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Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou (1430–1482) was the daughter of René, Duke of Anjou (also Duke of Bar, Lorraine, Calabria, Count of Provence and Piedmont, and titular King of Naples, Sicily and Jerusalem), and wife of King Henry VI of England.
She issued her Charter to establish the Queen’s College of St Margaret and St Bernard on 15 April 1448, the same day as the foundation stone was laid by her chamberlain.
Her heraldic arms, derived from those of her father René, became the basis of the Arms of Queens’ College.
The connection with her is remembered in the name of the Angevin Room at Queens’.
Images of Margaret of Anjou
As far as is known, Margaret did not sit for a formal portrait during her lifetime, so we have no images of her that we know to have been intended to be life-like. We have various other images purporting to be of her, but we do not know for sure to what extent they were life-like, or whether instead they were merely images of symbolic queens given her name.
The image above is a detail of f. 2v. from British Library Royal MS 15 E VI, the , 1444–45,
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Margaret of Anjou
Queen of England 1445–1461, 1470–1471
For the 13th-century French countess, see Margaret, Countess of Anjou.
Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René of AnjouKing of Naples, and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine.
Margaret was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses and at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. Some of her contemporaries, such as the Duke of Suffolk, praised "her valiant courage and undaunted spirit" and the 16th-century historian Edward Hall described her personality in these terms: "This woman excelled all other, as well in beauty and favour, as in wit and policy, and was of stomach and courage, more like to a man, than a woman".[1]
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Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Anjou was the Queen of Henry VI and was the main champion of the rights of the Lancastrians during the War of the Roses. Henry VI was a kindly, but weak-willed king, and allowed most of the business of the state to be conducted by his counselors and regents. Margaret was not at first influential in his government, but after the birth of Prince Edward, she became the most important champion of her son's claim to the throne. Henry VI was sickly, and prior to the birth of Edward, a plan was in place that provided for the Duke of York, to succeed to the throne at the death of Henry VI. The birth of a heir on the Lancaster side threw a monkey-wrench into the Yorkish plans, and ultimately precipitated the fratricidal war that brought the 330 year Plantagenet Dynasty to an end.
A few minor battles were fought when Prince Edward was only a few years old, but the war did not break out in earnest until 1459. At that point most of the English nobles declared for either the Yorks or Lancastrian
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