![]() ![]() ![]() The age of consent for girls was twelve, but that didn’t mean that everyone would approve of their marriage. Edmund didn’t wait to consummate his marriage to the young heiress. ![]() She was promised to the Earl of Richmond, Edmund Tudor who also obtained her wardship. With tensions brewing between the King and the Duke of York, it became imperative that she married someone loyal to the King. After Suffolk’s death in 1450, Margaret was brought before the King and his councilors to swear against her marriage. If the boys or girls were wealthy heiress their guardians would benefit by marrying them off to their heirs, thus making themselves richer. But people forget that this was an ambitious and ruthless era. Some have accused Suffolk of coveting her wardship so he could get closer to the throne by marrying the young heiress (and also the King’s cousin) to his son John. King Henry VI.Īfter her father died, Henry VI decreed that her mother couldn’t take care of her (despite that she had other children she had taken care of before Margaret was born) and gave her custody to William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk. Furthermore, she continued with her religious devotion and did as so many others of her predecessors (Elizabeth Woodville, Cecily Neville, royal mothers themselves too) had done, endowing universities and adding new ones.īut before Margaret’s rise to fame, her road ahead was filled with many obstacles. For those that see her as a tyrannical being, I should point out that when her son became King, she commended some of her servants who had served the previous King –Richard III- for their loyalty to him. The real Margaret Beaufort was human and as all humans, a very complex figure. Even if we find the bodies –as some historians are pressing the public to rise up in their defense, to call for the urn that was uncovered under the steps in the Tower in the seventeenth century to be examined to see once and for all if that is them- it won’t give us any answers). (We will never know what happened to the Princes. Suddenly she was being accused of using witchcraft against her enemies and the last Plantagenet King who had previously been demonized by the Tudors, was now idolized with Margaret being the main culprit behind the Princes in the Tower’s disappearance. As a result, Margaret turned from devoted mother of the Tudor Dynasty’s first monarch, scholar, and religious matron to wicked stepmother. Henry was a man who was going to get what he wanted and in the end that is what happened. Never mind that in another book, it said it was okay. Henry believed his first marriage was tainted because he had married his brother’s wife and according to Leviticus this was a sin. Suddenly one day, Henry VIII decides to change everything, claiming that his conscience would not let him rest until he did what was right –and from his view this meant getting himself an annulment so he could marry Anne Boleyn. ![]() England had been largely Catholic for over a thousand years. The religious landscape of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries had changed. You might ask why would a man writing for two direct descendants of Henry VII would write against the mother of the Tudor Dynasty. One of her many critics was none other than Bacon who wrote during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. The White Queen plays feeds on negative rumors and propaganda written against Margaret during her lifetime and centuries after her death. It is a myth that Margaret was resentful of her family. Following his death and possible suicide, she acquired a new license to remarry four years later. On his death in 1437, she remarried to John Beaufort four years later. Margaret Beauchamp was firstly married to Sir Oliver St. Margaret grew very close to her maternal family, her half-siblings and her step-family when her mother married for a third and last time. John Beaufort suffered from a terrible reputation and lacked leadership skills which, according to some of his contemporaries, led him to commit suicide when Margaret was only one. On the 31 st of May 1443 Margaret Beaufort was born at Bletsoe Castle, Bedforshire to Margaret Beauchamp and John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. ![]()
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