![]() ![]() ![]() Charles was pro-English, and wished to make an English marriage and alliance against the French. The situation had changed since 1454: Charles was now highly respected by his father, who had in his old age entrusted the rule of Burgundy to his son. She had borne Charles only a daughter, Mary, which made it an imperative for him to remarry and father a son. Margaret, being a useful bargaining tool to her family, was still unmarried at age 19, when Isabella of Bourbon died in September 1465. Philip had Charles betrothed to Isabella of Bourbon, the daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, and Agnes of Burgundy, in late March 1454, and the pair were married on 31 October 1454. The negotiations petered out, however, due to power struggles in England, and the preference of Charles's father, Philip the Good, for a French alliance. The Duke of York, by contrast, shared Burgundy's enmity towards the French, and preferred the Burgundians.īecause of this, when the Duke of York came to power in 1453–1454, during Henry VI's first period of insanity, negotiations were made between himself and Isabella for a marriage between Charles the Bold, then Count of Charolais, and one of York's unmarried daughters, of whom the 8-year-old Margaret was the youngest. ![]() Although the King of England, Henry VI, was the head of the House of Lancaster, his wife, Margaret of Anjou, was a niece of Burgundy's bitter enemy, Charles VII of France, and was herself an enemy of the Burgundians. By 1454, she favoured the House of York, headed by Margaret's father, Richard, 3rd Duke of York. ![]() For this reason she was prepared to favour any English faction which was willing to favour Burgundy. She believed that Burgundian trade, from which the Burgundian State drew its vast wealth, depended upon friendly relations with England. As a granddaughter of John of Gaunt, she was consequently sympathetic to the House of Lancaster. Young Margaret of York in a drawing by Jacques de Boucq (1520-1573) taken from a contemporary portrait.ĭuchess Isabella of Burgundy, the mother of Charles the Bold, was, through her blood ties and her perception of Burgundian interests, pro-English. ( December 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Love her or hate her she was a very strong and determined woman.This section does not cite any sources. Margaret Beaufort is famous as much for her piety and gifts to churches and collages as she is for being domineering, pushy and intimidating, she was a force to be reckoned with, but her achievements prove that medieval women did not always take the back seat to men. She also disliked the fact that she had to adhere to court protocol and walk behind the queen and was probably responsible for the banishment of Elizabeth Woodville in 1487. Henry was said to have been a devoted son, his death in the June of 1509 was probably the beginning of the end for Margaret as she was dead only two months later. In Henry VII's court, Margaret liked to be referred to as 'My Lady the King's Mother' she intensely disliked the fact that she was of a lower status than both Elizabeth of York, Henry's queen and her mother Elizabeth Woodville, the widow of Edward IV. Margaret's third husband was Humphrey, Duke of Buckingham, their marriage was said to be a happy one. Although Margaret never recognised it as a marriage she was firstly married to John de la Pole, the son of William de la Pole and Alice Chaucer. Thirty years later, Henry was aided at the Battle of Bosworth by Thomas Stanley, her fourth husband whose family famously stood and watched the battle, deciding at the last moment to take the side of the Lancastrian's against Richard III's Yorkist forces. The birth of Henry, while Margaret was just a child herself, did irreparable damage, and this could account for the fact that she never gave birth again. Margaret was soon pregnant and gave birth to the future Henry VII a year later. In 1455, at the age of just twelve years old Margaret had married Edmund Tudor as her second husband. ![]()
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