The English royal household ordinances document the important role tapestries played in Tudor court ceremony. This paper re-examines one specific aspect of the 1493 ordinances: whether or not Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VH, dictated the textile practices surrounding royal childbirth. Once widely...
Margaret Beaufort, a descendant and passionately loyal supporter of the House of Lancaster, was married, while still a child of twelve, to the king’s half-brother Edmund Tudor, as a way of endowing him with her enormous fortune and lands. Her husband died of plague leaving her a thirteen...
King Edward III of England married Philippa of Hainault → John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster married Katherine Swynford → John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset married Margaret Holland → John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset married Margaret Beauchamp → Margaret Beaufort married Edmund Tudor, 1st Ear...
The English royal household ordinances document the important role tapestries played in Tudor court ceremony. This paper re-examines one specific aspect of the 1493 ordinances: whether or not Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII, dictated the textile practices surrounding royal childbirth. Once ...