annaofcleves:On this day in history, the 29ᵗʰ of June 1509, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Rich
annaofcleves:On this day in history, the 29ᵗʰ of June 1509, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby, mother of King Henry VII, died in the Deanery of Westminster Abbey, age 66/68.“Margaret was one of the last survivors of her generation, seen by many as a relic from an England that had been left behind, even she could not cheat death.She left John Fisher, the person she trusted most after her own son, as the chief of her executors. It was left to him and the other executors to arrange Margaret’s grand funeral after her death, and Fisher himself preached her funeral sermon, praising the woman who had done so much for him.Her young servant Henry Parker in his old age extolled the virtues of his former employer, informing her great-granddaughter, Queen Mary, that ‘this precious Margareyte is past from this worlde, not as other floures be that to day be fayre, and to morowe withered and drye, but this oure fayre floure as long as the sea hath fyshes, and the skye twinkling starres, untyll the sounde of the last trompet shall call all creature to judgment, her fame, her honour, her liberalitye, her prudence, her chastytye, and her excellent verture shall be comendyd foreuer’. Margaret was genuinely loved and admired by those who knew her.Fortune’s Wheel was both kind and sometimes unkind to Margaret: the daughter of a probable suicide, the greatest heiress in England, divorced at ten, married to the King’s half-brother at twelve, a widow at thirteen, a mother at thirteen, twice more a widow, a plotter, a prisoner, the mother of a king, most of all, Margaret Beaufort can be remembered as the mother of the great Tudor dynasty.”—Elizabeth Norton [Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty] -- source link
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