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the-busy-ghost · 5 years ago

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Thing I realised this morning- John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset and his sister Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, who may have been twins though I need to look into that further, both died “In mysterious circumstances” while under pressure in 1444-1445

The cause of their older brother Henry’s death is also a bit of a mystery but that may just have been the fortunes of the Hundred Years’ War

#Joan Beaufort #John Beaufort Duke of Somerset #An unfortunate family nonetheleas #Edmund Beaufort met a sticky end too and Thomas didn’t live very long #the Beauforts #The family connections they made are always interesting though #Wish Margaret Beaufort had met some of her book-loving cousins on her aunt’s side- feel she might have got along with some of the girls #Though there would have been quite the age gap between her and the eldest Stewart sisters #Margaret and Isabella were almost twenty years older and Eleanor- the other one of the six whose literary tastes are known- still ten years #Margaret Beaufort would have been closer in age to their younger half-brothers- the earls of Buchan and Atholl and the bishop of Moray #That said I’ve always found it mildly interesting that Margaret’s son Henry Tudor spent part of his Breton exile at the castle of Suscinio #Which was the dower property of Isabella Stewart Duchess of Brittany and the residence where she spent much of her time #Possibly coincidence #But then these things do happen- witness the York brothers hanging out in exile at the court of Charles the Bold #only a year before James III’s fugitive sister and her husband also turned up there- Charles the Bold being her mother’s close cousin #Margaret of York was supposedly godparent to Mary Stewart’s two children #And Alexander Stewart Duke of Albany invaded Scotland in the company of the future Richard III and was later killed by the future Louis XII #It was a small world for European nobility

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