Margaret Beaufort

Standard Name: Beaufort, Margaret
Used Form: Margaret Richmond
Used Form: Lady Margaret Beaufort
Used Form: Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Used Form: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby
Used Form: Margaret Tudor, Countess of Richmond and Derby

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Cicely Hamilton
The pageant required more than fifty actresses, only three of whom had speaking parts, to portray famous women from history (not all of them remembered today). In the initial, Scala production, the only speaking role...
Textual Production Katherine Parr
Fisher had been Bishop of Rochester when he incurred Henry's wrath for opposing his first divorce, and was executed on 22 June 1535. He was regarded by the Catholic Church as a saint and martyr...

Timeline

1502
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby (also known as Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of the future Henry VII ), endowed the Regius Professorship of Divinity at Cambridge University.
1505
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed Christ's College, Cambridge.
1511
Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , endowed St John's College, Cambridge.
4 June 1878
Lady Margaret Hall , a women's college at Oxford University named after Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby , was founded.