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On This Day In History . 23 April 1445 . King Henry VI married Margaret of Anjou . . ◼ Cardinal Beaufort & the Earl of Suffolk persuaded the king that the best way of pursuing peace with France was through a marriage with Margaret of Anjou, the niece of King Charles VII. Henry agreed, especially when he heard reports of Margaret’s stunning beauty, & sent Suffolk to negotiate with Charles, who agreed to the marriage on condition that he would not have to provide the customary dowry & instead would receive the lands of Maine & Anjou from the English. . ◼ These conditions were agreed to in the Treaty of Tours, but the cession of Maine & Anjou was kept secret from parliament, as it was known that this would be hugely unpopular with the English populace. . ◼ The marriage took place at Titchfield Abbey, Hampshire on 23 April 1445, one month after Margaret’s 15th birthday, Henry was 24. . ◼ They had one son, Edward of Westminster (b.13 October 1453 – 4 May 1471), also known as Edward of Lancaster. He married Anne Neville (later Queen of England as the wife of Richard III). He was killed at the Battle of Tewkesbury, during the War of the Roses, 4 May 1471, making him the only heir apparent to the English throne ever to die in battle. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1445 #RoyalWedding #KingofEngland #KingHenryVI #HenryVI #MargaretofAnjou #QueenMargaret #TitchfieldAbbey #History #EnglishMonarchy #Weddingday #historyinpictures #kingandqueen #Hampshire #BritishMonarchy #otd #OnThisDay #MedievalHistory #medieval #Medievalperiod #medievaltimes #medievalage #Wedding #HouseofLancaster #HouseofPlantagenet #d23apr (at Titchfield Abbey) https://www.instagram.com/p/COBlDf8sJqt/?igshid=18gywr956tuv8

On This Day In Royal History . 25 August 1482 . Margaret of Anjou died . . ◼ Margaret died in Anjou on 25 August 1482 at the age of 52. She was entombed next to her parents in Angers Cathedral, but her remains were removed & scattered by revolutionaries who ransacked the cathedral during the French Revolution. . ◼ Margaret of Anjou (b. 23 March 1430) was the wife of King Henry VI of England. She was Queen of England from 1445 to 1461 & again from 1470 to 1471. . ◼ Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples and Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. . ◼ She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses & at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. . ▪️ Due to her husband’s frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, & thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, & caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (aged 17), at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. . ◼ Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, & she died there at the age of 52. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1482 #MargaretofAnjou #QueenofEngland #HouseofValoisAnjou #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #Otd #Thisday #TitchfieldAbbey #HenryVI #KingHenryVI #Plantagenets #thequeen #HouseofLancaster #Medieval #MedievalHistory #Anjou #warsoftheroses #HouseofPlantagenet #History #Royalty #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D25Aug (at Anjou) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUyvQlDFEv/?igshid=xpi56bvte8iq

On This Day In Royal History . 23 March 1430 . Margaret of Anjou was born . . ◼ Margaret was born on 23 March 1430 at Pont-à-Mousson in the Duchy of Lorraine, an imperial fief east of France ruled by a cadet branch of the French kings, the House of Valois-Anjou. . 👑 Margaret of Anjou was the wife of King Henry VI of England. . ◼ As such, she was Queen of England from 1445 to 1461 & again from 1470 to 1471. Born in the Duchy of Lorraine, into the House of Valois-Anjou, Margaret was the second eldest daughter of René I of Naples & Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine. . ◼ She was one of the principal figures in the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses & at times personally led the Lancastrian faction. . ◼ Due to her husband’s frequent bouts of insanity, Margaret ruled the kingdom in his place. It was she who called for a Great Council in May 1455 that excluded the Yorkist faction headed by Richard, Duke of York, & thus provided the spark that ignited a civil conflict that lasted for over thirty years, decimated the old nobility of England, & caused the deaths of thousands of men, including her only son Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. . ◼ Margaret was taken prisoner by the victorious Yorkists after the Lancastrian defeat at Tewkesbury. In 1475, she was ransomed by her cousin, King Louis XI of France. She went to live in France as a poor relation of the French king, & she died there at the age of 52 on 25 August 1482. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #Thisdayinhistory #TheYear1430 #MargaretofAnjou #QueenMargaret #QueenConsort #QueenofEngland #KingHenryVI #HenryVI #waroftheroses #HouseofValoisAnjou #thequeen #RoyalFamily #historyfacts #HouseofLancaster #History #England #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #D23Mar #OnThisDay #RoyalHistory #TheQueen #HistoricEngland #historyfacts #warsoftheroses #Consort #Anjou #Angevins #KingofEngland (at Lorraine, France) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-Fu2fPD-Dr/?igshid=1b2qc5duzef6m

you wont believe the dark history of british king henry vi who was overthrown and lost his life allegedly due to the curse of a preserved ear that was said to have been kept in a jar by a scorned servant and they say 25000 people died because of itwatch full video: https://youtu.be/ASPA0m5Qx8U?list=PLjBgcvtYPpORE75rfTGw-tot-YdUQkOvo

On This Day In History . 21st May 1471 . King Henry VI died . . ◼ Henry VI was imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he died during the night of 21 May 1471. In all likelihood, Henry's opponents had kept him alive up to this point rather than leave the Lancasters with a far more formidable leader in Henry's son Edward. According to the 'Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV', an official chronicle favourable to Edward, Henry died of melancholy on hearing news of the Battle of Tewkesbury and his son's death. . ⬛ It is widely suspected, however, that Edward IV, who was re-crowned the morning following Henry's death, had in fact ordered his murder. . ◼ Sir Thomas More's History of Richard III explicitly states that Richard killed Henry, an opinion he might have derived from Commynes' Memoir (ed. Blanchard, vol. I, page 204). Another contemporary source, Wakefield's Chronicle, gives the date of Henry's death as 23 May, on which date Richard is known to have been away from London. . ◼ King Henry VI was originally buried in Chertsey Abbey; then, in 1484, his body was moved to St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, by Richard III. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #ThisDayInHistory #TheYear1471 #HenryVI #KingHenryVI #HouseofLancaster #Lancastrian #WaroftheRoses #Monarchy #Royalty #History #historyfacts #theking #Lancaster #EdwardIV #RichardIII #EnglishMonarchy #Onthisday #toweroflondon #KingofEngland #BritishMonarchy #d21May #Royalhistory #Windsorcastle #thetower #Londonhistory (at Tower of London) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxuq1BDl0La/?igshid=1j4zt6lsqh6nb