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On This Day In History . 29 June 1644 . Battle of Cropredy Bridge . . King Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge, the last battle won by an English King on English soil. . ◼ The Battle of Cropredy Bridge was a battle of the English Civil Wars, fought on 29 June 1644 between a Parliamentarian army under Sir William Waller & the Royalist army of King Charles I. . ◼ After a Parliamentarian attack on the Royalist rearguard was repulsed, Waller's army became demoralised & ineffective, allowing the King to retrieve the Royalists' fortunes after other defeats during the earlier part of the year. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1644 #d29jun #CivilWar #EnglishCivilWar #CropredyBridge #Royalists #Parliamentarians #Royalist #KingofEngland #CharlesI #CharlesIofEngland #KingCharlesI #HouseOfStuart #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #onthisday #instahistory #historyfacts #RoyalHistory (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzS5z92g_Zc/?igshid=1sckuxobzt18r

On This Day In History . 29 June 1509 . Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby died . . ◼ The Countess died in the Deanery of Westminster Abbey on 29 June 1509. This was the day after her grandson's (Henry VIII) 18th birthday. . ◼ She is buried in the Henry VII Lady Chapel of the Abbey, in a black marble tomb topped with a bronze gilded effigy and canopy. She is now situated between the later graves of William and Mary & the tomb of Mary, Queen of Scots. . About Margaret ; . ◼ Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (born.31 May 14, at Bletsoe Castle, Bedfordshire), was the mother of King Henry VII & paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England. . ◼ She was the daughter of Margaret Beauchamp of Bletsoe and John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset. Margaret's father was a great-grandson of King Edward III through his third surviving son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. . ◼ She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses & an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor. . ◼ She is credited with the establishment of two prominent Cambridge colleges, founding Christ's College in 1505 & beginning the development of St John's College, which was completed posthumously by her executors in 1511. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1509 #d29jun #LadyMargaretBeaufort #MargaretBeaufort #CountessofRichmondandDerby #History #EnglishMonarchy #HouseofTudor #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #instahistory #onthisday #HenryVII #HenryVIII #Tudors (at Westminster Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzS5f0ngqtx/?igshid=107s31drrdv3m