Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou’s Coronation

On May 30, 1445, Margaret of Anjou was crowned at Westminster Abbey by John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury. Margaret had turned fifteen just two months before. Henry VI and Margaret had married on April 22, 1445, at Titchfield Abbey. Since then, Margaret had been making a leisurely journey toward London, during which she was entertained

Margaret of Anjou’s Coronation Read More »

Ten Rules for Depicting Margaret of Anjou in Historical Fiction

Although this very blogger has propagated ten rules for writing fiction about Richard III (which, I am pleased to say, continue to be followed), and Kathryn has provided us with her excellent rules for writing about Edward II and Isabella, no one seems to have provided guidance for depicting Margaret of Anjou in historical fiction.

Ten Rules for Depicting Margaret of Anjou in Historical Fiction Read More »

Margaret of Anjou’s Last Days: Her Dogs and Her Burial

While doing Monday’s post, I wandered inadvertently into a rabbit hole of research and spent pretty much the whole day there. Here’s the result. As I mentioned a few posts ago, Louis XI, who as a condition of ransoming Margaret of Anjou from the English had forced her to sign over all of her inheritance

Margaret of Anjou’s Last Days: Her Dogs and Her Burial Read More »

So What Did Margaret of Anjou Look Like?

Though contemporaries had a great deal to say about Margaret of Anjou, complimentary and otherwise, scarcely anyone troubled to write about such a mundane detail as her personal appearance. The most detailed description is a secondhand one, which appears in a letter from Raffaelo De Negra to Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan, dated October

So What Did Margaret of Anjou Look Like? Read More »

A Happy Anniversary to Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou

On April 22, 1445, fifteen-year-old Margaret of Anjou married twenty-three-year-old Henry VI at Titchfield Abbey. Margaret and Henry had been formally betrothed a year before, on May 24, 1444, at Tours, with William de la Pole, then the Earl of Suffolk, standing proxy for the king. Suffolk had arranged the marriage in exchange for a

A Happy Anniversary to Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou Read More »

Scroll to Top
Scroll to Top