Born in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Beaufort KG
and Margaret (Beauchamp) Welles
Sister of
Tacine (Beaufort) Grey [half], John St John KB [half], Edith (St John) Pole [half], Elizabeth (St John) le Scrope [half], Mary St John [half], Oliver St John [half], Margaret St John [half], Agnes (St John) Malpas [half] and John Welles [half]
Wife of
John (Pole) de la Pole KG
— married
7 Feb 1450 (to 6 Mar 1453) [location unknown]
Wife of
Edmund Tudor
— married
before 1455 in Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire, England
Wife of
Henry Stafford
— married
3 Jan 1458 in Maxstoke Castle, Warwickshire, England
Wife of
Thomas Stanley KG
— married
before 12 Jun 1472 in Bletsoe, Bedfordshire, England
Descendants 
Mother of
Henry (Tudor) of England
Died
at age 66
in Westminster Abbey (Cheyney Gate), London, Middlesex, England
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Biography
Margaret (Beaufort) Stanley is Notable.
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby b. 31 May 1443 at Bledsoe Bedfordshire.[1]
Paternally, Margaret Beaufort was the great-grand-daughter of John of Gaunt and Katheryn Swynford; by right of primogeniture she was the first in line of the Beaufort family, being the only legitimate child of the eldest son of the eldest son. But her main claim to fame is through her son by her second marriage, Henry Tudor.
Henry's father Edmond Tudor, was the son of Catherine of Valois and Owen Tudor. After he won at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and became Henry VII, king of England. ... Margaret was at her own height of power. And today, her blood continues to course through the veins of English monarchs.
Marriages
She married firstly, John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk and Alice Chaucer, between 28 Jan 1450 - 7 Feb 1450. Annulled before 24 March 1453[1]
She married secondly, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, son of Sir Owen Tudor and Catherine de France, 1 Nov 1455 Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire.[1][2]
She married thirdly, Henry Stafford, son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Lady Anne Neville, circa 1462.[3]
She married fourthly, Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby, son of Thomas Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley, and Jean Goushill, before Oct 1473 as his second wife.[3][4]
Death and Burial
Margaret died on 29 Jun 1504 age 61 Abbot's House, Cheyney Gates, Westminster and was buried in Westminster Abbey [3] (Henry VII Chapel).
In 1472 Margaret made a will instructing her burial at Bourne Priory in Lincolnshire, together with the translated remains of her husband Edmund Tudor (d.1456), and made provision for their tombs. Bourne was an Augustinian house located in the Holland manor inherited from her paternal grandmother, Margaret Holland, and the burial place of her great-grandfather, Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent (d.1397). The translation of Edmund Tudor's remains was not carried out; following the accession of Henry VII in 1485 Margaret's burial plans became more ambitious. In 1496 Henry VII began the rebuilding of the Chapel of St. Edward at Windsor to house his tomb and the shrine of his uncle, Henry VI. The following year Margaret proposed the foundation of her own Windsor chantry. In 1498 the Privy Council granted a petition for Henry VI's remains to be moved to Westminster Abbey. The following year Margaret cancelled her Windsor chantry, and had its endowments transferred to Westminster. Margaret had been granted a daily mass in the Confessor's Chapel in 1496, and in 1506 she founded a chantry in Henry VII's new chapel for herself, her husbands, parents and ancestors, her daughter-in-law Elizabeth of York, and Elizabeth's deceased issue.[5]
Margaret Beaufort died at Westminster on 29 June 1509, and on 9 July was buried in Henry VII's new chapel as instructed by her will made the previous year. There are no records of the funeral, although the abbey was still in possession of Margaret's black hearse cloth with cross of gold in 1536. The contract for commissioning her tomb was dated 23 November 1511 and detailed her effigy and tomb-chest. The tomb-chest and effigy must have been completed by December 1526, but payments for other works associated with the tomb were being made as late as 1529. Margaret Beaufort's tomb stands in the south aisle of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster. With the exception of the effigy-plate, it has survived intact. Margaret's effigy shows her wearing a pedimented hood and wimple, with long mantle and hands clasped in prayer. Her status as the mother of a king was denoted by a coronet, since lost. The figure is almost certainly a portrait, probably modeled from a death mask, like the effigy of Henry VII.[6]
Achievements
- 1488: Lady Companion, Order of the Garter (L.G.) in 1488.
- Founded Christ's College and St. John's College at Cambridge.
Research Notes
- Peidgree Resrouce File: Margaret BEAUFORT[7]
- Domvile, Margaret, Lady, b. 1840. The king's mother : memoir of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby. Published by London : Burns & Oates, 1899. archive.org
- Halsted, Caroline Amelia, d. 1851. Life of Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry the Seventh. Published by London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 1839. archive.org
- Faulkner, Ann E.. Historical Dictionary of Late Medieval England, 1272-1485. United Kingdom: Greenwood Press, 2002. google.com/books/edition
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 Vol. V, TUDOR 13, p. 203
- ↑ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 Vol. III, LANCASTER 12, p. 516
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 Vol. V, TUDOR 13, p. 204
- ↑ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City: the author, 2013 Vol. V, STANLEY 15, p. 29
- ↑ Duffy, Mark, Royal Tombs of Medieval England, Wiltshire: Tempus Publishing, Inc., 2003, Archive.org, pp. 272-73
- ↑ Duffy, Mark, Royal Tombs of Medieval England, Wiltshire: Tempus Publishing, Inc., 2003, Archive.org, pp. 273-74
- ↑ Wikipedia; Pedigree Resource File CD 49. Salt Lake City: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002. Jun 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson. Ancestral File Number. Jun 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson. Ancestral File (TM). LDS. June 1998. Jun 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson.
See also:
- Wikipedia: Lady Margaret Beaufort
- Wikidata: Item Q229202, en:Wikipedia
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“One Book of Hours has been attributed to Richard III. Now in Lambeth Palace Library, it is not a very elaborate example, but has clearly passed through a number of hands. At some point it was in the possession of Margaret Beaufort, Henry VII’s mother, who had a considerable reputation for piety; indeed like many late medieval figures, she is depicted holding a book of hours in a posthumous portrait. The idea that it was taken from Richard’s tent at Bosworth is speculative, but there is a clear link with the king: the book contains a prayer added at some point which contains his name.”
The first marriage stated to John (Pole) de la Pole KG would have taken place when she was 7.