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Possible portrait of Margaret or her sister Mary.Painted by Bernhard Strigel, circa 1520.. Margaret was born on 28 November 1489 in the Palace of Westminster in London to King Henry VII and his wife, Elizabeth of York.
Mary Boleyn, also known as Lady Mary, [1] (c. 1499 [2] – July 1543) was the sister of English queen consort Anne Boleyn, whose family enjoyed considerable influence during the reign of King Henry VIII. Mary was one of the mistresses of Henry VIII for an unknown period. It has been rumoured that she bore two of the King's children, though ...
The Thistle and the Rose: The Sisters of Henry VIII. New York: Coward, McGann & Geoghegan. LCC 79-159754. Green, Mary Anne Everett (1854). Lives of the Princesses of England Vol. V. London: Henry Colburn; Perry, Maria (2000). The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France. Da Capo Press.
Sisters to the King: the tumultuous lives of Henry VIII's sisters – Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France. London: Andre Deutsch. ISBN 0233050906. (primarily on his wife, Mary Tudor) Read, Evelyn (1962). Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk: a portrait. London: Jonathan Cape. (primarily on his wife, Catherine) "Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk".
Mary Grey. Margaret and her husband were part of the group who accompanied Henry VIII's sister, Princess Mary, to France in the autumn of 1514, for the latter's wedding to King Louis XII of France. In October 1530, her husband died and she was given custody of all his property during their eldest son, Henry's minority. [8]
Both Margaret and Mary were daughters of Sir John Shelton and his wife Anne, the sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, the father of King Henry VIII's second Queen consort, Anne Boleyn. Margaret and Mary were thus first cousins of the Queen. [1] Margaret was the youngest of Sir John Shelton's daughters.
Born on 28 June 1491 at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich, Kent, Henry Tudor was the third child and second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. [7] Of the young Henry's six (or seven) siblings, only three – his brother Arthur, Prince of Wales, and sisters Margaret and Mary – survived infancy. [8]
Chart showing descent and progeny of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox. Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (8 October 1515 – 7 March 1578), was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and thus the granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and the half-sister of King James V.