If not for Margaret Beaufort, England’s most notorious dynasty ... Collyweston Palace hosted a veritable “who’s who” of Tudor England, from Henry VIII to Katherine Howard to Elizabeth ...

They were given the name Beaufort after Gaunt's castle in the Champagne region of France. Margaret married firstly John de la Pole (marriage dissolved 1453), secondly Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond ...

it likely would have rivaled many other impressive Tudor estates. “When Henry VII won the Battle of Bosworth, Lady Margaret Beaufort was gifted the site,” Close said. “In 1503, there was a ...

Margaret Beaufort was never queen ... may reasonably style Margaret the mother of the Tudor dynasty. Margaret was married to Edmund Tudor when she was only 12. She was both a mother and a widow ...

England’s most notorious dynasty owes much to the trials of a 13-year-old girl: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. On January 28, 1457, the young widow—her first husband, Edmund Tudor ...

She is also the author of a biography of Margaret Beaufort and four of Henry VIII’s wives, amongst other titles. Katharine of Aragon and the Tyranny of Henry VIII by Jackson Van Uden (4pm) ...

who wouldn’t have called themselves Tudor at all. So how did this titanic royal dynasty spring from these minor Welsh beginnings? Correction: In this episode, we said that Margaret Beaufort was ...

Lady Margaret Beaufort. The portcullis was the badge of the Beaufort family. Cambridge University art historian Dr Christina Faraday, who specialises in Tudor visual and material culture ...

The Tudor king Henry VII was descended in direct ... Edmund became earl of Richmond and was married to Margaret Beaufort, the great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, the progenitor of the house ...

Henry VII - born Henry Tudor - was born at Pembroke Castle in 1457, the son of Margaret Beaufort and Edmund Tudor. He went on to become the first Welshman to sit on the English throne. The 8ft ...

Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII and grandmother ... of York—is significant not only for its insights into Tudor history but also because of the unique nature of its discovery.