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Countess Margaretha Beaufort

Countess Margaretha Beaufort

Female 1453 - 1509  (56 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Margaretha Beaufort  [1, 2
    Prefix Countess 
    Birth 31 May 1453  Bledsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Gender Female 
    Death 29 Jun 1509  Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminsters, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Burial Westminster Abbey, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5932  Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Earl John Beaufort,   b. 1403   d. 1444 (Age 41 years) 
    Mother Margaret de Beauchamp,   b. Abt 1412, Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Aug 1482 (Age 70 years) 
    Marriage 1439 
    Family ID F2600  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Earl Edmund Tudor,   b. 1430   d. 3 Nov 1456 (Age 26 years) 
    Children 
    +1. King Henry VII Tudor,   b. 28 Jan 1457, Pembroke Castle, Wales Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Apr 1509, Richmond Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
    Family ID F2601  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Family 2 Henry Stafford,   b. Abt 1425   d. 1481 (Age 56 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1462  [1, 2
    Family ID F9728  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 3 Earl Thomas Stanley,   b. Abt 1435   d. 29 Jul 1504, Lathom, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1482 
    Family ID F9729  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2000 

    Family 4 Duke John I de la Pole,   b. 27 Sep 1442, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Oct 1491-27 Oct 1492, Wingfield, Suffolk, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 50 years) 
    Family ID F10164  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 31 May 2001 

  • Notes 
    • Countess of Richmond
      Founded Christ's & St. John's colleges, Cambridge.
      1/2 mystic, 1/2 dynast. Regarded her St. John 1/2 siblings as her closest kin.
      Forged the alliance between Lancastrians & Yorkists which toppled Richard III.
      Helped to finance her son's invasions in 1483-85.
      After Bosworth, she became the richest woman in England.

  • Sources 
    1. [S15] Desmond Seward, Wars of the Roses, (Penguin Books, New York 1995 ,), Houses of Lancaster, Beaufort & Tudor Genealogy Table (Reliability: 0).

    2. [S188] David Faris, Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1996), 1st ed pp 105-108 "FitzAlan" (Reliability: 0).

    3. [S15] Desmond Seward, Wars of the Roses, (Penguin Books, New York 1995 ,), p 27 (Reliability: 0).



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