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CITAZIONEContessa di Richmond e Derby (1443-1509), figlia di John B., duca di Somerset, sposò Edmund Tudor, conte di Richmond, fratellastro di Enrico VI, e fu madre (1457) del futuro Enrico VII. In seconde nozze sposò Henry Stafford e, alla morte di questo, lord Stanley, poi conte di Derby.
treccaniCITAZIONEThe Countess of Richmond & Derby, commonly called Lady Margaret Beaufort, was the daughter of John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset (son of John of Gaunt by Catherine Swynford), and his wife, Margaret Beauchamp. At the age of about seven, she became the child bride of John De La Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, but the union was later dissolved. The Beaufort stock, though originally bastard, was legitimized by an Act of Parliament in Richard II’s reign. Thus, on the failure of the heirs of King Henry VI, Margaret's claim to the crown of England became quite a possible one (1471). Such as it was, however, the Lancastrian title had originally rested, if on anything beyond usurpation or parliamentary election, on the exclusion of females.
Henry VI always looked upon the Beauforts as possible heirs and, in 1455, married the twelve-year-old Margaret to his own maternal half-brother, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond (then aged twenty-five). Her son, afterwards Henry VII, was born in 1456, and her husband died in the same year. She, soon afterward, married Henry Stafford, the second son of the Duke of Buckingham, and submitted to the Yorkist rule; but, after the Battle of Tewkesbury, she was obliged to send her son, Henry, now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refuge in Brittany.
Margaret's third husband was a pronounced Yorkist, Thomas, Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl of Derby; but his final defection from Richard III on the field of Bosworth secured the victory to his stepson, Henry VII. Margaret, though she seldom appeared at her son's court, remained, until her death, his constant correspondent and one of his wisest advisers. She took vows of religion in 1504, but continued to live out of a nunnery, although she had founded several.
Her great glory is, however, her foundation of the two Colleges of Christ's and St. John's at Cambridge, and of the' Lady Margaret' professorships of Divinity at both Universities. She was instigated to these foundations by the advice of John Fisher, afterwards Bishop of Rochester, one of the glories, as indeed Margaret herself also was, of Renaissance learning in England. Margaret was an ardent patron of the Early English Press and her grandson Henry VIII's love of learning and books was no doubt a direct inheritance from her.
Vi passo un pippone su Margaret da un libro BENEDETTO che ho adorato: Tudor, the Family Story di Leanda de Lisle.CITAZIONEMargaret had survived the dangers of her son’s birth. She had helped protect him during the years that followed, and risked her own life to conspire on his behalf against Richard III. In promoting her son as king, she had sacrificed her own superior claim to the throne. But although she accepted male authority she had wielded considerable influence. Margaret had used her experience of English court ceremony to place the Tudors firmly within royal tradition, drawing up the orders for future royal christenings and funerals. Her best servants became the king’s, and he had continued to trust her judgement to the end. No wonder she came to sign herself in the regal style, Margaret R.
The obituary sermon Fisher gave her noted that Margaret would be greatly missed. Her female friends and relations, ‘whom she had loved so tenderly’, her priests and servants, ‘to whom she was full dear’, indeed, ‘all England for her death had cause for weeping’. Margaret had been an important patroness to the universities, especially Cambridge; she had also been generous to the poor, while her passion for chivalric virtues had, Fisher said, made her an ‘example of honour’ to the nobility. It was her spirituality that he admired most, later commenting that although ‘she chose me as her director . . . I gladly confess that I learnt more from her great virtue than I ever taught her.’ If Henry VII had had a good death, reconciled to God, Fisher believed Margaret had led a good life. In later generations, however, Margaret’s reputation would fall victim to religious and sexual prejudice.
In the post-Reformation England of the seventeenth century Margaret’s spirituality came to be judged mere superstition and her intelligence and toughness of character were regarded with equal suspicion. The antiquarian Sir George Buck condemned Margaret Beaufort as a ‘politic and subtle lady’ who had killed the princes in the Tower with sorcery and poison to clear the way for her son. That Margaret was responsible for the princes’ deaths is a theory becoming fashionable again and remains linked to cultural prejudices. Margaret’s support for her son had been construed as those of an obsessively ambitious mother, yet for her generation she was fulfilling a duty. She was honour bound to help him regain his rightful inheritance, and later to help him restore the House of Lancaster, into which she had been born. Her strict religious devotions are, to modern sensibilities, strange, even fanatical, but amongst royal and noble women of her time they were commonplace: an effort to look beyond the vicious and ruthless political culture into which they were born, to understand humility, and the nobility of Christ’s example.
The absence of portraits of Margaret Beaufort as an attractive young woman to counterbalance the images of her in old age have helped give credit to the sinister reputation she has gained. But the face that stands out from her story is not that of the widow with the hooded eyes, praying amidst the riches of a royal chapel and seen in her portraits, but a young girl, riding in the biting wet of a Welsh winter, to Pembroke Castle where she must deliver her child. Now it was for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren to continue the Tudor story.
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CITAZIONELady Margaret Beaufort depicted in a stained glass window in St Botolph’s Church, Boston.
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Che firma complicata .....bella eh però !
Comunque di lei ne so così poco ;__; devo ringraziare White queen ! Però il fatto che fosse la nonna di Enricone mi fa ben sperare nella sua cazzutaggine ! Però ho letto su wiki la storia di quando incinta dovette scappare tipo perché era rimasta vedova giovanissima a quattordici anni ed era già incinta di Enrico VII. -
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Si era sposata giovanissima, 12/13 anni ed era rimasta subito incinta, poi il marito è morto e lei ha partorito Enrico che è stato il suo unico figlio . -
.CITAZIONEChe firma complicata .....bella eh però !
Non ho ancora decifrato se sia davvero Margaret R come dice sempre nel libro XD. -
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Guarda che è difficile arrivare a capire che quella è la firma...sembrano caratteri arcaici XDD . -
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Diciamo che sulla firma Woodville-Beaufort 1-0 XD . -
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Comunque ma su Jasper si sa niente ?? *appassionata* Ci sono le prove che abbiano avuto una simpatia oppure è tutto un volo pindarico ?? . -
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Secondo me se l'è inventato la Gregory come Riccardo III con Elizabeth di York, però si sa mai.. Diana, aiutaci tu XD . -
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Nuuuu speriamo che sia esistito ! ;___; . -
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No cioè di esistere esisteva e s'è cresciuto Enrichino (da distinguere da Enricone) però la liaison con Margaret... Ci credo poco. però è romantica da immaginare XD . -
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Statua di Margaret all'università di Cambridge da lei patrocinata <3
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Grancontessa Mathilde.
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Di lei so' veramente poco! Bella la statua! 
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Cosa che non ci aspettavamo perché la Gregory ci ha gregoryzzato l'esistenza: il matrimonio di Margaret e Stafford fu piuttosto felice, con tanto di viaggi assieme e festeggiamento degli anniversari! .
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