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Margaret Beaufort Biography

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BEAUFORT, or MARGARET, Countess of Richmond and Derby (1441-1509). She was the daughter of the first Duke of Somerset and became the wife of the Earl of Richmond (half-brother of Henry VI) and by him mother of Henry VII of England. Left a widow, she was successively wife of Sir Henry Stafford and of Thomas, Lord Stanley, afterward the Earl of Derby. She endowed Christ's and St. John's colleges at Cambridge. Consult Halsted, Life of Margaret, Countess of Richmond (1839), and Cooper's Memoir, edited by Mayor (1874).

The New International Encyclopaedia Vol III. (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 19.