronation ceremonies, reported that “she took her infirmity with eating of a cygnet”. Lady Margaret Beaufort died 29th June 1509, aged sixty-six.

JASPER TUDOR AND HENRY VII INFLUENCE FREE

The Queen Elizabeth’s School, formally Wimborne Grammar School, came about as a result of her intention to build a free school in Wimborne, Dorset. She took an active interest in education and established the Lady Margaret’s Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University, refounded and added to God’s House, Cambridge, turning it into Christ’s College, and her estate founded St John’s College, Cambridge. Margaret was the Countess of Richmond and Derby but, after her son’s victory at Bosworth, was referred to as “My Lady the King’s Mother”, and refused to accept a lower status than the queen consort, Elizabeth of York. Margaret and Elizabeth Woodville co-plotted the marriage of Henry, Margaret’s son, and Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville’s daughter by Edward IV. Henry defeated Richard III and became Henry VII of England. She actively supported her son Henry Tudor’s claim to the throne, and was able to persuade her then husband, Thomas Stanley, and his brother to swap sides and support Henry at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Margaret was a powerful lady, and was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses between the Houses of York and Lancaster. She gave birth to him at the age of thirteen, and his father was Edmund Tudor. Margaret was married four times: c.1450 to John de la Pole, a marriage which was dissolved in 1453 (some say that the marriage never happened and was just a betrothal) 1453 to Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, eldest son of Owen Tudor and Catherine of Valois and half-brother of Henry VI 1462 to Henry Stafford, son of the 1st Duke of Buckingham and finally in 1472 to Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby and the Lord High Constable and King of Mann. Although a 1397 act of Parliament legitimized the children of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford, Henry IV declared that they could never inherit the throne. She was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, grandson of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his mistress (and eventual wife) Katherine Swynford. Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, and matriarch of the Tudor dynasty, was born at Bletsoe Castle in Bedfordshire on 31st May 1443.

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