Marguerite d'Anjou Queen of England

1430 - 1482  (52 years)

• Name	Marguerite d'Anjou Queen of England  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	23 Mar 1430	Nancy, év. Toul, Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France
  Gender	Female
  Military	22 May 1455
  	Her Lancastrian army is defeated by Richard Plantagenêt Duke of York at the First Battle of St. Albans and King Henry is taken prisoner
  Military	30 Dec 1460
  	Henry Beaufort, Duke of Sommerset (Lancastrian), defeated Richard of York and Sir Richard de Neville, Earl of Salisbury, at the Battle of Wakefield
  Military	31 Dec 1460
  	Richard Plantagenêt, Duke of York, and Sir Richard de Neville, Earl of Salisbury, were both beheaded at York
  Military	17 Feb 1461
  	Defeated Richard de Neville, Earl of Warwick, at the Second Battle of St. Albans and recovered custody of her husband
  Military	29 Mar 1461
  	Defeated at the Battle of Towton (fled to Scotland) by Edward IV Plantagenêt who proclaimed himself king
  Occupation	3 Oct 1470
  	Her husband Henry VI is briefly restored to the throne by Richard de Neville, Earl of Warwick
  Military	14 Apr 1471
  	Richard de Neville, Earl of Warwick, was defeated by Edward IV Plantagenêt at the Battle of Barnet
  Military	4 May 1471
  	Forced to lead her own army and defeated at the Battle of Tewkesbury where her son was killed in action
  Occupation	1475
  	Sent first to Wallingford Castle and then to the Tower of London, she was eventually ransomed by King Louis XI of France
  Died	25 Aug 1482	Château de Dampierre, Aube, Champagne, France
  Buried	Angers, Anjou (Maine-et-Loire), France
  Person ID	I4479	Godbout
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017

  
  

  Father	René d'Anjou,   b. 1409,   d. 17 Jul 1480, Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France  (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Isabelle de Lorraine,   b. Abt 1410,   d. 28 Feb 1452, Angers, Anjou (Maine-et-Loire), France  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Married	24 Oct 1420
  Family ID	F5142	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry VI Plantagenêt King of England,   b. 6 Dec 1421, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England ,   d. 21 May 1471, Tower of London, Middlesex, England  (Age 49 years)
  Married	22 Apr 1445	Tichfield, Hampshire, England
  Children	1. Edward Plantagenêt of Wales,   b. 13 Oct 1453, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 4 May 1471, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England  (Age 17 years)
  Last Modified	18 Apr 2017
  Family ID	F2268	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume III, p. 439 & Vol. V, p. 737 (chart). [S628] Dictionnaire de la noblesse, seconde et troisième éditions, François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois, (La Veuve Duchesne, libraire, Antoine Boudet, l'auteur, rue Saint-André-des-Arcs, Schlésinger frères, Paris, 1770-1778), Tome 9, p. 139. [S726] Essai sur l'histoire des comtes souverains de Provence, Joseph Amédée Xavier Boisson de La Salle, (G. Mouret, Imprimeur du Roi, 2ème édition, Aix-en-Provence, 1820), 328.