manticoreimaginary: WOMEN OF HISTORY | QUEEN MARGUERITE D'ANJOU (23 March 1430 – 25 August 148
manticoreimaginary:WOMEN OF HISTORY | QUEEN MARGUERITE D'ANJOU (23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) (Gillian Anderson)French-born Margaret married Henry VI and became queen consort of England at the age of fifteen, and was even at that age strong-willed, passionate, and aware that her duty as queen was to protect the interests of the crown at all costs. Henry was not a successful king, though, and had suffered mental problems his whole life that would only grow worse as time went on, leaving Margaret in true control of the country for much of the time. (Both her mother - Duchess Isabella of Lorraine - and grandmother -Yolande of Aragon - had been forceful figures in their own right and Margaret perhaps inherited much of her spirit from them.)Margaret was vastly unpopular with the people of England, and was one of the key figures in the War of the Roses. When it seemed her husband’s place was being threatened it was she who called for the Great Council that would spark the whole conflict, and then led the Lancastrian faction. She had a great love of learning, and was the patron of the Queens’ College at Cambridge University. -- source link
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