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Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509)

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de la Pole, Tudor, Stafford, Stanley

Born / Died

Birth Date: 1443-05-31
Death Date: 1509-06-29

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Pole, John de la (1442 - 1492)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: by 1450-2-7
    Union ended: exactly 1453-3-24
    Note: Marriage contract 1450; contract dissolved 1453. Margaret never recognized de la Pole as her husband
  2. Tudor, Edmund (1430 - 1456)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: ca. 1455-5
    Union ended: exactly 1456
  3. Stafford, Henry ( - 1471)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: exactly 1458-1
    Union ended: exactly
  4. Stanley, Thomas (1433 - 1504)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: by 1472-6-12
    Union ended: exactly 1499
    Note: Margaret moved to Collyweston and took a vow of chastity

Offspring

Titles

  • Duchess of Suffolk
    Assumed: 1449/50-01-28 (married between this date & 7 Feb. 1449/50)
    Vacated: 1452/3-03-24 (date marriage dissolved)
  • Countess of Richmond
    Assumed: 1455 (date of 2nd marriage)
    Vacated: 1509-05-29
  • Countess of Derby
    Assumed: 1473-10 (date of 4th marriage)
    Vacated: 1509-06-29

Details of Offices

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Woking Manor, Surrey
    Inherited from paternal grandmother
  • Lamphey, Pembrokeshire
    Acquired: 1455
    Divested: 1457
    Residence of 2nd husband
  • Coldharbour, London (city-county)
    Acquired: 1470
    Granted; chief London residence
  • Lathom House, Lancashire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1472
    Residence of 4th husband
  • Knowsley Hall, Lancashire
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1472
    Residence of 4th husband

Lands

  • Devon: Dartington Hall & Manor
    Acquired: 1487-03
    Divested: 1509
    Grant for life
  • Dorset: Canford, Corfe and Poole
  • Lincolnshire: Deeping St. James, Deeping St. Nicholas, Market Deeping, West Deeping

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire King's Mother's Entertainer/s
Performance - Booth Hall, Shrewsbury, Shropshire King's Mother's Entertainers
Performance - New Romney (Unknown), New Romney, Kent King's Mother's Minstrel/s
Performance - Dover (Unknown), Dover, Kent King's Mother's Minstrels
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex King's Mother's Minstrels
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset King's Mother's Minstrels
Performance - Town Hall, Bridgwater, Somerset King's Mother's Minstrels
Performance - Rye (Unknown), Rye, Sussex King's Mother's Minstrels
Performance - Guildhall, Sandwich, Kent King's Mother's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
King's Mother's Entertainer/s Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Entertainers Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrels Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
King's Mother's Minstrel/s Beaufort, Margaret (1443 - 1509) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Knowsley Hall Lancashire Private Residence
Lathom House Lancashire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.