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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

We will have another son Maggie, I can feel it.

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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

Although she never officially ruled as a crowned queen of the entire union, Margaret I was the undisputed power behind the throne. Her intelligence, determination, and strategic vision earned her a reputation as one of history’s greatest female rulers, proving that medieval politics was not only shaped by kings—but also by queens who knew how to win the game of power.

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On This Day In History . 17 November 1093 . Saint Margaret of Scotland died at Edinburgh Castle . . About Saint Margaret; . ◼ Saint Margaret of Scotland was born around the year 1045, she was also known as Margaret of Wessex, & was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". . ◼ Margaret was born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling & uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret & her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. . ◼ Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming Scottish queen. She was a pious woman, & among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry & North Queensferry their names. . ◼ Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (Edgar, King of Scotland r.1097–1107 ; Alexander I of Scotland r.1107–1124 ; David I of Scotland r.April or May 1124 – 24 May 1153, or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) & of a queen consort of England, Matilda who married Henry I of England. . ◼ According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, & her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation & subsequently lost. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1093 #d17nov #queenMargaret #SaintMargaret #HouseofWessex #MargaretofWessex #History #EnglishMonarchy #ScottishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #Scotland #Edinburgh #EdinburghCastle #QueenofScotland #OnThisDay #Historic #thequeen #historyfacts #Anglosaxons #AngloSaxon (at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4-fuQMgGYM/?igshid=1ekbkhjdmbv7v

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