. Historical portraits ... ction, on the exclusionof females. Henry VI always looked upon the Beauforts as possibleheirs, and married Margaret in 1455 to his own half-brother, EdmundTudor, Earl of Richmond. Her son, afterwards Henry VII, was bornin 1456, and her husband died in the same year. She soon marrieda son of the Duke of Buckingham and submitted to the Yorkist rule;but after the battle of Tewkesbury she was obliged to send her sonHenry, now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refugein Brittany. Margarets third husband was a pronounced Yorkist,Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl o
. Historical portraits ... ction, on the exclusionof females. Henry VI always looked upon the Beauforts as possibleheirs, and married Margaret in 1455 to his own half-brother, EdmundTudor, Earl of Richmond. Her son, afterwards Henry VII, was bornin 1456, and her husband died in the same year. She soon marrieda son of the Duke of Buckingham and submitted to the Yorkist rule;but after the battle of Tewkesbury she was obliged to send her sonHenry, now the sole hope of the Lancastrian cause, to seek refugein Brittany. Margarets third husband was a pronounced Yorkist,Lord Stanley, afterwards Earl of Derby; but his final defectionfrom Richard HI on the field of Bosworth secured the victory to hisstepson, Henry VII. Margaret, though she seldom appeared at hersons court, remained, until her death in the same year with himself,his constant correspondent and one of his wisest advisers. Shetook vows of religion in 1504, but continued to live out of a nunnery,although she had founded several. Her great glory is, however, J. S c2o - > 25 M < _ o 3
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