Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty

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Margaret's extraordinarily close relationship with Henry, coupled with her role in political and ceremonial affairs, ensured that she was treated — and behaved — as a queen in all but name. Alison Weir, My lady the king's mother: images of Margaret Beaufort 16 September 2020; accessed 28 January 2022. Along the way, Margaret Beaufort schemes to get her beloved son, Henry Tudor, to become the next king of England.

When Henry Tudor defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field on August 22, 1485, the Tudor dynasty began and Margaret took up the new role as the King’s Mother. the second son of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, on 3 January 1458, at the age of fourteen. Together they conspired to supplant King Richard and by joint force replace him with Margaret's son, Henry Tudor.Tales of Jacquetta Woodville, Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret of Anjou, and Elizabeth of York tend to be favorites of those who read historical fiction. The Tudors believed they were building on the past to create something different- and better- even if they differed on how.

She never stopped plotting for her son, and when he finally invaded and rode onto Bosworth Field it was Margaret who provided the ally, the husband she had married for this very moment. The gilded bronze sculpture on the tomb depicts Margaret with her head resting on pillows and her hands raised in prayer, wearing garments characteristic of widowhood; the face was probably sculpted from a death mask. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.Are you quite sure it is not your own voice that you hear, speaking through the earthquake, wind and fire?

VERDICT A highly sympathetic, spirited portrait of a major figure of the late Plantagenet and early Tudor reigns. This was all she ever wanted, to see her son happy and alive, but for her to realize that even after the war there would be danger around every corner.In October, Beaufort's scheme proved unsuccessful; the Duke was executed and Tudor was forced back across the English Channel. Margaret Beaufort, a descendant and passionately loyal supporter of the House of Lancaster, was married, while still a child of twelve, to the king’s half-brother Edmund Tudor, as a way of endowing him with her enormous fortune and lands. Years of York forces fighting Lancastrian for power culminated in the Battle of Towton in 1461, where the Yorkists were victorious.