Margaret of Anjou: A Gallery of Contemporary Images


Image from a manuscript presented to Margaret by John Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, at about the time of her wedding. From Wikimedia Commons.

 

Image of Margaret from the Guild Book of the London Skinners' Fraternity of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, 1475. (Note that Margaret joined the fraternity when she was still a prisoner of Edward IV.) The lady on the left is possibly Katherine Vaux, Margaret's longtime companion, who also joined the Skinners' Fraternity. From Wikimedia Commons.

 

 

Signature from letter written by Margaret to Charles VII on December 17, 1445. From "Original Documents Preserved in the National Library at Paris," by Mrs. Everett Green in The Archaeological Journal, vol. 7, 1850. Margaret was 15 when this letter was written; it contains her promise to help influence Henry to cede Maine.

 

 

Signature from receipt given by Margaret to Louis XI in February 1481. From Lives of the Queens of England by Agnes Strickland.

 

 

Medallion of Margaret of Anjou by Pietro da Milano. Made in 1463-1464 during Margaret's exile in France. From L. Forrer,                 A Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, vol. 4, 1909

 

 

Margaret at prayer as depicted in her prayer roll, kept at the Bodleian Library as Jesus College Oxford MS 124. A black-and-white reproduction of Margaret's portrait, from which the image here is taken, was reprinted in 1851 in The Archaeological Journal.

 

 

 

 

Image from Vigiles de Charles VII by Martial d'Auvergne. From Wikimedia Commons.

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