Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
By Elizabeth Norton.
Description
First-ever biography of Lady Margaret Beaufort. Born in the midst of the Wars of the Roses, Margaret Beaufort became the greatest heiress of her time. She survived a turbulent life, marrying four times and enduring imprisonment before passing her claim to the crown of England to her son, Henry VII, the first of the Tudor monarchs. Margaret’s royal blood placed her on the fringes of the Lancastrian royal dynasty. After divorcing her first husband at the age of ten, she married the king’s half-brother, Edmund Tudor, becoming a widow and bearing her only child, the future Henry V...
ISBN(s)
1445601427, 9781445601427
