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Lady Margaret Beaufort was the daughter and sole heiress of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (1404–1444), a legitimised grandson of John of Gaunt (1st Duke of Lancaster and third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford, and John Beaufort's wife Margaret Beauchamp. Lady Margaret was born at Bletsoe ...
Margaret Beaufort was the second and youngest [2] daughter of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1371 – 16 March 1410), by his wife Margaret Holland (c. 1385/6 – c. 1439/40), the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent by his wife Alice Fitzalan. Her father, John Beaufort, was an illegitimate son of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of ...
Margaret Beaufort (c. 1408–1449), who married Thomas de Courtenay, 5th Earl of Devon. In 1399, she was invested as a Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.). [4] After her husband John Beaufort died in 1410 (in the Tower of London), she married his nephew Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387–1421), the son of King Henry IV. They ...
Margaret Beaufort (c. 1437 – 1474) was a younger daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Lady Eleanor Beauchamp. [1] Her father was leader of the Lancastrian side in the Wars of the Roses. [2] Margaret married Humphrey, eldest son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, who held the courtesy title of Earl of Stafford. [3]
Lady Margaret Beaufort was the widow successively of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (d.1456), by whom she was the mother of Henry Tudor, who in 1485 became King Henry VII (1485–1509); and secondly of Sir Henry Stafford (d.1471). Without issue.
The Beaufort Yale, an heraldic beast used as supporters of the escutcheon; The Forget-me-Not flower (Myosotis sylvatica), a reference to the heraldic motto of Lady Margaret Beaufort Souvent me Souvient ("I often remember"). [18] It is visible sculpted on the main gate of St John's College, Cambridge, founded by Lady Margaret Beaufort.
The White Queen. (TV series) The White Queen is a British historical drama television drama serial based on Philippa Gregory 's historical novel series The Cousins' War. [4] The first episode premiered on BBC One on 16 June 2013 in the UK. [5] The drama is set against the backdrop of the Wars of the Roses and presents the story of the women ...
St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, [4] is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511.