Margaret of Anjou
Also known as Margaret, Queen consort of England, La petite créature, Queen Margaret of England
15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
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Margaret of Anjou was an English queen in the 15th century who married King Henry VI and played a significant political role during a turbulent period of English history. She is remembered as an influential and controversial figure who became deeply involved in royal governance and the conflicts that tore apart the English nobility during the Wars of the Roses.
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- Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington, and others, written in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI
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- Reign
- 23 April 1445 – 4 March 1461 3 October 1470 – 11 April 1471
- Coronation
- 30 May 1445
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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 Anjou, King 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".
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