Posted By Claire on June 29, 2010
Lady Margaret Beaufort
On this day in history, 29th June 1509, the matriarch of the House of Tudor, Lady Margaret Beaufort, died at the age of 66, a great age for a Tudor.
Margaret died just four days after enjoying the coronation celebrations of her grandson, Henry VIII, and Henry Parker, Lord Morley, who acted as her cupbearer at the coronation ceremonies, reported that “she took her infirmity with eating of a cygnet”. His grandmother’s death, just two months after his father’s death, was a blow to the new, young king and David Starkey points out that:-
“In less than two months, Henry had lost the two dominant figures of his youth: his father and his grandmother. He was now not only king but paterfamilias and undisputed head of his family. And all this at the age of only eighteen.”
The woman who had been matriarch of the Tudor court and who had had such a powerful influence on English history was gone.
Read more: http://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/5849/lady-margaret-beaufort/#ixzz2FP7zlkk2
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