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Lady Margaret Beaufort

1443 - 1509

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Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: BOH-fərt or BEW-fərt; 31 May 1443 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. A descendant of King Edward III, Lady Margaret passed a disputed claim to the English throne to her son, Henry Tudor. Capitalising on the political upheaval of the period, she actively manoeuvred to secure the crown for her son. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lady Margaret Beaufort has received more than 3,946,252 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Lady Margaret Beaufort is the 3,292nd most popular politician (down from 3,185th in 2019), the 745th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 739th in 2019) and the 134th most popular British Politician.

Lady Margaret Beaufort was most famous for being the mother of King Henry VII, who ended the Wars of the Roses and united the House of Lancaster and House of York. She was also an influential figure in the Christian church.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lady Margaret Beaufort ranks 3,292 out of 15,577. Before her are William II of Holland, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Cordell Hull, Henry II, Count of Champagne, Gottlob Berger, and Aleksandar Ranković. After her are Otto I, Duke of Saxony, Yasuo Fukuda, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, and Joseph Kasa-Vubu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1443, Lady Margaret Beaufort ranks 4. Before her are Pope Julius II, Matthias Corvinus, and Donato Bramante. After her are Albert III, Duke of Saxony, Rodolphus Agricola, Girolamo Riario, Askia Mohammad I, Magdalena of France, Piero del Pollaiolo, Pedro Arias Dávila, and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1509, Lady Margaret Beaufort ranks 3. Before her are Henry VII of England and Caterina Sforza. After her are Bernt Notke, João da Nova, Shen Zhou, Adam Kraft, and John I, Count Palatine of Simmern.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lady Margaret Beaufort ranks 745 out of 7,765. Before her are Pat Hitchcock (1928), Frederick Griffith (1879), Margaret Rutherford (1892), Harry Kroto (1939), Derek Jacobi (1938), and Bruce Chatwin (1940). After her are Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), Chris Rea (1951), Ben Jonson (1572), David J. Thouless (1934), and John Frederic Daniell (1790).

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Among POLITICIANS In United Kingdom

Among politicians born in United Kingdom, Lady Margaret Beaufort ranks 134. Before her are Margaret of York (1446), John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924), James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell (1534), Robert III of Scotland (1330), Gordon Brown (1951), and Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519). After her are Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), John Balliol (1249), James Macpherson (1736), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850), and David Cameron (1966).

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