Historical portraits (1909) (14580011767)

Identifier: historicalportra00walk (find matches)
Title: Historical portraits ..
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Walker, Emery, Sir, 1851-1933 Fletcher, C. R. L. (Charles Robert Leslie), 1857-1934 Butler, H. B. (Harold Beresford), 1883-1951
Subjects: Portrait painting
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon press
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto



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n the marriagecontract to terms surrendering some of the fortresses which Englandstill held in France. In 1445 she crossed the Channel and wasmarried to Henry at Titchfield. Once in England, though onlyfifteen years old, she became a violent partisan of Suffolk andBeaufort against Gloucester and the war party; when these weregone two successive Dukes of Somerset became her favourites,and the policy of the Court, against the Duke of York, becameher policy. Her only child, Prince Edward of Lancaster, wasborn in 1453, ^^ ^^^ very time when her husband was suffering fromhis first mental and bodily collapse. She would never agree tothe compromises and peaces which Henry was, on more than oneoccasion, ready to conclude with the Yorkists, When Margaretgot the upper hand in the field she used her victory withoutmercy, and understood how to pack a Parliament which attaintedher enemies wholesale. After Henrys defeat at Northampton shewas found wandering on the borders of Wales, and was at least
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